Pressure Washing in Ahwatukee, AZ

Cleaning Built for Ahwatukee Homes

Ahwatukee sits up against South Mountain, and that changes the job. The preserve puts fine dust on everything downwind of it, the streets run up into the foothills so runoff and granite wash across driveways, and almost every neighborhood here answers to an HOA. Most of what we do in the Foothills is residential and appearance-driven.

HOA notices on driveways and walls

The most common call we get from Ahwatukee is a compliance letter about a stained driveway, a dirty sidewalk or a streaked block wall. Those are all straightforward, and we can usually clear the notice in a single visit — driveway, walkway, entry and the street-facing walls done together so the whole frontage matches instead of one clean patch next to a dirty one.

Stucco and painted block

Nearly everything here is stucco over block, much of it built from the 1980s through the early 2000s and on its second or third coat of paint. That gets soft washed — low pressure and a cleaning solution — not blasted. Pressure is what drives water behind stucco and takes paint off with the dirt, and it is the single most common way this job gets done wrong.

Pool decks, patios and cool decking

Backyards in Ahwatukee are pools, cool decking and pavers, and they collect sunscreen, algae in the shaded corners and calcium where the water splashes out. Cool decking in particular is a coating, so it wants a gentler approach than bare concrete. We also do the block walls around the yard, which is usually where the algae shows up first on the north side.

Dust off the mountain and desert landscaping

With granite yards and the preserve right there, dust is constant rather than seasonal, and monsoon storms coming over the mountain coat west-facing walls and windows in a night. Homes backing the preserve or a wash tend to need a rinse more often than the rest of the Valley, so a lot of our Ahwatukee customers are on a once or twice a year schedule.