A clean driveway before the holidays
The driveway is the first thing anybody sees and the last thing most people think about. If you are having family over, it is also the single cheapest thing you can do to make the front of the house look after itself. Why concrete goes grey and green Concrete is porous. Everything that lands on […]
Please do not pressure wash your roof
This is the one I feel strongest about. If you take one thing from anything I write, take this: a roof should never see high pressure. What high pressure does to shingles Asphalt shingles are protected by a layer of mineral granules bonded to the surface. Those granules are the shingle’s sunscreen — they take […]
Why the north side of your house goes green first
People often ask me why one wall looks fine and the wall around the corner looks like it belongs to a different house. It is almost always the north side, and there is nothing wrong with your siding. It is about how long the wall stays wet A north-facing wall in Georgia gets very little […]
Get the gutters done before the leaves drop
Every year I get the same run of calls in November, and every year they would have been cheaper in September. Once the leaves are down and packed into a gutter, and then it rains on them, you are not cleaning a gutter any more — you are digging one out. What actually goes wrong […]