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Nothing will improve the appearance of your home more than a thorough pressure washing. Not only will it increase the beauty of your most expensive investment, it will increase the value.
When you are ready to sell your house and want to get every penny of its worth, it needs to look immaculate. First impressions are everything. Someone would not try and sell their car when it looks like they just went four wheeling with. Getting your car looking clean and sharp ads to its value and, your credibility in being a good owner and taking care of it. The same is for your home. When a potential home buyer is driving through your neighbourhood and sees all the great looking houses, they will feel comfortable with moving to that area, especially if they have kids. If one house, though, stands out by being covered in dirt, grime, mold, mildew, algae or even moss, the last house that they are going to want to buy is that one. Pressure washing that house will bring it up to the standards of the rest of the neighbourhood and thus, increasing its value.
Pressure washing the siding is the most important. Having the vinyl siding, aluminum siding, or wood siding, pressure washed will remove all the mold and mildew. Not only are these living organisms ugly, they are eating straight through the wall. Pressure washing is essential to maintaining the beauty and health of a house. No one will want to buy a house when the first thing that they have to do is spend more money to replace all the siding or worse, rebuild a wall or two.
Decks and fences also need to be pressure washed to maintain their appearance and worth. Please have a professional pressure washing service do this for you. Honestly, wood is not supposed to be pressure washed at all. Unless a person is trained and experienced with pressure washing, it is easy to destroy the wood. At most, 300-500 psi should be used on decks, fences, gazebos, pergolas, or anything you have that is wood. If someone puts an entire 3000 or 4000 pounds of force per square inch of water to wood, it forces the water into the wood and destroys the fibers. This is easy to see, especially on the soft wood, because the wood will be splitting, and have splinters and "fuzzies". Fuzzies are called such because the wood will have the appearance of a sweater with fuzzies. They can also come from using caustic cleaners. Don't do that either. Wood should be cleaned with low pressure washing and the right chemicals. Fuzzies are really easy to get rid of though. All you have to do is sand every square inch of wood that you have, or, are buying.' Again, first impressions. Who wants to buy a house that already needs weeks of extra work done to it? The purpose of pressure washing is to regain the just built' look, not the ready to tear down' look. So when you are selling a property, is important to have expert pressure washers do the work. Pressure washing is not expensive to have done and it will pay for itself many times over.
Also, some say that pressure washing your driveway is not important. Well, it's not, unless want it to look good. Again, first impressions are everything. All the concrete (driveway, walkway, patio, even the city owned curb) should be pressure washed. When your concrete is as white as a new shirt, that is impressive and, that is a selling point.
