Kansas City, MO: Top 5 Benefits of Hiring a Pressure Washing Company 

Besides the aesthetics, what’s the benefit of hiring a power washing company? Decker Service Professionals is pressure washing company providing both soft and pressure washing services.  During the course of business, we are often asked about the green mold growing on exterior cladding, sticky siding, and the insects that may be intruding our clients interior spaces.  This article is devoted to answering many of those question. 

The Top 5 Benefits of washing your home include:

1. Pride
2. Longer Lifespan
3. Mold
4. Insects
5. Investment Growth

The most obvious benefit of hiring a pressure washing company to clean exterior you exterior living space is that you become a proud homeowner, never embarrassed to entertain your friends or invite new guests over.   A home or business exterior that is clean and sparkles in the sun – makes you feel good about yourself, protects and prolongs your hard-earned investment from deterioration, and protects you and your family from further encroachment of molds and other contaminants into the interior of your home.

LIFESPAN

Besides the pride that goes along with a clean home, if your home’s exterior siding is made of brick, stucco, weatherboard, vinyl siding, steel, painted wood, or a composite siding like Hardi Board, washing the exterior of you home on a yearly basis means your homes exterior cladding will have a much longer lifespan.

Have you ever noticed any green growing on your siding? Moss, algae, mildews, and mold attacks paint, stucco, brick and other surfaces and shortens their life span. These organisms are feeding on sugars, dust, dirt, pollen, and other things that are attach themselves to the siding.  

Trees disperse ultra-fine particle of sugars at various times during the growing season. Park your car under certain trees, and you’ll discover thousands of tiny droplets of sap or sugar on the painted finish and glass. These aerosols also coat you home, driveway, patios, and decks.

Paints and stains can contain chemicals designed to prevent mildew and algae growth, but chemicals can and do break down when exposed to sunlight (UV rays) and repeated exposure to rainwater, snow, the freeze/thaw cycle, and many other elements that Kansas City weather can dish out.

Soot

Soot from chimneys along with other airborne pollutants can attack your siding.  Soot consists of extremely fine particles that are much smaller than the diameter of a human hair. These particles are composed of carbon and caused by the inefficient combustion of coal, wood, oil, gas, and other carbon-based fuels. 

Soot hazardous at any exposure level due to its corrosive and acidic nature. When you have noticeable soot build up around your home it will often settle down, in, and around your chimney and on adjacent siding and roofing, making that area darker, less attractive, and potentially more harmful to your exterior surfaces.

Regardless what your home exterior is made out of, in most cases the coatings on those materials are designed to keep protected from the elements and water tight.  When you don’t clean your home, the moss, algae, mildew, and mold on your surface coatings can deteriorate prematurely.  Your exterior cladding material can and will start to absorb water and begin to fail.

MOLD

Additionally, letting mold live on your exterior may lead to problems within your interior.  If you are like most home owners you are likely to have a buildup of dirt, mildew, and fungus that can make your home look unattractive in certain areas.  Fungus or mold will normally attach to your siding in the wet season however it will not go away until you remove it.

When mold, mildew, and fungus first appear, it looks as green as grass.  When it dies, it turns dark black in appearance. Some mistake it for dirt or grime.  The problem with organic materials like this is that there is a risk of it migrating into your interior walls if you don’t catch it early.

Open vents on your siding and soffits may allow mold spores to migrate into your original wood siding.

Mold propagates by spreading a large number of spores, which travel through the air. Siding is never perfectly sealed.  Various pathways exist for these spores to travel inside you’re your exterior cladding and start growing in the dark environment between your exterior steel, vinyl, aluminum, or other types of siding and your original siding. Migration pathways include weep holes, joints, and soffit vents.

Once organics like mold and fungus gets into your plywood or interior sheetrock, you’ll be looking at some serious out-of-pocket expenses to repair damages and remediate the mold. Moreover, the health conditions in your home could turn dangerous affecting your family and guests.

INSECTS

Another often overlook reason to clean your homes exterior is bugs. The same conditions that are favorable for mold are also favorable to bugs.  Some bugs even feed on molds and mildew.  The odor of mold and mildew can also attract bugs including gnats.  Several species of bugs are attracted to the gasses that certain types of mold put off.   That musty or earthy odor that you may notice in your home is what attracts them and is an indication that mold is growing somewhere inside your home.

INVESTMENT SECURITY

Finally, the most important reason to hire a pressure washing company.  For most homeowners, their dwelling is one of biggest investments.  Not only do you want to keep the purchased value of that asset but you would like the value to grow.  A home that has been well maintained will sell faster and for more money.  Just ask you Realtor.

All of the problems mentioned above can be avoided by washing the exterior surfaces of your home at regular intervals and definitely when molds and other contaminates are noticed. You may also want to consider your other adjacent surfaces such as decks, driveway, porches, patios, and roof.

Should you have any questions or concerns, we’re here to help you as a contractor or a consultant. Feel free to contact us with any questions – 816-490-7671 .