#1 Power Washing Company in Tuscaloosa Alabama

Pressure washing in Tuscaloosa is mostly a fight with water. The Black Warrior River runs through town, Lake Tuscaloosa sits to the north, and the humidity off both keeps green algae and mildew growing on north-facing siding most of the year. Add the red clay that splashes up a foundation after one of our fifty-plus inches of rain and the yellow pollen film that settles on every porch from March into May, and a house here needs washing more often than the same house would in a drier state.

Worker soft washing the brick and white trim of a one-story ranch house on a shaded street with pines and oaks behind it

We wash houses, roofs, gutters, driveways and decks for homeowners, landlords and property managers in Tuscaloosa and the towns around it. Siding and shingles get a low-pressure soft wash. Concrete gets a surface cleaner. Nothing gets blasted that should not be.

What we wash

House exteriors: vinyl, brick, Hardie board, painted wood, stucco, soffits, trim and screens. The method and the mix change with the surface, which is why the older brick near campus and in Forest Lake gets handled differently from the vinyl in a newer Northport subdivision.

Roofs: the black streaks on asphalt shingles come off with a low-pressure treatment, never a pressure wand. Gutters: clean-out, downspout flush and brightening of the dark tiger stripes on the outside face. Concrete: driveways, sidewalks, patios, pool decks and garage floors with a surface cleaner that leaves no wand marks. Wood: decks, privacy fences, and the docks and boathouses on Lake Tuscaloosa and Lake Nicol.

Most first calls are for a full wash of the siding and trim, and a lot of those turn into a roof or driveway add-on once the homeowner sees the before-and-after on one wall.

Green algae streaks on the shaded north wall of a tan vinyl house with half the wall already clean and bright

House Washing

Siding, brick, trim, soffits and porches, soft washed so the green comes off and the paint stays on..

White cleaning foam clinging to painted wood lap siding and a window screen on an older home with azaleas along the foundation

Soft Washing

The low-pressure method for siding, shingles, painted wood and anything a pressure wand would damage..

Charcoal shingle roof on a brick house with dark algae streaks on one slope and the other slope clean, worker on a ladder at the gutter line

Roof Cleaning

Black streaks off asphalt, metal and tile roofs with a soft wash, never a pressure wand..

Round surface cleaner running across a mildew-grey concrete sidewalk and leaving a bright clean strip, red clay stain at the lawn edge

Driveway and Concrete Cleaning

Driveways, sidewalks, patios, pool decks and garage floors, run with a surface cleaner so there are no stripes..

Gloved hand scooping wet pine straw and oak leaves out of a white aluminum gutter with a ladder against the fascia and pines overhead

Gutter Cleaning

Pine straw and oak leaves out, downspouts flushed, and the black stripes washed off the outside..

Weathered grey wood deck with one half cleaned back to warm tan, lake water and a boathouse visible past the railing

Deck and Fence Cleaning

Wood and composite decks, privacy fences, and the docks and boathouses on Lake Tuscaloosa and Lake Nicol..

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Concrete driveway half cleaned, one side bright and the other grey with mildew and red clay stain, vinyl house and crepe myrtles behind

Why Tuscaloosa houses grow green

The stuff on the north wall is algae, and the dark spots in the shade of the carport are mildew. Both need moisture and shade, and Tuscaloosa supplies both. Morning fog off the river, dew that does not burn off until mid-morning under the oaks and loblolly pines, and summer humidity that sits near the house all night. The south and west walls dry out and stay cleaner. The north wall and anything under a tree canopy gets green first.

Pollen makes it worse. The spring film is not just ugly, it is food for the algae underneath it, so a house that was not washed in April tends to be greener by September than one that was.

Then there is the clay. After a two-inch rain, the red soil along a foundation bed splashes a foot or more up the brick or the bottom course of vinyl and dries into an orange band that a garden hose will not move. Garage doors, porch steps and the concrete apron get the same band. It comes off with the right pretreatment, and a clean gutter system with downspouts pointed away from the beds keeps it from coming back as fast.

Soft wash or pressure wash

A pressure washer puts out enough force to cut a line into pine decking or push water up behind lap siding where it sits against the sheathing. It will also shear the granules off a shingle and take ten years off a roof in an afternoon. So we do not use high pressure on siding, roofs, painted wood or screens. Those surfaces get a soft wash: a cleaning solution applied at garden-hose pressure, allowed to work, then rinsed.

High pressure has a place. Concrete, brick pavers and pressure-treated wood can take it, in the right hands and with the right tip. A surface cleaner on a driveway, or a fan tip held at a steady distance on a fence, is the correct tool. The skill is knowing which surface is which.

How a wash day goes

You send a photo of the house or driveway through the form and we reply with a written price. On the day, we walk the property first, note the stuff we need you to know about (a cracked window seal, a loose downspout, a spot of rotten trim the cleaner would find), then wet down the plants near the walls and cover anything that should not get solution on it.

The wash itself takes a couple of hours for an average single-story house, longer for two stories or a roof. We rinse the plants again when we are done, walk it with you if you are home, and leave the hose bib where we found it. Timing is flexible inside the week. We work Monday through Saturday, 7am to 6pm, and answer quote requests the same day.

Where we go

Tuscaloosa itself, from the campus neighborhoods and Alberta out to the subdivisions along Highway 69 South. Northport across the river. Cottondale, Coker, Brookwood, Vance, Duncanville, Fosters, Coaling, Moundville and Holt. Lake View and Samantha on the far edges. If you are in Tuscaloosa County, you are inside the route.

  • Tuscaloosa
  • Northport
  • Cottondale
  • Coker
  • Brookwood
  • Vance
  • Duncanville
  • Fosters
  • Coaling
  • Moundville
  • Holt
  • Lake View
  • Samantha

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What it costs here

People search what pressure washing costs before they call anyone, and the honest answer is that it depends on square footage, how many stories, how dirty, and what the surface is made of. A soft wash on a one-story vinyl ranch is one number; a two-story brick house with a streaked roof and a long driveway is a different one. Every job is priced in writing before we start, by the surface and its size, from a photo or a quick walk-around. No surprise line items on the day. The quote form asks for a photo so we can see the siding, the roofline and how much green is on it. That is usually enough to put a firm number on it without a visit.

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