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Pressure Washing in Moundville

The mounds have been on the river bluff at Moundville for the better part of a thousand years, and the humidity that comes up off the Black Warrior has been working on everything built since. Twenty minutes south of Tuscaloosa on Highway 69, right at the Hale County line, Moundville is an older town than most of the places we work: 1950s and 60s brick houses on shaded streets, a downtown of small storefronts along the highway, and newer ranches on the roads out toward the river and the park.

River-bottom air is the thing you fight here. A porch slab on the shaded side of a Moundville house goes black with mildew, a brick wall under the oaks turns green in the mortar lines, and a concrete walk that was poured white looks like it was poured grey. None of that is dirt, and none of it responds to a scrub brush. It is growth, and it needs a cleaner that kills it, not just water that moves it.

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1950s red brick ranch house in Moundville with a carport, half of the concrete driveway freshly cleaned and the other half still stained with red clay

River-bottom humidity and the mildew it grows

Summers around here run near ninety with air you can wring out, and the river keeps the low ground damp long after the rain stops. Mildew on shaded concrete comes back sooner than anyone would like, which is why we post-treat every slab we wash rather than just rinsing it. The treatment leaves a residue that keeps the surface clean a good deal longer than a bare wash does.

On the house, the north and east walls hold the growth. Brick takes a different approach from vinyl: the mortar is porous and the brick face can be soft on an older home, so we use a cleaner that lifts the algae out of the joints and rinse at low pressure. Blasting old brick knocks the mortar face off and leaves the wall looking sandblasted, and there is no undoing that. The way we handle older brick homes protects the joints and still gets the wall back to its real color.

We pre-wet and cover the beds along the foundation. Moundville yards tend to have mature camellias, azaleas and hydrangeas right against the house, and the Alabama Extension's lawn and garden notes are the reference we point people to when they ask what a cleaner does to a shrub. The short answer is that a rinsed plant is a fine plant, and we rinse.

Downtown storefronts and the older homes behind them

The storefronts along Highway 69 through downtown Moundville have the same humidity problem as the houses, plus foot traffic, gum, and whatever the trucks throw up off the road. We wash entries, sidewalks, awnings and the lower walls early in the morning before the doors open, and we keep the runoff out of the storm drains with a vacuum recovery setup when the job calls for it. Our storefront and parking lot washing also covers drive-throughs, dumpster pads and the back of the building nobody looks at until the health inspector does.

The houses on the streets just off downtown are the ones with the concrete porches, the long front walks and the detached garages, and that concrete is the first thing people ask about. We run a surface cleaner over walks and porch floors so they come up even, then post-treat for the mildew. Every job is priced in writing before we start, by the surface and its size, from a photo or a quick walk-around, and for a porch-and-walk job a photo from the street usually covers it.

What we wash in Moundville

Brick, vinyl and painted wood houses. Shingle roofs with the black algae streaks. Porches, walks, driveways and patios. Gutters, with the outside face cleaned so the stripes go away. Storefronts, sidewalks and small lots along the highway. Decks and fences.

Moundville is a regular stop rather than a long trip for us. We work Monday through Saturday, 7am to 6pm, and answer quote requests the same day. The route usually comes down 69 through Duncanville or swings over from the farms around Fosters along the river, so a house here can often be booked within the week. We wash houses, roofs and concrete across Tuscaloosa County: Tuscaloosa, Northport, Cottondale, Coker, Brookwood, Vance, Duncanville, Fosters, Coaling, Moundville, Holt, Lake View and Samantha, and we come across the Hale County line for Moundville addresses without any fuss about it.

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Questions we get

Will washing old brick damage it?

Not the way we do it. We use a cleaner to lift the growth and rinse at low pressure. High pressure on older, softer brick takes the face off and opens the mortar, and we do not do that.

Can you wash a storefront before we open?

Yes. Early morning is our normal time for downtown work so the walk is dry and clear before customers arrive. We schedule it with you so nothing is in the way.

How soon does mildew come back on a porch?

In the shade near the river it comes back faster than in the open, but the post-treatment we leave on the slab slows it down a lot. Most people have us back on a rotation of a couple of years.

Price in writing, no walk-through needed

Photos of the house or the storefront, your address and what you want cleaned. That is all the form asks for. You will have a number back the same day, and the crew shows up only after you have agreed to it.