Exterior Cleaning Services in Shorewood Hills

Shorewood Hills wood clapboard from the 1940s-1950s has original paint, original wood substrate, and decades-aged glazing putty around windows. Standard pressure-washing rinse drives water behind decorative window casings and through aged paint cracks, which causes paint failure and trapped moisture damage within one season. We hand-apply soft-wash chemistry around every window and trim element, mask carefully, and rinse at a careful angle from below to avoid driving water into vulnerable seams. The original paint and wood stay intact while the algae and mildew lift cleanly.

Faster than any other neighborhood in our service area. The elm and oak canopy along Lathrop Street, Harvey Street, and the University Avenue corridor drops leaves over a three-week window in October that completely fills standard 5-inch gutters end-to-end. We've seen freshly cleaned gutters re-fill in three weeks during peak drop. Twice-annual service is the practical minimum — mid-May for spring debris and early November for fall leaves — and some properties under the densest canopy benefit from a third interim visit in mid-September.

Yes — but never with pressure washing. Slate and clay tile roof systems use a mortar bedding that pressure washing damages, and the tiles themselves can crack or shift under impact. Our slate-roof moss service uses a hand-applied no-rinse SH solution calibrated to the roof pitch and moss density. The chemistry kills the moss over several days and natural weathering plus subsequent rain removes the dead biology gradually. The roof stays intact.

Yes — iron staining on stone retaining walls is a Shorewood Drive specialty. Lakefront properties with stone walls catch sprinkler overspray on a daily basis through summer, and well-water irrigation deposits iron into the stone face producing the orange-to-brown streaking visible on many walls. Our targeted oxalic-acid treatment dissolves the iron bond, and a gentle rinse flushes it cleanly. We typically pair iron treatment with the general soft-wash for a comprehensive Shorewood Drive cleaning.

Yes — we coordinate around UW-Madison construction and event traffic when needed. Game-day weekends and major campus construction phases (around Camp Randall, the Memorial Union, or Library Mall) can affect access to University Heights properties, and we schedule around them. Our crew is familiar with the residential streets behind the campus and we plan routes to minimize travel through congested areas.

Multi-level decks under hardwood canopy near Blackhawk Country Club accumulate tannin staining that requires extended surfactant contact time — not just a quick pre-treat. We apply a tannin-specific surfactant, dwell for 10-15 minutes, then pressure-rinse with hot water to flush the dissolved tannin. The deck color returns even on multi-year accumulation, and the wood or composite finish stays intact.