House Washing in Ridgecrest, Nampa, Idaho

Hardboard and stucco are the reason we soft wash, not pressure wash

Walk a Ridgecrest street and you'll see two envelopes over and over: LP-style hardboard lap with painted trim, and stucco or synthetic stucco on the larger golf-course elevations. Neither one takes pressure. Hardboard swells and delaminates at the butt joints and the bottom course once you drive water behind it, and once a board wicks it never dries flat again. Stucco is worse in a different way — a tight tip will cut sand out of the finish coat and leave a permanent fan-shaped scar you only see when the wall dries. So we soft wash: low pressure, a cleaning solution that does the work chemically, and a rinse that runs down the wall instead of into it. Same approach on the brick wainscot and the cedar accents in the older sections.

The bottom three feet is sprinkler staining, not dirt

The band of orange-brown discoloration on the lower course of siding here is not road grime. It's what the pressurized irrigation leaves behind. These subdivisions run untreated canal water off the Pioneer and Nampa & Meridian lines, and it carries both silt and iron. Every zone that throws against the house lays down another coat, and the sun bakes it in. Plain soap and low pressure will lift the silt but leave the iron, so the wall comes out clean and the rust shadow stays. That band needs a separate acid or oxalic treatment applied to the stained area and rinsed — it is a different step, not a harder rinse. If we quote your house and the lower band is iron, we'll tell you before we start and price it as its own line.

North walls grow algae, south and west walls chalk — two different problems

On the same house we usually find two things that look similar and are not. The north and shaded east walls, especially where a fence line or mature landscaping blocks morning sun, grow a green-black algae film. That comes off with the soft wash and stays off for a couple of seasons. The south and west walls take direct Treasure Valley sun all summer, and on paint that's ten or fifteen years old the binder breaks down and the pigment powders — that's chalking. Rub a dry finger on it and it comes away colored. Washing pulls the loose chalk off and the wall looks noticeably better, but it will keep chalking until the siding is repainted. We'll say that out loud rather than sell you a wash that can't hold.

What $0.18 a square foot covers on a Ridgecrest house

Soft washing runs $0.18 per square foot of wall, and it's safe on every siding out here — hardboard, stucco, vinyl, brick, cedar. That includes the walls, the soffit and fascia, and the trim, plus wetting down the beds and rinsing the landscaping after. On the golf-course lots we walk the fairway-facing elevation first, since that side takes the most overspray and usually reads worst. Two-story elevations don't change the number. We're fully insured, locally owned, and Hunter Stevens and Ethan Seusy started the company here in 2025. Same-day and next-day slots are usually open, and the 7-Day Rain Guarantee covers you if weather rolls in behind us. If you want windows done the same visit, say so — it's cheaper to have us there once.

How often it's actually worth doing out here

Most Ridgecrest homes want a wash every other year, not annually. The exception is a house with heavy shade on the north side or sprinkler heads throwing directly at the wall — that side comes back within a season and is worth a spot wash on its own. If your siding still looks even in full sun and there's no green fuzz where you rub the north wall, you can wait, and we'll tell you that on the estimate rather than book you. Our Monthly and Quarterly memberships exist mainly for glass; house washing usually sits better as a scheduled visit every eighteen to twenty-four months. No contract either way, and cancel whenever you want.