Commercial pressure washing in Northville, MI

Working in Northville

Northville is about 8.5 miles from Canton, where Reliance Pressure Washing is based. Northville is one of the six towns named directly on their own website as part of their service area.

A historic downtown of retail frontage, and the surrounding township still has working horse property in it — which is why barns are a service line on this site.

What that means for the work

The two things that decide a commercial exterior job are the substrate and the access window, and neither is visible from a map. Painted concrete block, face brick, prefinished metal panel and EIFS each need a different method, and getting that wrong on a wall causes damage rather than leaving it dirty. The window — before a plaza opens, between shifts at a plant, an evening at a professional building — decides how the work is sequenced.

Both get settled by walking the property. That is also when the things that only you know come up: where the run-off goes, which tenant opens earliest, which elevation has the failing gutter that is the actual reason it streaks every year.

The Michigan part

In Wayne County the two problems that recur are organic growth on whichever elevation dries slowest, and de-icing salt in the concrete. The first is a soft-wash job. The second is the one that does structural rather than cosmetic damage, and washing the accumulated chloride out once the salt season ends is the single most useful visit of the year.