You take good care of your home, so when what appears to be organic growth such as mildew and black mold starts growing on your home, it can be concerning. The good news is that it’s not likely either of these, and 214 pressure washing can provide a quick and safe solution.

What is organic growth?

Organic growth starts as fungus from pollen spores. Moss, lichens, and molds find this fungus to be a ready food source and attach on. This type of mold is generally not the kind of black mold that brings respiratory problems or harm to your family. It’s just your everyday run-of-the-mill type of mold. Either way, it’s on your home, and you don’t want it there. It makes your home look dingy and can also cause insurance companies to question your home’s condition. Given enough time, it can eventually lead to rot. You are a responsible homeowner and don’t need that type of concern, especially when there is an easy fix.

How to remove organic growth?

When removing organic growth from your home through pressure-washing, there are several important things to keep in mind.

Where is the growth?

Organic growth can be hidden behind shrubbery, under siding or shingles, or in plain sight. It’s important to take special care when removing mold and mildew to ensure other parts of your home or home’s surroundings are not damaged.

How to remove it safely?

The best way to remove this type of growth is with a precise combination of chlorinated chemicals and pressure washing that will remove the growth without causing damage to your home, home surroundings, family, or pets.

What is unseen?

While what you see can certainly be concerning enough, it’s important to treat your entire home when you notice organic growth to prevent any microscopic growth in progress. Annual pressure washing can remove the organic food source before it’s found by harmful lichen, moss, and mold.

When it comes to your home, family, and pets, it’s just not worth the risk to treat this growth removal as a DIY project. 214 Pressure Washing has the industry knowledge and experience to remove organic growth from your home safely. Your home is your haven. Let us help you keep it safe and looking its best.

Pressure washing is the process of restoring and cleaning all surfaces around and on residence, hospitals, medical buildings, retail shops and commercial businesses. It ensures cleanliness all year round. If you take a scrub brush to remove the growths, the cleanliness attained is not to perfection. There are many advantages of removing organic growth from your buildings.

Increase property value

Keeping the building clean and washing it reduces the growth of organic plants. Washing will increase the property value dramatically compared to letting them look neglected with the gains; for an apartment that is clean and attractive to tenants, the demand rate increases, raising your income.

Protecting your tenants

Algae, molds and dirt on the exterior surfaces are health hazards to be considered. The outer protects everyone inside from the element which also don’t leave without a mark. Removing them from parking and sidewalks help them from becoming a vast slip hazard when wet. Many people focus on building, not the walkable surfaces, not knowing they are also essential to keep clean.

Prevent repairs

The most unexpected importance of power washing for an apartment is prevention for the need for future maintenance. The growth that build-up can cause wood to rot faster hence encourage the formation of leaks. This activity helps your building look healthier in the long run if removed regularly.

Fresh and clean home to add paint on

Painting over the growths can be done but can lead to an ominous-looking paint job. It compromises the integrity of the job right from the root. Painting after you have washed makes the home or apartment last longer and look fantastic. Whether you are painting a small portion of your home or large, you should still consider it done to give a clean layer to add new paint too.

Seek professional services

For your home to look new and attractive, 214 Pressure Washing is here for you. We help you clean your apartment and also schedule your regular cleaning. If you are looking for expert power services, contact us contact us to ensure your surfaces are done beyond your expectation.

In many cities, rural areas and metropolitan areas, most people have not discovered the best way to remove graffiti. With some “troubled young people” looking for artistic ways to express themselves, public and private properties and a can of spray paint seem to come in handy.

In some places, graffiti is evidence of continuous vandalism, while in others, efforts are made to clean up walls, street furniture, and other buildings. If you are in the Dallas and Fort Worth area, 214 Pressure Washing will offer you the best graffiti removal services by pressure washing.

Sandblasting

With regular authorization, graffiti can beautifully enrich a city or town. However, in most cases, writers violate the law and act stealthily, not sparing even the private buildings. Most organizations spend a lot of money and employ various graffiti removal tactics, most of which rarely do the trick. Sandblasting, however, is one of the best ways to get rid of unwanted graffiti.

Pressure washers produce a high-pressure jet that effortlessly gets rid of paint and ink. In other models, detergents and hot water are used when sandblasting to remove graffiti more easily. Sandblasting is faster than other traditional ways of removing graffiti and is remarkably effective. It does not damage the surfaces but leaves them looking better.

Discover 214 Pressure Washing

At 214 Pressure Washing, we focus on ensuring our clients’ satisfaction by effectively removing the toughest graffiti on your property. Whether you have graffiti on a commercial or residential property, you can count on us to be there when you call. We are flexible enough and will pressure wash your property at your most convenient time.

Our professional-grade equipment and knowledgeable staff are an excellent match for any graffiti artists vandalizing your property. If you are around the Dallas and Fort Worth area, contact us today for free quotes or visit our website to learn more about us. Check our social media page and visit our blog to get more information.

Do you have unsightly dirt and grime now that the winter is over? Snow collects dust from the atmosphere and when the snow melts it can leave dust on your car, home, and storage shed. When the dust settles, how do you plan to clean up behind the melted snow?  Pressure washing is a great way to virtually transform surfaces into a clean, tidy space again. Best of all, removing dirt also has health benefits. Keep reading more details below to find out why a professional routine pressure washing maintenance packages from 214 Pressure Washing are right for you.

Do I Really Need A Routine Pressure Washing Maintenance Package?

1. Save Money

Skimping on routine maintenance can cost you big-time later on! Routine pressure washing maintenance lets you keep a watchful eye of the condition of your surface areas. Instead of hiring a pressure washer when the dirt, mold, grime, etc. has accumulated (e.g. potentially costing more), routine pressure washing can ensure your cleanliness all year round.

2. Health & Safety

Pressure washing is a cleaning hack that’s healthy and keeps you and your home occupants safe. Your home can harbor pollutants that can impact your health. However, routine pressure washing maintenance can reduce allergens on the inside and outside of your home. An expert pressure washer can deliver routine maintenance that reaches the cracks and crevices that harbor harmful pollutants including mold, mildew, pollen, and more to maintain or improve your health.

3. Increased Value

The value of your home is based on upkeep, but also its appearance. Professional routine pressure washing maintenance will ensure the cleanliness of your home throughout the year. If you’re planning to sell your home, regular pressure washing provides one less task in preparation for closing on a deal.

At 214 Pressure Washing, we have proudly served Dallas, TX and surrounding areas for over 20+ years. Our professionals have extensive expertise in the following:

• concrete
• graffiti removal
• commercial
• low pressure washing

Why DIY? We provide state-of-the-art equipment that delivers professional results. Our customers can choose from low or high pressure washing with expert cleaning detergent. Don’t delay, contact us at 214 Pressure Washing today!

We pride ourselves in being the experts of clean.

Cast stone is a beautiful – and affordable – alternative to natural cut stone. This is why you see it so often in commercial spaces. However, while those rough grooves that mimic natural cut stone look great, they are also flawed. The more grooves and rough texture a building material has, the more it catches dirt and other residue. Even more problematic is the fact that cast stone, as a mimic made of a myriad of different materials, can be fragile to wash.

If you take a scrub brush to cast stone, you will likely get frustrated before the stone gets cleaned or damaged. Yet, as cast stone is fragile, if a pressure washer is used to clean it in untrained hands, then the side of your commercial space is likely to end up ruined. This type of stone doesn’t stand up well to high pressure, which may make you believe that pressure washing as a cleaning tool is ruled out, but you would be wrong.

Soft Washing Cast Stone

Not all pressure washing uses “pressure”. Instead, you will actually see a lot of pressure washing companies use a technique known as “soft” washing. A lower water pressure is used in conjunction with a cleaning solution in the water.

This harnesses the power and efficiency of pressure washing, but does so in a way that doesn’t harm more fragile building materials. It is something used on areas like roofing and windows, and it can be the perfect technique to clean dirty cast stone exteriors on your commercial building without causing any damage to the facade.

If you are a property manager whose properties are looking a little less than pristine, we can help. Contact us today to see what 214 Pressure Washing can do to help you get your commercial exteriors looking beautiful again.

Without taking advantage of the speed and efficiency of power washing, keeping the exterior of your home can take quite some effort. However, surely even with the help of a power washing company, not everything can be cleaned with it. In truth, power washing can help with a lot more than you think.

When it comes to power washing, here are areas of your home it can definitely help clean.

• The Siding — This is typically what homeowners think about when it comes to power washing. It is recommended that you have your home’s siding cleaned at least once per year to maintain appearance and prevent algae growth.
• The Driveway — As power washing can use penetrating, yet gentle water pressure, it can flush the dirty out of the pores of not only concrete driveways, but patios and any other concrete surface as well.
• The Windows — The water pressure of a power washer can be turned down, which also make them excellent tools for quickly cleaning windows. This also leaves them looking streak-free compared to spray bottle and cloth cleaning.
• The Roof — Your roof has the most contact with elements, and over time you may notice a streaked appearance manifests on it. This is algae growth that isn’t especially dangerous, but doesn’t look very good. Power washing, or rather a technique known as soft washing, will remove those streaks and leave a beautiful looking roof.
• The Deck — Finally, concrete patios aren’t the only surfaces that benefit from power washing. Your wooden deck can also be cleaned. This actually helps remove algae and other build up that may make it slippery when wet. By using less pressure, you need not worry about it stripping any paint or stain either.

Is your home looking a little less than perfect? Contact us today to see what we can do to get all of the above areas power washed and picture perfect.

One of the most common reactions after a power wash is that of surprise. It’s true, many surfaces look bafflingly clean afterward, but that also means it can be difficult to know whether your surfaces are dirty enough to need one in the first place. Here are some of the most easily overlooked surfaces on your house that may be in need of cleaning.

The Driveway

You walk (and drive) over it every day. It looks fine when you compare it to your neighbors’ driveways every time you step outside, but that’s why you may not have realized how much grime has built up over time. Seeing it so often means the gradual change to dirtyis almost unnoticeable as it continues to grow dirtier by the day. Typically, concrete driveways should look like a nice, uniform gray slab: if it looks more like a dark gray-brown shade or there are noticeable marks or light spots where the clean concrete shows through, it may be time to call up a professional to get it looking like new.

The Walls

It’s not very often that the walls of a house are looked at close enough to see how much dirt is on them. Most of the time, guests and passersby see it in all its glory: a house with exterior walls that look old, dark-stained, and “unclean” to put it simply. Of course, this is for the same reason as mentioned above. It’s just difficult to tell, especially if you’ve been spending this past year inside the house most of the time. Up close, you may notice dark mortar between bricks, dirt buildup between boards, or other signs your walls may need a dose of water.

The Roof

Why should you wash the roof when the sky does it for free? Well, though it may seem that way, rain is usually the reason it’s dirty in the first place. It does a good job washing off loose dirt, but the moisture it constantly leaves behind can cause algae and all sorts of things to grow on it. You may be tempted to get the job done yourself, but roofing material brings up a host of other considerations such as pressure, temperature, and even direction of the water flow. It’s best to leave it to the professionals when you start to notice the roof isn’t the same color it was a couple of years ago.

All these surfaces may look somewhat fine now, but with a quick call, we can leave them making your guests impressed and your neighbors jealous! Contact us today to find out how 214 Pressure Washing can make your Dallas/Fort Worth area home look good as new.

Most building surfaces that are found on exteriors can be safely power washed by a professional, but there still can be a few exceptions. It leads people to wonder what is safe to take a power washer to.

Can You Power Wash It?

Vinyl Siding

As a polymer, vinyl siding is resilient and a near perfect candidate for power washing.

Aluminum Siding

You may worry about a material like aluminum denting, and that can be a worry with too high of pressure. However, using the right pressure setting can make aluminum siding just as easy to clean as vinyl.

Concrete

As concrete has pores that can hold dirt, it can be difficult to clean without a power washer. However, too high of water pressure can also mark the concrete. So while water pressure flushes out those pores, the right amount of pressure needs to be used.

Stucco

As a softer exterior building material, stucco needs special care. Soft washing will need to be used, which is a low pressure wash with a cleanser. High pressure will damage stucco quickly.

Brick

Brick is complicated. It is porous like concrete, but high pressure can damage the mortar. As such, soft washing is often recommended for brick to preserve the grout.

Pavers

While you may think lower pressure would be the option on pavers to avoid the sand underlayment coming up through the joints, any pressure will cause that. If you do choose to power wash pavers, the joints will need to be refilled eventually.

Roofing

You should never use high pressure to clean a roof. However, roofing can be cleaned via soft washing that will remove algae streaks.

Windows

While high water pressure on glass should be avoided, windows are a good candidate for soft wash cleaning.

With the use of soft washing, many materials can be cleaned by a power washing company. If you have a dirty home, contact us today to see what 214 Pressure Washing can do to help.

While the Dallas-Fort Worth area isn’t exactly flush with rainfall, knowing your luck, you might schedule a power washing appointment for the one day that the rain does come down. However, unlike many other appointments, a rainy day may not necessarily mean you need to reschedule a power washing session.

Is There a Benefit to Power Washing in the Rain?

While obviously no one likes to work in the rain and technicians won’t work in thunderstorms where it may be dangerous, rain can only help the power washing process.

Reduced Drying Time

On rainy or even just overcast days, the drying time for the detergent-laced water used in power washing is greatly reduced. This means that it has more time to sit on the surface of your home and do its job. This can produce better results and may help the technician complete their work faster as they may need to make less passes.

Better Visibility

The immediate benefit to the power washing technician on rainy days is that there is no sun shining in their eyes and it is a little cooler out. However, overcast days also reduce shadows on the house so they can make sure that they get every last spot clean.

Will Rain Reschedule a Power Washing Appointment?

While a rainy day won’t necessarily stop a technician from doing their job, they may reschedule if the weather is going to be poor for a long period. Moments of scattered thunderstorms or heavy rain may result in the technician waiting in the truck to finish the job. However, if it is planned for multiple hours, they may have to reschedule your appointment.

Do you have a home or business that needs power washing? Contact us today to see what 214 Pressure Washing can do to get your buildings looking beautiful again in rain or shine.

For many homeowners, they don’t much see the point in power washing a home if they are just going to repaint it. However, a good power washing before painting a new layer of paint can be a real boom. Even if power washing isn’t stripping off the old paint, it is giving your a fresh canvas in its own way.

Removing Dirt and Grime From a Home With Power Washing

The big benefit that you get from power washing a home before you paint it is that you get a freshly clean home to add that paint to. Many homeowners have their homes power washed so they look better, but this time, you are doing it so your new paint job will look better and last longer.

When a home is power washed, you are having your home stripped of dirt, algae and mold growth. Certainly these things can all be painted over, but they can lead to a bad looking paint job. Furthermore, even if you can’t see what was painted over, it compromises the integrity of the paint job right from the root.

Even if you are just painting a portion of your home, like a garage door, you should still consider having it power washed in order to give yourself a clean layer to add beautiful new paint to. It will save you an hour of scrubbing and waiting for the area to dry as well as get the rest of your home clean as well without the need for a new paint job.

Do you have a home that is ready for repainting? Even if you aren’t getting ready to repaint a home, power washing can make your home look like new. Contact us today to see what 214 Pressure Washing can do to get all your exterior surfaces looking like great this year.