What needs washing off a house in Park Lane Estates is not really dirt. Abrasive grit worked into stucco on the elevations facing open foothills ground.
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These houses were oriented to their views, which means the largest wall surfaces face out across open terrain — straight into the afternoon wind carrying granitic grit. That grit works into stucco texture rather than resting on it, building a gritty tan film on the west and north elevations. Soft-washing at low pressure with solution dwell is what lifts it; a pressure wand on porous stucco drives water behind the finish and does damage you pay for later.
Wind-driven decomposed granite does not simply rest on a wall — on stucco and stone it works into the texture, and on the west and north elevations that take the afternoon wind it builds a gritty tan film that a garden hose will not lift. The temptation is pressure, and pressure is exactly wrong: stucco is porous and a wand held too close drives water behind the finish. We soft-wash at $0.18 per square foot, which means low pressure and dwell time doing the work instead of force.
Fiber cement, LP-style siding and stucco all hold up well to weather and poorly to a pressure wand. On a foothills lot the damage compounds: you are driving abrasive grit into the surface at the same time you are forcing water behind it. Soft-washing applies the solution, lets it work, and rinses with low pressure. It takes longer and it is the only method that leaves the wall intact. Anyone quoting a pressure wash on stucco out here is quoting a repair for you later.
House washing is $0.18 per square foot on a soft-wash setting — low pressure with solution dwell doing the work, which is the right method for stucco, fiber cement, LP-style siding, painted lap and brick alike. Pressure washing at $0.20 per square foot is for flatwork only: driveways, patios and walkways, never siding. Seventeen individually designed customs means no standard quote — we count the house in front of us.
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Usually the west and north elevations that take the wind, not all four. We will walk it and quote the walls that need it rather than charging for square footage that is already clean.
It is the safe option — that is the point of it. Soft-washing uses low pressure and lets the solution do the work, so nothing is driven behind a lap or into stucco. What is not safe is a pressure wand on siding, which forces water behind the surface where it swells hardboard and rots sheathing out of sight.
Kill it. Green and black growth on a shaded wall has a root structure in the surface, so blasting the visible layer off means it returns within weeks from what is left. The soft-wash solution treats the growth itself, which is why it stays clean for a season rather than a fortnight.
We rinse plantings before and after and keep the solution off anything sensitive. Tell us about anything you are particularly protective of at the quote — a specialty plant, a new bed, koi in a pond — and we will plan around it rather than working it out on the day.
Yes — Eagle is one of our nine Treasure Valley cities and we run it as a regular route rather than a stretch call, from the Chinden edge up into the foothills. Call or text (208) 453-6760 and we will tell you the next open slot.
Our 7-Day Rain Guarantee covers it. Rain on a clean surface is largely harmless — it is the dust it lands on that spots. If a storm genuinely undoes the work inside seven days, we come back out.
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