House Washing in Ten Mile Crossing, Meridian

The siding out here, and what it can take

Walk the residential streets off Vanguard Way and Cortona Way and it's the same envelope over and over: vinyl lap siding on the main body, a stone or stucco wainscot at the base, and painted hardie trim around windows and gables on the newer elevations. That combination decides how a wash goes. Vinyl cleans up readily with a low-pressure soft wash. Stone veneer and stucco hold dirt down in the texture and need more dwell time, not more pressure - put a pressure tip on stucco and you'll take the finish coat off with the dirt. Painted hardie is durable but it chalks in the sun like any painted surface. We change the mix and the dwell per surface rather than running one setting around the whole house and hoping.

The sprinkler line across the bottom of the wall

The most common call we get out here isn't general dirt, it's the tan band across the bottom two or three feet of siding. That's pressurized irrigation - untreated canal water off the Boise River, loaded with silt and minerals, thrown at the wall by heads that were aimed at grass and drifted or got bumped by a mower. It dries in the sun into a gritty haze that rain won't touch. A soft wash lifts the silt and the organic side of it. The mineral deposit sometimes needs a second pass with a dedicated treatment, and on a textured stucco wainscot a full season of daily overspray can leave a faint shadow even after it's clean. Turning that head or dropping the arc a few feet is the only thing that keeps it from coming back by August.

North-wall algae in the gap between houses

Lots in these phases are tight - roughly ten to fifteen feet between houses - and there are no mature trees yet, so the only real shade on the property is the corridor between your north wall and your neighbor's south wall. That gap stays damp. Sprinkler mist drifts in, sun never dries it out, and by the second or third summer you get the green-going-black film people read as dirt. It's algae. Rinsing or blasting it knocks off the visible layer and it's back within weeks, because the growth is still down in the surface texture. A soft wash with the right cleaner kills it rather than just moving it, which is why a treated north wall holds for a season instead of a month. It's usually the wall that needs washing most and the one nobody walks past.

Sun-side chalking, and what a wash will not fix

South and west elevations here take the full afternoon with nothing shading them. Over a few years that UV oxidizes vinyl and painted hardie into a fine chalk - run your hand down the wall and your palm comes back white. Washing removes that loose chalk and the house looks dramatically better, but be clear on what happened: we took off an oxidized layer, we did not put pigment back. If the siding has faded unevenly, it will still be faded when it's clean, just clean. Most homes at Ten Mile Crossing are too new for this to be bad, but the earliest phases are starting to show it on west walls. If yours is chalked far enough that a wash won't get you the look you want, we'll say so instead of taking the job.

How we wash it, and what it costs

House washing here runs $0.18 a square foot, soft wash, safe on vinyl, stucco, hardie and brick. Soft wash means the cleaning solution and dwell time do the work at low pressure. Pressure is what forces water up behind lap siding and under a stucco weep screed, and it's why some houses get washed once and then have a moisture problem in the wall. We rinse the whole envelope, shaded north side included. We're locally owned and fully insured, founded in 2025 by Hunter Stevens and Ethan Seusy, with 115+ Google reviews at 4.9 stars, and there's a 7-Day Rain Guarantee on the work. Monthly and Quarterly memberships are available with no contract - but most houses here only want washing once a year, and we'll tell you if a membership doesn't pencil out for you.