Concrete Cleaning Services
Renew the look of your concrete surfaces
Why hire a professional concrete cleaning company?
The exterior surfaces of your home are continually exposed to the elements. Concrete surfaces are no different. Every day, contaminants are deposited on your driveway, sidewalks, walkways and patio. Progressively, your concrete surfaces become soiled with a myriad of stains and organic growths (algae, mildew, lichens and moss) that just won’t wash off with a hose and water. The access ways to your home that were once inviting now look dingy, dirty and old which affects the curb appeal of your home.
Thankfully, most if not all of the staining on your concrete surfaces can be reversed, but you’ll have to act sooner rather than later because concrete surfaces are quite porous. The longer you leave stains on concrete, the deeper they seep into it, making some stains impossible to remove without causing damage to the concrete.
On the surface, cleaning concrete with a pressure washer seems easy enough, but don’t be fooled. If you don’t know what you are doing, you could cause some serious damage that can only be fixed by pouring new concrete, and that can be quite expensive. To do the job correctly, you will need the right equipment, the right chemicals and the right skills. The concrete cleaning equipment Bluewhale Powerwash uses is professional grade and expensive. It wouldn’t be worth it for you to invest in that equipment to clean your driveway every year or so. The chemicals used by professionals like Bluewhale Powerwash to clean concrete are only sold to professionals. We’ve tested dozens of brands and products on many job sites to determine which ones work and which ones don’t to remove stains from concrete. Doing that research yourself would be extremely time consuming and could cost you a couple of thousand dollars in the process. Cleaning concrete is done following a specific process which include a pre treatment, special stain treatments with specific dwell times, pressure washing and surface washing at the appropriate PSI, rinsing and applying a post treatment. For most typical driveways, sidewalks and patios, the work could take our technicians two to three hours to complete. If you were do to it yourself, it could take a full weekend or as much as a couple of weekends.
Hiring a professional concrete cleaning company like Bluewhale Powerwash to clean your concrete surfaces is the best choice and the easiest way to restore the look of your concrete surfaces because the work will be done professionally at a fraction of the time it would take you do the work. If you live near Charlotte, contact Bluewhale Powerwash to request a free quote to clean your concrete surfaces. You will find that our prices very competitive and that our concrete cleaning services are the best value in the Charlotte area. View some of our concrete cleaning work in the Charlotte area.
Types of stains we remove
- Organic stains from algae and mildew
- Moss and lichens
- Red clay stains
- Rust stains
- Engine oil and grease
- Dirt and other contaminants
Removal of red clay, rust, engine oil and grease, excessive moss and lichens will be an extra charge and is not included in our standard concrete cleaning service.
Concrete cleaning process
Our technicians follow the same process for all concrete cleaning services. Depending on how soiled your concrete surfaces are, more or less treatment might be needed. For atypical stains like rust stains, red clay stains, oil and engine fluid stains, our technicians use specific industrial cleaners that yield excellent results. Our concrete cleaning process is as follow:
- - Removal of surface debris with backpack blower and brush as needed
- - Application of pre-treatment to kill organic growths like algae, mildew and mold, moss and mildew
- - Application of special stain treatment as needed for red clay, rust, oil and other residue removal. This is an additional service.
- - Pressure washing at 4000 PSI, 4GPM flow as well as use surface cleaner to remove layers of dirt and stains
- - Rinse off concrete surface to remove loose surface contaminants
- - Post treatment to ensure maximum clean results.
If you live near Charlotte and need professional concrete services, contact Bluewhale Powerwash for a free quote at (704) 272-4726. We serve Union County and Mecklenburg County including Charlotte, Matthews, Mint Hill, Pineville and Ballantyne.
