Pressure Washing & Soft Washing in Solon, Ohio
Solon publishes its own housing data, so the age, the style and the materials of nearly every house in the city are a matter of public record.
Half of Solon's single-family stock is Colonial, about 20 percent is split level, another 20 percent ranch, with a small share of bungalow and contemporary. The median year built is 1977, roughly 64 percent went up in 1970 or later, and the 1980s alone account for about 24 percent — so the dominant property is a 40-to-50-year-old colonial or split with original-era siding, a mature tree canopy and a driveway of the same vintage. Above that sits a genuine luxury tier: Signature of Solon around the country club, Neptune Oval Estates, Cambridge Park, S.O.M. Hills, Huntington Woods and Oakview Estates, with large custom houses on tree-lined streets, where the elevations are tall and the hardscape runs long.
Areas We Work in Solon
Solon is a subdivision city, and homeowners here identify by allotment. The 1970s and '80s colonials and splits across the older allotments share one surface package; Signature of Solon and the estate subdivisions are a different proposition — large stone elevations, custom hardscape and golf-course frontage where finish quality is the entire point.
- Signature of Solon
- Neptune Oval Estates
- Cambridge Park
- S.O.M. Hills
- Huntington Woods
- Oakview Estates
- Hunt Club Meadows
- Forest Glen
- Cheswick II
- South Side Park
- Villas of Emerald Woods
- Longview Heights
Surfaces and Conditions in Solon
A 1977 colonial in Solon typically means two full stories of siding, a steep roof with multiple planes, and a driveway poured around the same time — so the job is soft washing at height without touching the shingle, oxidation treatment on the sun-facing walls, and concrete restoration on a drive that has held nearly fifty winters of salt. Split levels put siding low to the grade and to the mulch line, which is where splash staining and green growth start. The newer estate homes flip the emphasis to hardscape and masonry: stone veneer, paver drives, pool decks and patio expanses that need joint-safe cleaning rather than raw pressure.
Older and Historic Properties
Solon keeps a small historic core downtown, and the Solon Historical Society has run a museum in the old Disciple Church since 1968 — a short list of genuinely old buildings in a city that is otherwise modern. The bigger factor here is association standards: condominium and villa communities like the Villas of Emerald Woods set their own exterior appearance expectations, so siding and walkway work there is judged against what the rest of the row looks like, not against how the one unit looked last year.
What Exterior Cleaning Costs in Solon
A 1977 Solon colonial is two full stories with a multi-plane roof, and it is priced on its square footage like anything else — {{price:house-wash:2000}} at 2,000 square feet of home, {{price:house-wash:2500}} at 2,500. Split levels sit in the same table. The driveway poured with the house is {{price:driveway:two-car-driveway}} for a two-car and has held close to fifty winters of salt, which is usually the honest limit on how far it comes back.
Every residential price is published. Find your home’s square footage — or let us work it out from your address — and you have your price. See the full price list.
Landmarks Near Our Solon Work
- Signature of Solon Country Club
- South Chagrin Reservation
- Solon Center for the Arts
- SOM Center Road
- Solon public square
Commercial Work in Solon
Solon concentrated its retail and restaurant districts around the public square along SOM Center Road, so that work sits in one walkable trade area. The city's industrial parks put loading docks and service areas and equipment pads on a scale the retail core does not have, and those surfaces carry oil and hydraulic fluid rather than algae. Petroleum does not respond at all to the chemistry that lifts organic growth — it needs heat and a degreaser, and washing it with the wrong product mostly moves it to a new part of the slab.
- SOM Center Road
- Solon town center and public square
- Solon commercial and industrial parks
Services Popular in Solon
- House Washing in Solon
- Roof Soft Washing in Solon
- Driveway Cleaning in Solon
- Patio Cleaning
- Loading Dock & Service Area Cleaning
- Industrial Surface Cleaning
The ones naming Solon go to a page written about this city’s surfaces, with the full price table on it.
What to Expect
Order matters more on a Solon property than on most, because the surfaces are stacked and each one drains onto the one below it. Roof runoff carries loosened growth down onto the siding, and the siding rinse carries onto the drive, so a drive cleaned first is a drive that has to be cleaned twice. That is also why the three services together take less time than the same three booked as separate visits. If your community sets an exterior appearance standard, the row is the benchmark rather than how your own house looked last year — and it is worth reading your association documents first, because some communities here already contract part of the exterior upkeep.
Nearby Service Areas
- Exterior cleaning in Hudson, OH · Summit County
- Exterior cleaning in Cleveland, OH · Cuyahoga County
Learn More
- Why Your Siding Chalks — and Why a Wash Alone Will Not Bring the Color Back
- Seven Northeast Ohio Companies Advertise a Roof Warranty. Two of Them Tell You What It Is.
- What Exterior Cleaning Actually Costs in Northeast Ohio — and Why
- That Chalky White Film on Your Siding: What Oxidation Actually Is
- Black Streaks, Moss & Lichen: What’s Actually Happening to Your Roof
Solon Exterior Cleaning Questions
Why is the bottom of my split-level siding the dirtiest part?
Because split levels put siding low to the grade and to the mulch line, which is exactly where splash staining and green growth start. Rain coming off the roof hits the ground and comes back up onto the panel, and the mulch bed holds moisture and organic material against the lower course. That band often needs a different approach than the rest of the elevation — treatment aimed at organic growth, plus attention to keeping runoff out of the beds themselves. We treat it as its own zone on the walk-through rather than assuming one pass across the whole wall will even it out.
Do you really travel to the outer cities, or mostly stay near Canton?
We travel. Cleveland, Solon, Youngstown, Mansfield, and Dover are regular work rather than exceptions. Because they are a longer drive, jobs in those directions are scheduled as full days or grouped with other work heading the same way, so there is a little less flexibility on exact dates. Larger and multi-surface scopes are the easiest to fit at that distance. Build the estimate and you have the price; we confirm a realistic window when you accept it. You can get your own number right now: the [instant estimate](/instant-estimate) prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.
My 1977 colonial needs everything. Where should I start?
Roof first, then siding, then concrete — because each one drains onto the next. A colonial of that era in Solon typically means two full stories of siding, a steep roof with multiple planes, and a driveway poured around the same time. The roof is soft washed at height without touching the shingle. The sun-facing walls are usually chalked and need oxidation treatment rather than a wash. And a drive that has held nearly fifty winters of road salt is surface cleaning with stain treatment. Three different methods, three different outcomes, and most owners take them across two seasons. Why a wash leaves chalky siding chalky-looking, and what actually improves it, is explained in [why a wash will not bring the color back](/learn/why-a-house-wash-will-not-fix-chalky-siding). You can get your own number right now: the [instant estimate](/instant-estimate) prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.
Learn More — what siding oxidation is and why pressure washing won't fix it
If I clean my villa and my neighbors do not, will it look odd?
It can, and it is worth planning around. Condominium and villa communities like the Villas of Emerald Woods are read as a row rather than as individual units, so one unit cleaned to a higher standard than the two beside it draws the eye straight to the line between them. Where several owners are involved the result is better when the units are done together. If your community sets an exterior appearance expectation, that is the standard the work should meet.
Do you take commercial work in Cleveland and east-side suburbs like Solon?
Yes, and commercial is the larger share of what we do in the Cleveland metro: restaurant exteriors, gas station forecourts, retail plaza sidewalks and breezeways, drive-thru pads, and property-management maintenance for apartment and multi-building portfolios. Residential work there is mostly older siding, aluminum, cedar, and mixed-material homes, which get soft washing rather than high pressure. Multi-site and recurring scopes are documented zone by zone with access instructions and service windows so the work stays repeatable.
Do you clean loading docks and equipment pads, or only storefronts?
Both. Roughly 15 percent of Solon's land is zoned industrial, which means loading docks, service areas and equipment pads — surfaces where the soiling is oil and hydraulic fluid rather than algae. That is degreasing work with hot water and a different chemistry than a house-washing setup, and it is measured by surface and interval rather than by area alone. The retail and restaurant side is concentrated around the public square along SOM Center Road, where the wear is foot traffic and spilled food on entry concrete.
I have a single-story ranch in North Canton. What does a typical exterior cleaning cover?
On a one-story home a standard house wash covers the siding, soffit and fascia, and cleaning of the outside face of the gutters and downspouts, done as a low-pressure soft wash matched to vinyl, aluminum, or stone-veneer surfaces. Most North Canton homes we work on pair that with roof soft washing for shingle algae and with driveway or walkway cleaning, since the front approach is what shows from the street. The gutter clean-out is free with a roof soft wash and 25% off added to a house wash, and the rate is published on the [pricing page](/pricing). More on what the gutters do to a roof in [black streaks, moss and lichen](/learn/roof-moss-lichen-algae-damage).
Which surfaces on my house actually need cleaning first?
On a Louisville subdivision house, usually the drive and the roof before the siding. The asphalt shingle roof streaks on the shaded plane and is soft washed, never pressured. The vinyl or aluminum siding chalks and oxidizes on the sun side, which is an oxidation treatment rather than a wash and can often hold another season. And the wide concrete drives and aprons here hold road salt through spring, which is both the most visible surface and the one that degrades if it is left. You can get your own number right now: the [instant estimate](/instant-estimate) prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.
Learn More — what siding oxidation is and why pressure washing won't fix it
I have a mid-century ranch on Canton's north side. What actually needs doing?
Usually two things, and they are different jobs. The shaded roof slope carries algae streaking on asphalt shingle, which is a low-pressure soft wash and nothing else — walking or pressuring a shingle roof costs you shingle life. The siding on the elevation that has faced south for forty years is often chalky oxidation rather than dirt, meaning the finish itself has broken down, and a plain rinse only wets it down. Oxidation treatment is what corrects that. We tell you on the walk-through which of those two you actually have, because they carry different prices and different outcomes. Why a wash leaves chalky siding chalky-looking, and what actually improves it, is explained in [why a wash will not bring the color back](/learn/why-a-house-wash-will-not-fix-chalky-siding).
Learn More — what siding oxidation is and why pressure washing won't fix it
My siding looks dull on the sunny side but fine in the shade. Why?
Two different problems on one house. The sun-facing elevations have oxidized — the vinyl finish itself has broken down into a dull, chalky layer, which is why a rinse wets it and it dries back looking the same. That needs oxidation treatment, not washing. The shaded planes, usually the roof, hold moisture and grow algae, which is organic and releases with a soft wash. The 1990s and 2000s Medina subdivisions are almost entirely vinyl siding with asphalt shingle, which is the pairing where this split shows up most. Why a wash leaves chalky siding chalky-looking, and what actually improves it, is explained in [why a wash will not bring the color back](/learn/why-a-house-wash-will-not-fix-chalky-siding). You can get your own number right now: the [instant estimate](/instant-estimate) prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.
Learn More — what siding oxidation is and why pressure washing won't fix it