When maintained, exposed brick adds character and warmth to a home, regardless of whether it’s used for pavers, a chimney, or exterior walls. However, when brick begins to deteriorate, the charm dissipates, and restoring its appearance becomes expensive. Enter brick cleaning. If you want to maintain the look of your external brick, you need to clean it regularly. Professional power washing is most effective, as it cuts through the dirt and grime that erode brick while rejuvenating the appearance of exterior brick.
Why Your Grand Junction Home Needs Professional Brick Cleaning
Professional brick cleaning isn’t only about aesthetics. Yes, brick rejuvenation will improve your home’s exterior and curb appeal, but cleaning exposed brick has several other benefits. If you’re wondering whether spending on professional brick cleaning is a good idea, consider the five reasons other homeowners choose professional brick cleaning to maintain their exposed brick.
Save Yourself the Time Attempting to do a Thorough Brick Cleaning
DIY options for cleaning brick seem like the sensible option until you attempt to do it yourself. The steps are simple enough to follow, but the process of cleaning the brick, especially if it takes up a considerable portion of your exterior, is excruciatingly protracted. Unless you want to spend several hours on exterior brick cleaning, the sensible option is to hire professional brick rejuvenation experts who use the correct tools and materials to clean brick, ensuring the integrity of exposed brick is maintained.
Don’t Damage Your Brick With DIY Solutions
Power washing brick seems simple enough until you attempt to do it yourself. Most homeowners don’t know how to avoid water damage to their brick when power washing and, in many cases, only exacerbate any damage, causing the brick to erode quicker because you’ve chipped and cracked the exposed brick.
Professional brick cleaning companies like Curbside Cleaners use power washing — a combination of heated water, pressure, and commercial-grade cleaning solution — to rejuvenate brick and prevent damage while cleaning.
Increase Your Property Value
In Grand Junction alone, property prices have experienced a 21% increase in value year over year. If you’re thinking of selling your home, you may want to cash in on that steep increase. To do that, however, you need to maximize buyer interest by concentrating on your home’s curbside appeal. Dull and deteriorating brick will likely turn interested buyers away because they’ll wonder if you aren’t maintaining your home’s exterior, what are the chances you’re maintaining its interior?
But, even buyers who aren’t concerned with the interior may overlook your property because of the cost they’ll need to invest in repairing exterior brick.
Don’t let that happen to your property. Instead, capture the interest of Grand Junction buyers by getting your brick to glean again with professional brick cleaning.
Extend the Lifespan of Your Brick
Brick rejuvenation has more utility than simply renewing the facade of your home, it plays an integral role in maintaining the health of brick. Most brick walls are protected from the elements through a thick layer of cement. Exposed brick doesn’t have that benefit. Instead, exposed brick has to withstand the elements without any protection. Although there’s not that much rain or snow in Grand Junction, exposure to the elements, through changing temperatures and the snow and rain we do experience can shorten the life of brick, requiring you to replace it sooner. Power washing removes the debris and dirt that can build up around brick and erode it, keeping it as good as new for longer.
Reduce Costs
If you want to stress over an expense, research the cost of replacing brick. Like most other things, the cost has skyrocketed in recent years thanks to inflation and some supply chain issues. Since there’s no way to mask damage to brick, you’ll have to restore the portion of the wall that is crumbling.
You can prevent that expense by prioritizing regular brick cleaning, considering brick cleaning helps maintain the integrity of the brick and supports it against the elements.
Think about it this way: you can invest a nominal amount in brick rejuvenation every few years or fork over a hefty sum to restore that same brick once it starts eroding. The savvy choice is to maintain the brick.
We recommend the savvy choice to homeowners as experts in brick cleaning. Considering the team at Curbside Cleaners has worked on homes in the Grand Junction, Colorado, and surrounding areas like Clifton, Fruita, Palisade, Redlands, and White Water, we know what a difference brick cleaning has made to local homeowners.
Although brick cleaning doesn’t seem that important, our experience helping homeowners maintain and restore their exposed brick means we know the positive impact brick rejuvenation has on a property.
If you want to experience that same impact, contact our team for a no-obligation quote for your property.