House Washing · Charleston, SC
Professional house washing in Charleston
House Washing for your Charleston property
Peninsula houses are the hardest wash in the Lowcountry: harbor salt drifts up from the Battery and settles into lime stucco and soft old clapboard that cannot take pressure. We soft wash single houses South of Broad and along Meeting Street at garden-hose force, clearing the green film without opening a single mortar joint.
Charleston, SC at a glance
Charleston's historic peninsula, from South of Broad to the harbor and the neighborhoods along the Ashley and Cooper rivers, sits in warm, salt-laden Lowcountry air. That humidity, heavy spring pollen, and marsh air feed mildew and algae on clapboard, stucco, brick, and slate and metal roofs. Because so many homes here are historic, gentle soft-washing - never high pressure on old mortar and wood - is the right way to keep them clean.
Care for the aging piazzas and lime-stucco facades below Broad follows the same soft-touch preservation standard championed by the Historic Charleston Foundation.
Exterior work on a protected downtown property often runs through the historic-district review overseen by the City of Charleston.
The peninsula's architectural heritage is the same one celebrated a few blocks up Meeting Street at the Gibbes Museum of Art.
How we get house washing right
Charleston homes take a beating that inland houses never see. Atlantic salt air drifts across the peninsula and settles into stucco, brick and lap siding, while the Lowcountry's near-constant humidity feeds a green-black film of mildew and algae, especially on shaded north walls under the live oaks. We soft wash rather than blast, using low pressure and gentle, surface-matched solutions that lift growth and salt haze without forcing water behind clapboards or stripping delicate historic trim. On a downtown single house with its long side piazza, or a stucco facade South of Broad, that gentleness is not optional; on newer Hardie siding in Daniel Island, Mount Pleasant or West Ashley it simply lasts longer. From the Old Village to Johns Island, we bring the color back and treat every wall like it cannot be replaced, because much of the time it truly cannot.
Every Charleston job starts with an upfront, flat quote and finishes with workmanship you can count on.
