Hot-water surface cleaning for driveways, walkways, patios, and all flatwork concrete. Serving every Citrus Heights neighborhood — Sacramento County.
A driveway on Mariposa Avenue or in Sunrise Vista is often the same slab the builder poured when the house went up in the sixties. Fifty-plus years of Sacramento Valley sun have burned off the cream layer, so the aggregate sits near the surface and holds grime deeper than newer concrete ever will. Add the mature shade trees this city grew up under — especially along the Arcade Creek greenbelt — and the shaded half of a slab grows black algae every winter while the sunny half just collects tire dust.
Newer pours are a different animal. Stock Ranch and the infill off Auburn Boulevard carry stamped and colored concrete that can't be treated like a fifty-year-old slab — too much pressure strips sealer and flattens the release color. Our shop sits one town over in Orangevale, so we're in Citrus Heights most weeks running both kinds of work, and we set the machine for the slab in front of us instead of dragging one setting from street to street.
Most of what we wash here is broom-finished gray concrete poured with the original tract homes — Sunrise Vista, Birdcage Heights, and the older streets off Greenback Lane. Plenty of those drives started as single-car strips and got widened over the decades, so one driveway can carry three pours of different ages, each weathering its own way. Getting them to read as one clean surface takes hot water and a steady surface-cleaner pass, not raw pressure. The seventies pockets add exposed aggregate, which traps grime between the stones, and Stock Ranch brings stamped, sealed work that needs the machine dialed down. We check what we're standing on before anyone pulls a trigger.
Square footage sets the baseline, but in Citrus Heights the bigger swing is condition. A slab that hasn't been washed since the Clinton administration takes more degreaser, more dwell time, and a slower pass than one on an annual schedule. Side-yard RV pads — common in the older tracts here — add area fast, and they're usually where the worst oil and rust staining lives. Stamped or sealed concrete takes longer per foot because it has to be cleaned at lower pressure. Bundling the walkway and back patio into the same visit costs less than booking them separately, since setup is the expensive part. Every quote is free, in writing, and back to you within one business day.
A typical call is a two-car drive a block from Rusch Park: late-sixties slab, black along the fence line where the neighbor's tree keeps it shaded, an oil shadow where a project car sat through last winter, and moss packed into the expansion joints. We pre-treat the oil and the joints, run the hot-water surface cleaner at a pressure the old concrete can handle, wand the edges the machine can't reach, then rinse with biodegradable, watershed-safe detergents. Figure about two hours. A sixty-year-old slab never comes back showroom-new — but the before-and-after against the sidewalk is night and day, and it holds through the next wet season.
Heavy oil, transmission, or rust spots get hit with degreaser before the surface cleaner ever touches them.
A pressurized surface cleaner delivers an even, edge-to-edge pass — no zebra striping, no missed strips.
Edges, expansion joints, and trim work get a manual wand pass so the whole slab looks uniform.
Everything gets a fresh-water rinse so detergent residue doesn't dry on the surface.
Don't see yours? Call (916) 404-0288 — we're happy to talk it through.
Free written quote across all of Citrus Heights. We dispatch 24/7.