House Washing in Troy, NY

Troy is the most masonry-heavy city in the Capital Region. Walk Washington Park, the blocks around Russell Sage, or the streets of the Pottery District and you're surrounded by Victorian rowhouses, brownstones, and 19th-century brick buildings — much of it built when lime mortar, not modern Portland cement, was the standard. That's the thing most washing companies get wrong here: old lime mortar is soft, and a high-pressure wand pointed at a joint will blow it out in seconds.

The damage is usually invisible from the sidewalk until the next hard rain, when water drives through the opened joint into the masonry wall behind. On a preserved rowhouse that repair runs into thousands of dollars — plus the historic-district paperwork if you're near Washington Park or downtown.

Our Troy soft-wash approach is built for exactly this housing stock. Professional cleaning solutions do the work — not pressure. We soft-wash brick, brownstone, and painted masonry at lower-than-garden-hose PSI, mask around failing joints, and keep water off the wall rather than driving it in. Hudson River humidity feeds green algae and mildew on shaded sides; the treatment kills it at the root rather than just bleaching the color out.