Lexington Hills went up in Eagle's mid-2000s building wave, which means broom-finish gray concrete drives poured twenty-odd years ago and pressurized canal irrigation throwing iron-heavy water across them every summer. The orange fan out from your sprinkler head isn't dirt. That distinction changes what we bring, and what we can honestly promise.
Most Lexington Hills driveways are standard broom-finish gray concrete poured with the houses in the mid-2000s and 2010s, not the stamped work, exposed aggregate, or paver drives you find on newer Eagle estate lots. That matters for how we wash. Broom finish has a directional texture: the ridges hold dirt and the valleys hold water, so a wand held too close or dragged across the grain leaves stripes that never blend back out. We run a surface cleaner at controlled pressure with the broom lines, then rinse the same direction. Twenty-year-old concrete has also lost some of its cream layer to freeze-thaw cycles, which means it takes color back unevenly if you blast it. Slower and lower leaves a better-looking slab than turning the pressure up ever will.
The orange-brown fans radiating out from your sprinkler heads are iron out of the pressurized irrigation water, the same untreated canal supply nearly every Eagle subdivision runs on instead of treated culinary water. That is not dirt, and it is not coming off with pressure. We have seen homeowners wear a soft, pitted spot into their own driveway trying. Rust in concrete is a chemical stain sitting down in the pores, and it takes an oxalic-acid based remover, dwell time, and a full rinse. Pressure alone just strips the dirt off the top of the stain and makes the orange look brighter than it did before. Before we start, we will tell you which of the two you have. The only permanent fix is adjusting the heads so they stop throwing onto the slab.
The subdivision trees planted with these houses are twenty-plus years old now, and the north and east sides of a Lexington Hills lot sit in shade most of the winter. That is where the green-black film shows up: the patio slab behind the house, the walkway along the north fence line, and the bottom couple feet of siding where a downspout splashes. That growth is biological, not staining, so it comes off with a soft-wash detergent and a low-pressure rinse instead of brute force. Blasting it knocks the visible layer off but leaves the roots in the pores, and it returns in weeks rather than seasons. A sun-baked south-facing driveway on the same lot usually needs nothing more than dirt, pollen, and tire marks pulled off.
Lexington Hills has the shared concrete every mid-2000s subdivision has: sidewalk running the full frontage of each lot, mailbox cluster pads, and the walkway strips between homes. Where homeowner responsibility ends and the association's begins is not written the same way in every Eagle subdivision, so read your CC&Rs before assuming the HOA is washing the sidewalk in front of your house. In most neighborhoods like this one it isn't, and that strip is the one piece of concrete every visitor and every neighbor actually walks on. Adding frontage sidewalk to a driveway job is easy and usually a small amount of square footage next to the drive itself. If a board wants the whole common walkway loop bid at once, we quote it the same way, by the square foot.
Driveways, patios, and walkways run $0.20 per square foot, so a typical Lexington Hills two-car drive around 600 square feet lands near $120, and adding a frontage sidewalk or back patio moves it modestly. Rust treatment where irrigation water has stained the slab gets quoted separately, because it is a different chemical and a different amount of labor, and we would rather show you that number than bury it in a total. No contract. Monthly and quarterly memberships are there if you want concrete handled on a schedule alongside window work, and every job carries our 7-Day Rain Guarantee. Same-day and next-day slots open regularly in this part of Eagle. Reflekt is locally owned, fully insured, and sitting at 4.9 stars across 115+ Google reviews.
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No. Those stains come from iron in the pressurized irrigation water and they sit inside the concrete pores, not on top. Washing removes the dirt covering them, which usually makes the orange look worse before treatment. Rust needs an oxalic-acid remover with dwell time. We quote that separately and tell you up front how much of it we expect to lift, because heavy long-term staining rarely comes out completely.
It can, and we see it. Concrete this age has lost cream layer to freeze-thaw, so a narrow wand held close will etch it and leave permanent stripes across the broom finish. We use a surface cleaner at controlled pressure moving with the broom grain, plus detergent to do the work chemically instead of mechanically. If a slab is already spalling or has exposed aggregate showing through, we will point it out before we wash it.
Fresh oil usually lifts with a degreaser and hot rinse. Oil that has been soaking into unsealed broom-finish concrete for years has migrated down into the slab, and washing pulls out the surface portion while a shadow stays. We will get it noticeably lighter and be straight with you about whether it will disappear. A driveway that has never been sealed holds stains far more readily than one that has.
Check your CC&Rs, because it varies across Eagle subdivisions. In most neighborhoods built in this era the frontage sidewalk is the homeowner's to maintain even though it looks like common area. It is inexpensive to add to a driveway wash since the square footage is small. If your board wants the mailbox pads and connecting walkways done together, we bid that at the same $0.20 per square foot.
Yes, a pressure washing job runs off your outside hose bib, and we will need one working spigot on the driveway side of the house. Concrete work uses standard soft-wash and pressure methods with municipal or house water, not the deionized water we run for windows. Deionized water is for glass, where mineral spotting is the whole problem. On concrete it would be an expensive way to accomplish nothing.
A south-facing driveway usually looks right for two to three years between washes. Shaded north-side patios and walkways under mature subdivision trees green up much faster, often annually. If your only complaint is sprinkler rust, washing on a schedule will not solve it, so fix the head angle first. We would rather tell you to wait a season than sell you a job you do not need yet.
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