Full-exterior commercial washing for offices, retail, and light industrial — scheduled, insured, OSHA-trained. Free estimates — (916) 404-0288. Serving every Sacramento neighborhood — Sacramento County.
Sacramento gets essentially no rain from May into October, and the building shows it: valley ag dust and oak pollen bake onto parapet caps, window bands, and awning tops until light-colored stucco reads tan. Buildings backing onto the W/X freeway or Business 80 add a layer of exhaust film on top. Then winter flips the problem — tule fog keeps north elevations damp for days at a stretch, and algae streaks show up on EIFS and painted stucco from Natomas office parks to Stockton Boulevard strip retail.
That cycle is why the first question on any Sacramento quote is how long the facade has gone between washes — soil load drives labor more than square footage does. Wash Works is a commercial-first outfit run by Chuck and Jagger Hewitt out of Orangevale, a short run down to the central grid or Power Inn. Crews are licensed, insured, and OSHA-trained, the chemistry is biodegradable and watershed-safe, and dispatch runs 24/7 for after-hours windows. Quotes are free, written, and back to you within one business day.
Downtown is glass curtain wall and state office towers along Capitol Mall — window-crew coordination, low-pressure rinse, nothing aggressive near the seals. Midtown's J and K Street blocks still carry early-1900s brick laid in soft lime mortar; hit that with high pressure and you pull mortar joints, so it gets detergent, dwell time, and a gentle rinse.
Out in Natomas, the office parks off Truxel Road are newer stucco and EIFS — strict soft-wash territory. Power Inn and Florin Perkins are concrete tilt-up warehouses that can take a hot-water pressure pass. Strip retail along Stockton Boulevard, Florin Road, and Fulton Avenue is mostly painted stucco with steel awnings and security grilles, each needing its own approach.
Height and footage set the baseline. A single-story strip building on Florin Road needs no lift; a four-story office near Capitol Mall means boom time, fall protection, and slower production per square foot. Substrate mix matters next — a Midtown building that's brick below and EIFS above takes two chemistries and careful masking; a uniform tilt-up skin takes one.
Then come the Sacramento-specific variables: soil load after the six-month dry season — a first-time wash works harder than a building on a recurring schedule — plus sidewalk control on the central grid versus open lots off Power Inn, and wash-water handling. The central grid drains to a combined sewer; most of the rest of the city storm-drains to the American and Sacramento Rivers, so capture gets scoped block by block.
A typical call from a Power Inn property manager: two concrete tilt-up flex buildings that haven't been washed since before the tenants moved in. Parapets have gone grey with dust, algae streaks run below the scuppers on the north walls, dock doors carry forklift-exhaust shadowing, and every canopy corner holds webs.
We walk the site, put the scope and quote in writing, and email the COI to the management office before mobilizing. Crews come in on an evening window — soft wash on the painted panels, hot-water surface cleaning at entries and dock aprons, de-webbing under the canopies — then a final walkthrough with the manager. Tenants open the next morning; nobody's operation stopped.
Property manager walkthrough — we document substrate types, lift requirements, parking impacts, and after-hours scheduling needs.
Storefronts, landscaping, and HVAC intakes get protected. Any chemistry is contained per local watershed rules.
Painted stucco and EIFS get soft-washed. Concrete dividers and walkways get a high-PSI surface-cleaner pass.
Property manager walkthrough on completion. COI and invoice delivered the same day.
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Free written quote across all of Sacramento. We dispatch 24/7.