What makes Fort Walton Beach hard on an exterior?
A lot of Fort Walton Beach housing stock is 1960s–80s block and stucco, which cracks along the same hairlines every cycle. Patching those properly before paint is the difference between a repaint that lasts six years and one that opens up again in two.
That puts Fort Walton Beach on a wash cycle of every 12 months — the a few miles inland band — against every 12 months for a typical inland Florida property. We work across Okaloosa Island, Cinco Bayou, Shalimar and the neighbourhoods around Eglin.
Why does Fort Walton Beach stucco need a gentler wash?
Because a lot of it is 1960s to 1980s block and stucco, and it has already cracked. Those buildings crack along the same hairlines every cycle, and a hairline crack is an open door for a pressure washer.
High pressure on aged stucco does not clean the crack, it widens it — and on the coast it then drives salt water to the metal lath behind the wall, which rusts and widens the crack further from the inside. A cleaning that causes rust bleed a year later is a bad bargain at any price.
So Fort Walton Beach stucco gets soft washed, and anything that turns out to be more than cosmetic gets flagged for stucco repair before it is painted rather than after.
How is a wash quoted in Fort Walton Beach?
By surface. Concrete tolerates real pressure, coated walls and roofs do not, and the mix of substrates around Okaloosa Island decides the price more than the square footage does.
Which is why the estimate is a visit rather than a number over the phone: a quote given blind is a guess about substrate, and substrate is what decides whether a surface gets 3,000 psi or 300. The visit is free, we bring the certificate of insurance without being asked, and you get the method for each surface in writing. Request an estimate or call the crew directly.