Soft washing for a four-block-wide island grid where the ocean side takes salt spray and the bay side takes tide water, scheduled around the summer crowds.
Power washing in Seaside Heights means working on a borough laid out for summer cottages before the First World War and incorporated in 1913 from parts of Berkeley Township and what is now Toms River Township. The bay bridge opened in 1914, the carousel pier followed in 1915, and the population grew 159% between the 1920 and 1930 counts. The 1955 Freeman’s Fire started at Ocean Terrace and Dupont Avenue and took 85 buildings, so those blocks came back mid-century, not pre-war cottages. Since 2012, new houses go up on pilings. One short street can hold all three eras, each washing differently.
Ocean Terrace and the avenues running down to the sand take the hardest wear. Salt spray dries on vinyl and leaves a dull, chalky film. Shaded walls and north roof slopes grow black streaks people mistake for permanent stains. Both come off with a soft wash: low pressure, cleaning solution doing the work. High pressure pushes water behind siding and strips granules off shingles, so it has no place in house washing or roof cleaning. Elevated homes add pilings, stairs and deck boards carrying the same film. Rental buildings and storefronts near the boardwalk get the same treatment on a commercial schedule before the season opens.
Bay Boulevard and the west-end streets fight a different problem. Tidal backflooding pushes up through the storm drains on ordinary high tides, not just in storms, leaving a brown line across siding, foundation walls and driveways. The ground is sand about three feet above sea level, so concrete and pavers stay damp and hold algae and moss in shade. Driveway and concrete cleaning, deck and patio work, and gutter cleaning on the older bungalows and two-family rentals are most of the work here. Lots are tight: the residential minimum has run as small as 2,000 square feet at last check, so confirm current zoning with borough hall. There is no room for sloppy overspray onto a neighbor’s wall two feet away.
The calendar runs backwards from the mainland. Memorial Day through Labor Day the streets are packed and nobody wants a truck outside a rental, so the working stretch is October through April. Late fall gets a summer of salt, grease and boardwalk grit off before it sits all winter. March and April is when a house has to look new again for the first booking, right as pollen starts dusting everything yellow. Our trucks come over the Thomas A. Mathis Bridge, and we are on the peninsula often for work in Seaside Park and Lavallette. Ask for a free estimate; we will schedule around your renters.
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