Concrete patio by blue doors, dark with black mildew and dirt

The same concrete patio washed to an even light gray

Pressure washing in Stephens City, VA

Chem-Clean's silver pickup towing the enclosed trailer that carries the water tank

Since 1989

Front Royal, VA. Our own rig and our own water, with the owner on every job.

The Northern Virginia Daily 2023 Best Of badge, Front Royal and Warren County

The Northern Virginia Daily 2025 Best Of badge, Front Royal and Warren County

Best of Front Royal & Warren County

The Northern Virginia Daily, 2023 and 2025.

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Free quotes. Most jobs priced from a few photos, within 24 hours.

Gutters that hang over the sidewalk

Stephens City was chartered in 1758 as Stephensburg, and its old core is the Newtown-Stephensburg Historic District, added to the Virginia Landmarks Register in 1991 and the National Register in 1992. According to the National Register nomination, the district reaches from the buildings facing Main Street one block east and west, about 65 acres holding 147 contributing buildings and sites.

The nomination explains the streetscape too. Early residents built at the very front edge of their lots and kept the land behind for gardens and livestock, so the houses sit with hardly any setback. Among the features that set the district apart, it names tree-lined streets and “unusual gutters that extend overhead from the houses, over the sidewalk.”

On those houses, anyone on the sidewalk passes right under the gutter, so its outside face is the part the street sees. We wash that face, clean out whatever has collected inside, and clear each downspout, on houses of two stories or three.

Porches, cornices, and siding along Main Street

Some of the oldest houses here are 18th-century log dwellings, and the district inventory lists several as log covered in weatherboard, so the face you see from the street is wood siding, not logs. Most of the late-19th-century houses are two-story frame I-houses, and many older ones, log houses among them, were updated in that era with a one-story Folk Victorian front porch. A few carry bracketed cornices under the eaves. Brick houses stand among them, along with frame houses that now wear vinyl or aluminum siding, and the nomination notes very little new construction or demolition on Main Street since 1941.

Painted wood, log, brick, vinyl, aluminum: we wash every one of them. Above the porch roofs and cornices, we soft wash the main roof itself, metal, asphalt shingle, or cedar shake alike, and moss and lichen come off it as well.

The town code has the Historic Preservation Commission judge every proposal by the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. Standard 7 forbids damaging treatments such as sandblasting and says surface cleaning, where it's appropriate, must use “the gentlest means possible.” The Town's 2025 district brochure treats minor repairs, painting, and re-roofing as routine upkeep, while changing a siding or roofing material goes to the Commission for review. Owners with questions are asked to contact Town staff, who decide whether a project needs a Certificate of Appropriateness.

Basement stairwells, landings, and the patio out back

Away from the sidewalk, basement stairwells and their landings are on our list as well; we wash just about anything outdoors that can be washed. A surface cleaner does the driveway, the patio, and any pavers.

Basement stairwell steps and landing with green algae and moss before cleaning

The same basement stairwell steps and landing after washing, still wet

Algae and dirt on a concrete landing and red flagstone pavers before cleaning

Washed concrete slab at the top of a basement stairwell, still wet

From a few photos to a clean gutter line

Send pictures of the gutters, walls, or roof by text to 540-514-5916 and say how many stories the house has and whether it sits in the historic district.
We answer within 24 hours. Most jobs are priced straight from the pictures; for a very involved one, we come by first. A quote costs you nothing.
Satisfaction guaranteed. If we missed anything, tell us and we'll come back and make it right. You can settle up with cash, a check, a card, Venmo, or Zelle.

Ask for a quote in Stephens City

Chem-Clean dates to 1989, and The Northern Virginia Daily gave Chem-Clean its Best of Front Royal & Warren County award in 2023 and again in 2025. The quote form is on this page, the number is 540-514-5916 for a call or a text, and we reply within 24 hours.