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What does pressure washing cost?

Counted live. These figures are read off the listings each time the page is built, so there is no author and no last-updated date to print.

Nothing in this trade is listed on Round The Way at the moment, so there is no price for us to report. We do not have national survey figures and we are not going to estimate any.

No prices listed for pressure washing today.

An opening here is an hour a business has available, so a trade can be empty one hour and full the next. Rather than estimate a price from nothing, we will tell you when somebody lists one — a standing alert is the only thing this page can honestly offer.

What pressure washing prices depend on

Why two jobs with the same name are not the same job. This part is about the work rather than about this site, so there are no figures in it — the figures on this page are all above, and all counted.

How much surface there is
This is an area job before it is anything else. A path, a driveway, a patio and a whole frontage are priced by how much ground has to be passed over, and the machine only cleans as fast as it cleans.
What the surface is made of
Concrete and block paving will take real pressure. Timber decking, render, painted brick and roof tiles will not — those are soft washed at low pressure with a chemical doing the work instead, which is a slower and more careful process. Using the wrong one is how a patio ends up striped and a roof ends up leaking.
What is growing or spilled on it
Loose dirt rinses off. Algae, lichen and moss need a biocide and time to work, sometimes with a return visit; engine oil, paint and rust need a specific degreaser or remover each, and some staining in porous stone never fully comes out.
Whether it is sealed afterwards
Re-sanding the joints in block paving and sealing the surface are separate pieces of work done after the cleaning, and they carry their own materials and their own drying time.
Water, power and where the run-off goes
The machine needs a supply and somewhere for the water to go. A site with no outside tap means bringing a tank; run-off carrying chemicals, oil or paint may not be allowed into a surface drain at all, and containing and collecting it is extra work.
Getting to it
Height and access decide as much as area. A ground-floor wall and the same wall two stories up are different jobs, and hoses only reach so far from where the van can park.

What changes the price on Round The Way

Three things about the listings above in particular, as against the trade in general. Only three, because these are the only ones we can actually stand behind.

How long the job takes

Every listing above is a block of a business's day with a length on it, set by the business rather than by us. A longer block is more of their day, and it is priced that way by the person whose day it is.

Whether it needs parts

Parts are handled apart from the price on the card, and the booking page says which way round it is for the service you are looking at: either parts are included in that price, or they are quoted separately. Where they are quoted the price on the card is the labor, the business sends you a price for the part in your messages once they can see what is needed, and nothing is fitted until you approve that price.

Who you are booking

Every business on Round The Way sets its own prices, sets aside its own amount of time, and lists only the parts of the city it covers. There is no rate card here and no suggested price: two businesses can list the same job for different amounts and both of them are right about their own work.

Doing it yourself, or booking someone

The cheapest version of this job is sometimes not booking it at all, and a page about what it costs should say where that line falls.

Doing it yourself

A domestic electric washer will handle a path, a patio and a car, and hiring a larger one for a weekend is a real option for a driveway. Work in overlapping passes at a steady distance, and keep well away from render, timber, window seals and anything painted.

Worth booking someone for

Roofs, render, anything above head height and anything with a biological growth that needs treating rather than blasting are the cases to hand over. So is any surface where the run-off has to be contained. Most of the damage this trade repairs was done by somebody with a domestic machine and too much confidence.

Where the price can come down

Things that genuinely make this job smaller or quicker. None of them is a discount from us — we do not set these prices and have none to give.

  • Clear the area first — furniture, pots, cars and bins. It is all time inside the block you booked.
  • Do the whole of a surface at once rather than in pieces. Half a clean driveway looks worse than a dirty one, and the setting up is the same either way.
  • Ask whether treating growth and returning is cheaper than trying to blast it off in one go. For lichen and moss it usually is, and it does less harm to the surface.
  • An outside tap and a nearby socket save the job the time of working around not having them.

How to hire pressure washing on Round The Way

What there is to go on before you book, and what there is not.

Read the price and the length together

Every listing is a block of one business's day: a price, and the time they have set aside for the work. The cheapest is not always the same job — a shorter block is less of their day — so every listing carries both, and the booking page shows both again before you commit to anything.

Check what the price covers

The booking page says whether parts are included in the price or quoted separately. Where they are quoted, the price is the labor, and the business sends you a price for the part in your messages once they can see what is needed.

Take the card at face value

A business is shown with a rating, a review and a count of completed jobs only where it has them, and with none of those where it has none. Nothing on a business's page is verified by us: a license or an insurance detail is what that business says about itself, and the issuing board's public register is the place to check one.

Check who turns up

The business's vehicle details are shown to you and the vehicle at your door has to match them. You give them a start code when they arrive, and photographs are taken before the work starts, while it is going on, and after it is finished.

Questions about what pressure washing costs

Where these figures come from, and what you are actually paying for.

Do I need an account?

Booking needs an account and a card. Making the account is an email: you give an email address at the moment you book and type the six digits we send to it, then add a card on the same screen. Looking, comparing prices and messaging a business need no account at all, and neither does opening a booking you already have — the link in your confirmation still works on any phone.

Are these average prices for pressure washing?

No. Every figure on this page is a price a business on Round The Way is asking today for an appointment it has open, counted at the moment the page loaded. We have no national survey for this trade and we do not estimate one.

Who sets these prices?

The business doing the work. Every price here was listed by the business whose name is on the appointment, and Round The Way does not set or suggest any of them.

Does the price include parts?

It depends on the service, and the booking page says which before you book: parts are either included in the price or quoted separately. Where they are quoted, the business sends you a price in your messages once they can see what is needed, and nothing is fitted until you approve that price.

When do I pay?

You pay on this site when you book, by card, and the price you see is the price you pay — nothing is added at checkout. Round The Way holds that payment until the job is done and then pays the business. The labor is paid for here, on the site, at the moment you book, with no cash and nothing paid at the door.

Why is the same job listed at two different prices?

Because two different businesses listed it. Each one sets its own prices, sets aside its own amount of time for the work, and covers its own part of the city, so the same job name can be worth different amounts to each of them.

What does it cost to cancel?

It depends how close to the appointment you are. More than 48 hours away, all of it comes back. Inside 48 hours, three quarters comes back. Inside 12 hours, a quarter — the business has kept that time free and turned other work away for it. Change your mind within 30 minutes of booking and you get all of it back, as long as the appointment is still at least three hours away. It works the same way in both directions: a business that cancels on you pays the same.

Find pressure washing near you

How booking one works

Three steps, and nothing between them that needs a phone call.

  1. Find an hour that's available

    Every listing on Round The Way is available time from a nearby business. You are choosing a particular hour from a particular business, not asking around for quotes.

  2. Book it, and it is held

    The hour comes off that business's day the moment you book it and stops being offered to anybody else. What happens about money is answered in the questions above.

  3. They arrive, and the work is recorded

    The vehicle at your door has to match the details you were shown, you give them a start code, and photographs are taken before, during and after the work.

Other cost guides

The rest of home improvement, priced the same way this page is. Each one counts its own figures off the businesses on Round The Way the moment it is opened.

Every cost guide on Round The Way

Every price on this page was listed by the business that would do the work, and counted at the moment the page was built. It is what they are asking today, not an average of the trade.