Pressure Washing in Milford, MI

Five-year census estimates through 2024 put the median home in the Village of Milford at 1973. Of the village's 2,772 homes, 477 were built in 1939 or earlier, and 1,033 of them, over a third, predate 1960. Where a house that age has painted wood, a high-pressure stream can pull flakes off at the edges, raise the grain and drive water into the seams. So older homes get a test on a hidden spot first, then a mild cleaner rinsed off at low pressure.

A section of the village went onto the National Register in 2000, listed as North Milford Village Historic District, with Greek Revival and Italianate architecture named in the listing. The 2009 master plan describes the residential streets east of Main as short, tree-lined blocks of single-family homes of varying ages. On houses there, we wash at low pressure and try the cleaner on a hidden patch of any paint.

Beyond the village, township parcels get big. Oakland County's land use count for 2025, which leaves out the village, finds 1,445 single-family lots of at least one acre but under 2.5, and 990 more of 2.5 acres or larger but under 5. According to the 2009 master plan, many subdivisions here were designed around the ponds, woods and hilly ground. On a lot like that, the walls nearest the trees get little sun, and algae grows on them and on the decks below. We find those walls first and start the wash there.

Concrete takes more pressure than anything else we wash. A rotary cleaner run flat over a drive, walk or patio works it in steady passes to avoid wand stripes, and if a slab has started to flake, we lower the pressure and tell you what it will look like after. Decks are the opposite. Cedar and treated pine roughen at a pressure concrete shrugs off, and composite keeps any line a wand draws in it, so the deck gets a setting of its own, tried first on a single board.

The river runs through the middle of the village, past Central Park and along the Mill Pond, and Pettibone Creek meets it in town. Kent Lake sits in the southwest of the township, inside Kensington Metropark, and Sears Lake is in the northwest. Where a yard slopes toward the water, we set up that side of the wash to send the rinse water onto the grass. Tell us about any slope toward water when you book.

We wash between April and November. In spring, the wash takes off the dirt winter left behind and the growth on the north and wooded sides, and a fall visit clears patios and decks before the snow. Windows go best straight after a wash, and if the gutters are due, we'll do them that day too.