Appalachian Living Can Be Dirty - Pressure Washing Can Help!

The beautiful natural features of our community foster a coveted and exciting lifestyle for many outdoor enthusiasts who spend more time on mountaintops and are surrounded by woodland wonders than in their own houses! It also means your house may be a popular destination for family and friends who wish to share in those adventurous spoils. Being the community host comes with great perks of shared food and stories, but when your driveway and sidewalks consistently hold so many cars over long periods, and when dozens of boots track their way to and from your front porch, it can take a toll on that porch and on your driveway.

Appalachian Softwash offers patio washing and driveway washing solutions!

Mountain Trail Soils & Oils

Hiking a mountain can be an awesome experience and provide excellent, humbling views of the world around you, but bringing the mountain back home with you is less awesome! If you or anyone you know frequently mountain trails on a regular basis and comes back to spend time at your house, it may be time to evaluate the condition of your driveway. This is doubly true if there are multiple vehicles traversing dirt roads or dirt parking lots and then returning to your property.

Exposure to those wilderness trails involves picking up a lot of soil that packs into your shoes and a lot of plant fragments that stick in your soles. This debris will then deposit on your driveway or sidewalk surfaces, leaving layer after layer of wilderness residue that packs onto itself. Each of these—the soil and the plant bits—will contain oils that leak out and soak onto your driveway. Over time, these contaminants compound, and the oily residues become more significant. As they leak onto your cement driveway, they'll seep into the pores of the material and sink deeper than you may realize. These stains can become more widespread over time, causing large discolorations, and can penetrate deeper into concrete than many people realize.

Pressure washing is the simple solution to these issues, and when you approach it with readiness and schedule cleaning on an annual basis, it never becomes a problem!

Boating Engines & Gas

Very similar principles occur when it comes to boating—except with those, you can usually see the damage happening! Boating is just as common a leisure activity for outdoor enthusiasts as mountain hiking. When you bring your boat back from the lake, it's dripping with lake water that seeps down from the boat's underside, over the trailer, and onto your concrete. It's barely noticeable, but it's common for boats to leak engine liquids that will mingle into the lake's freshwater and become hard to discern.

All these reasons are why it's important to schedule annual pressure washing with Appalachian Softwash for your Appalachian property. When you're an outdoor enthusiast, regular pressure washing is necessary to keep your residence in its best possible condition!