Power washing in Youngstown, Ohio.

Youngstown work splits between two very different jobs. On the residential side there are older homes, a lot of brick and painted wood, many of them with porches, railings and concrete steps that carry decades of grime. On the commercial side there is downtown: glass fronts, sidewalks, awnings and building faces that get judged by every person who walks past.

Downtown jobs are usually done early. We stage before the shops open, work the glass and the facade, and are off the sidewalk before foot traffic picks up. Property managers with several buildings can get all of them walked in one visit and quoted on a single sheet.

For rentals and multi unit buildings, a wash is the cheapest curb appeal there is. It shows in listing photos and it costs a fraction of paint.

A typical residential job in the city is a house wash plus the porch, steps and front walk. Many of these homes have generous front porches with painted railings and concrete treads, and that combination is where the visible difference is biggest, because it is the part of the house people stand on.

For commercial and multi unit owners, we quote per building or per unit and can walk several properties in one visit. Landlords generally book in spring ahead of the turnover season, when clean siding and a clean entry make units show better and rent faster.

Water supply is worth raising on older commercial buildings, where an outside spigot is often missing or dead. We can haul water in, which means the job goes ahead without you having to get a plumber out first.

Curb appeal work on the older housing stock usually starts with three surfaces: the porch ceiling and columns, the front steps, and the glass. Those three together change how a house reads from the sidewalk more than washing the whole rear elevation ever will, and for a rental on the market they are the cheapest improvement available before photos are taken.