shPressure Washing in Springfield, PA
Power washing and soft washing for Springfield’s post-war capes, ranchers and split-levels from the 1950s and 1960s.
Springfield is a post-war township, which in practice means wide poured-concrete driveways, low single-story rooflines and aluminum or vinyl siding. It is the easiest housing stock in the county to clean well and the easiest to make look striped by cleaning badly.
Wide flat concrete is where zebra stripes happen
A 1950s Springfield driveway is a big, open, uninterrupted slab. Cleaned freehand with a wand it ends up with a permanent arc pattern - the zebra stripe - which only comes out by cleaning the entire slab again properly. A rotary surface cleaner gives every square inch the same pressure and the same dwell, which is the only way to finish a slab that size evenly.
Low rooflines make the whole house reachable
A cape or a rancher can be soft washed properly from the ground, which means no ladder marks, nothing leaned against the gutter, and even coverage from soffit to splash line. It also means the gutter faces are close enough to see from the sidewalk, so gutter streaking is more obvious here than on a three-story house.
Stone fronts on post-war houses
Many of Springfield's mid-century homes pair a stone front with siding on the sides and back. The two materials need different handling on the same house: the stone and its mortar can take a controlled rinse, and the siding wants a soft wash. We treat them as two surfaces, so the stone comes up clean and the siding is never blasted to get there.
Driveway aprons and the curb line
On a wide Springfield driveway, the apron where it meets the street takes the worst of it: road grit, tire marks and the runoff line from the street. It is also the first thing seen from the road. We finish every driveway at the curb line, so the clean slab does not stop a foot short of the street.
Backyard decks and patios
Behind the stone fronts, many Springfield yards have a wood or composite deck or a concrete patio added over the years, and those surfaces go green on the shaded side of the house first. Decks get a wood-safe or composite-safe method and patios get a surface cleaner, and both can be done on the same visit as the house and driveway, which is the cheapest way to get the whole property clean at once.
The nearest completed job to Springfield
The closest work we have photographed is about two and a half miles away in Drexel Hill: An older stone home, siding to sidewalk. Same housing-stock questions, same methods, and you can look at every frame of it before you call.
See That JobSpringfield, in brief.
Springfield was settled by Quakers who came with William Penn, and it was first recognized as a governmental entity in 1686. Many of its street names, from Kennerly and Lownes to Maris, Pancoast and Worrell, come from those early families. It began as farmland, and by the 1800s its creeks were turning mills.
The Springfield most people know was built in the last century, as developers bought the farms and filled them with single-family homes. One of the largest projects, the Stoney Creek development, began in 1949 and was finished in five years. Its houses share stone fronts and a common size, and differ in their porches and window placement. Baltimore Pike, known as the Golden Mile for its car dealerships, runs straight through the middle.
Darby Creek forms the township's northeastern border and Crum Creek its western one, and the parks that replaced the old woods and fields keep many streets green.
Springfield borders Drexel Hill and the rest of Upper Darby to the northeast, Marple Township to the north, and Swarthmore and Nether Providence to the southwest. Baltimore Pike, Sproul Road and Saxer Avenue carry most of the traffic through the township. Springfield's post-war streets are laid out in a regular way, and the homes on a block are often close cousins. That makes it easy for neighbors to book together, and our referral program pays both of you when they do.
What we clean in Springfield.
Every service below is available in Springfield, and most homes book two or three of them together, which costs less than separate visits.
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