{"id":1003,"date":"2026-08-10T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:09:00","slug":"how-to-choose-a-pressure-washing-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/how-to-choose-a-pressure-washing-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven questions to ask before hiring anyone with a pressure washer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The barrier to entry in this trade is a trip to the hardware store, which means the gap between the best and worst operator in any town is enormous. Seven questions separate a professional pressure washing company<\/a> from a person with a machine.<\/p>\n

The questions, and the answers you want<\/h2>\n

1. How will you clean my siding?<\/strong> The only right answer involves soft washing. Anyone planning to put high pressure on vinyl or painted wood should not be allowed near it.<\/p>\n

2. How will you clean my roof?<\/strong> Same test, higher stakes. Low-pressure chemical treatment is the manufacturer-endorsed method; pressure on shingles takes years off the roof.<\/p>\n

3. Are you insured?<\/strong> Ask for the certificate, not the claim. Exterior cleaning involves ladders, water and other people’s property.<\/p>\n

4. Is the quote flat or hourly?<\/strong> Flat, in writing, before work starts.<\/p>\n

5. What do you do about my plants?<\/strong> The answer should include pre-wetting before solution goes on \u2014 that is the step that actually protects landscaping.<\/p>\n

6. Who is actually doing the work?<\/strong> Owner-operated or a crew, either is fine \u2014 but you want to know who shows up.<\/p>\n

7. What happens if I am not happy?<\/strong> A confident operator walks the job with you at the end and fixes anything that is not right before leaving.<\/p>\n

Red flags that end the conversation<\/h2>\n

A quote given without seeing the property or photos of it. Pressure on roofs or siding presented as normal. No insurance, or vagueness about it. Door-to-door pressure tactics with a today-only price. Any answer to the plant question that amounts to ‘it is fine’.<\/p>\n

None of these guarantee a bad job. All of them shift the odds in the wrong direction on work where the damage from a bad job exceeds the cost of a good one.<\/p>\n

Ask us all seven. We enjoy the questions \u2014 they are the ones that make the cheap-and-fast operators uncomfortable.<\/em> Read more about a professional pressure washing company →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The barrier to entry in this trade is a trip to the hardware store, which means the gap between the best and worst operator in any town is enormous. Seven questions separate a professional pressure washing company from a person with a machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressure-washing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressure.mobi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}