Your siding is not one material and it should not get one treatment. We identify what your walls are actually made of, then clean each one the way that material needs.
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Vinyl, stucco, fiber cement and brick all behave differently under water and cleaning solution. Vinyl washes well but will take water in behind the panels if the angle and pressure are wrong. Stucco is porous and pits if you hit it too hard. Brick can show efflorescence afterward, the chalky white mineral haze drawn out of masonry as it dries. Identifying the material first is what keeps a cleaning from turning into a repair.
Two houses on the same block can wear completely different skins. One is wrapped in vinyl, the next in stucco, the third in fiber cement or brick. They collect the same Minnesota grime, meaning north-side algae, pollen, road salt spray and the freeze-thaw that grinds it all in. What they will not tolerate is the same cleaning.
Vinyl flexes and has overlapping seams that let forced water in behind the panels. Stucco is porous and chips if you lean on it. Fiber cement carries a baked-on factory finish you do not want to strip. Brick is only as sound as the soft mortar holding it together.
So the material comes first. Get it right and the house comes back bright and undamaged. Get it wrong and you are looking at cracked panels, pitted stucco or eroded mortar joints, none of which a cleaning company can put back.
ReviewsA soft wash leaves every wall one even color, so you can check our work from the yard. Here is what Minneapolis homeowners say. If a spot looks missed, call within 72 hours and we re-wash it free.
A routine that starts by identifying your siding and ends with your sign-off.
We confirm what the walls are, vinyl, stucco, fiber cement, brick or a mix, and set the method and solution strength for it.
We wet down and shield your planting, delicate features get covered, and fixtures and weep holes are noted to work around.
A material-appropriate cleaner goes on at the correct low pressure for your siding.
The solution breaks down algae and mildew at the root, then a gentle top-to-bottom rinse leaves an even finish.
A walkthrough at the end so you can confirm every elevation looks right before we pack up.
Photos from our own siding cleaning jobs.
We reach the upper siding from the ladder and keep the pressure low the whole way up.
White board and batten washed from the driveway without forcing water behind the boards.
We work around the whole house, one side at a time, so every elevation matches.
Price comes from the size of the house and, to a degree, the material. Brick and mixed-material homes need a more careful blended approach than a straightforward vinyl wash, and heavily shaded or long-neglected walls sometimes want a second pass.
Quotes are free and confirmed by a person before anything starts.
Cleaning the whole envelope at once is usually the better value. Pair siding with house washing, or add gutters and windows while the crew is already set up.
A quick note on method first, because it matters. Nearly all siding gets soft washed, meaning low pressure, roughly the force of a garden hose, plus a cleaning solution that kills algae and mildew at the root. The alternative, high pressure, is what forces water behind panels. The full explanation is on our house washing page. This page is about your material.
Get My Free Siding QuoteVinyl, aluminum, fiber cement and wood
Stucco, brick and stone
If the north or shaded side looks green-black while the sunny side stays clean, nothing is wrong with your siding. It is doing what physics says it will.
The usual culprit is a hardy airborne algae, often *Gloeocapsa magma*, that needs moisture and shade to establish. North-facing and tree-shaded walls get less direct sun, so they stay damp for hours longer after rain, dew and snowmelt. Through a humid Minnesota summer that damp shade is ideal. The sunny elevations dry quickly and starve it out.
Which means the answer is not scrubbing harder on the one wall. It is killing the growth at the root and then keeping ahead of it on the shaded sides, where it will always want to come back.
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Different materials, one promise. If any wall did not come back the way you hoped, whether a stubborn shaded section or a spot we missed, call within 72 hours and we return and put it right at our cost.
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We work out of one office in New Hope and cover Minneapolis, St. Paul and the surrounding metro from it. One local company, not a franchise or a dealer network, so the people who quote your job are the people who do it and the people you call afterward.
Straight answers so you know what you are booking. If your question is not here, call and ask.
It depends on the size of your house, how many stories it has and how much growth is on the siding. You get a free quote and a firm price before we start.
Once a year suits most Minneapolis homes. Shaded and north-facing walls stay damp and grow back faster, so they may want it more often. Sunny walls on an open lot can often go longer.
Not with high pressure. It can force water behind the panels through the seams and weep holes, and older vinyl can crack. We soft wash it instead. Low pressure and a cleaning solution give a deeper clean without either risk.
Most dull, green or gray vinyl is dirty, not worn out. A soft wash kills the algae and mildew and lifts the grime, and the color comes back. If the vinyl is chalky or faded from years of sun, cleaning helps, but it will not bring back the original color.
It is the right method for it. Soft washing lifts grime and algae while leaving the baked-on factory paint and the flexible caulk in the joints alone. Both are things high pressure damages.
Usually, but carefully and with a realistic expectation. A gentle soft wash lifts grime without stripping sound paint. If the paint is already failing, cleaning will not save it and can loosen flakes that were on their way off anyway. We will tell you what we are seeing before starting.
They go together. The house washing page explains the soft-wash method in depth. This page covers your material and how we handle each type. Plenty of people book them as one job.
Walk the house after we finish, and if any wall looks off, call (612) 216-7894 within 72 hours. We come back and re-clean it at no charge. No invoice, no argument, no fine print. That is the Wally’s Worry-Free Guarantee.
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