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House Washing in Duncanville

Head south from Tuscaloosa on Highway 69 and the lots get bigger, the trees get taller and the houses move back from the road. Duncanville is wooded acreage and large lots, mostly brick homes built in the 1980s and 90s, with a wood deck or a screened porch on the back facing the trees and a long drive out to the highway or to one of the county roads toward Highway 82. The houses are solid, and the trees are the reason they need washing.

Under oaks and pines a brick wall stays damp on the shaded side, a deck goes grey in a couple of summers, and a screened porch collects a yellow pollen coat every spring that the rain never fully takes off. We wash each of those with its own method, and we price them as one visit when you want them done together. The form is where it starts, and a photo of the back of the house tells us most of the story.

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Brick home with a wood deck and screened porch on a wooded Duncanville lot, pollen on the porch floor and pines and oaks overhead

Decks and screened porches under the trees

The deck is the first thing that shows age on a Duncanville house. Treated pine goes grey as the surface fibers break down in the sun and humidity, and under tree cover it grows a black mildew on top of the grey. A pressure washer held close tears the soft wood out and leaves the boards fuzzy. A deck under the oaks gets a wood-safe cleaner, a soft rinse that moves with the grain, and a day to dry, after which the wood looks like wood again and is ready for a sealer if you want one.

Screened porches are the other call. The screens catch pollen, the porch floor turns yellow from March into May, and the ceiling grows mildew spots where the air does not move. We wash the screens from both sides at low pressure, the ceiling and the floor with the same mild cleaner, and the rails and columns with the house. The porch comes back usable without anything being taken apart.

Anything in the beds around the deck gets wet before we start and rinsed when we finish, so the cleaner never sits on the leaves. Azaleas, hydrangeas and the ferns that grow in the shade here all come through fine when that is done.

Wooded lots and shaded brick

Brick from the 80s and 90s is a good surface, but on a wooded lot the north and east walls hold mildew in the face of the brick and in the mortar joints, and the shaded end of the house slowly turns darker than the sunny end. Brick and vinyl take different pressure and chemistry, and brick wants the stronger cleaner and the longer dwell, followed by a rinse that leaves the mortar alone. An older brick house wash in Duncanville usually includes the trim, the soffits and the garage door, which are often painted or vinyl and get the milder mix.

The foundation line carries red clay from the drive after every hard rain, and the garage door catches the splash from the slab. Clay is rinsed separately from the growth above it. Tuscaloosa County averages well over fifty inches of rain a year, and most of it arrives hard, which is why that line reappears every season.

Shingle roofs under the trees streak the same way they do anywhere in West Alabama, and they get a low-pressure soft wash, never pressure. Gutters on these lots fill with oak leaves and pine needles twice a year, and clearing them is often the first thing we do on a visit so the roof and house rinse drain where they should. We work Monday through Saturday, 7am to 6pm, and answer quote requests the same day. A full visit with the deck, porch and house is a long morning out here.

What we wash in Duncanville

Brick, vinyl and painted houses. Wood decks, steps and rails. Screened porches, screens included. Shingle roofs. Long concrete drives, walks and patios. Fences and gates. Gutters. The visit is built from whatever you put on the list, and the price covers only what is on it.

Duncanville is at the south end of the route, and the crew that runs it also covers Fosters on Highway 82, Moundville farther down 69, and swings back through Cottondale on the way east. We wash houses, roofs and concrete across Tuscaloosa County: Tuscaloosa, Northport, Cottondale, Coker, Brookwood, Vance, Duncanville, Fosters, Coaling, Moundville, Holt, Lake View and Samantha. Every job is priced in writing before we start, by the surface and its size, from a photo or a quick walk-around. On a wooded lot the photo of the back of the house is the one that matters.

Services we bring out here

Questions we get

Should a deck in Duncanville be sealed after it is washed?

It helps. A clean, dry deck takes a sealer or stain well, and under tree cover the sealer slows the grey and the mildew coming back. We clean it and let it dry; sealing is a separate job, and we tell you when the wood is ready.

Can you wash a screened porch without removing the screens?

Yes. Low pressure from both sides takes the pollen and dust out of the mesh, and a mild cleaner handles the mildew on the frames and ceiling. Nothing comes off, and the porch dries within a few hours.

How far south on Highway 69 do you go?

Through Duncanville and on to Moundville, and out Highway 82 to Fosters. Put the address in the form and we confirm the first open morning for your side of the county.

A photo of the back of the house

Take a picture of the deck or porch and one of the shaded side of the house. Send them with the form, or get in touch with a question first if you are not sure what needs doing. We reply the same day with a written price and the first open morning.