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Exterior cleaning in Lakeway and Bee Cave
One page for Lakeway, Bee Cave and the Lake Travis side generally, because the houses out here share a set of problems that the flatter suburbs do not.
Big elevations, and mostly stone
Two-story and three-story homes with substantial roof area are the norm rather than the exception here, and a great deal of the cladding is limestone, stone veneer or stucco.
All three are soft-wash surfaces. Limestone in particular erodes under pressure and does not recover, which makes the wrong contractor an expensive mistake on a house of this size.
Ashe juniper, and what it does to a gutter
The hill country's dominant tree is Ashe juniper, usually called cedar locally. It sheds a fine, scaly litter that packs down far more densely than oak leaf and is much harder to flush out of a downspout.
Combine that with the steeper lots out here — where downspouts often discharge onto a slope rather than a flat bed — and a blocked run has somewhere much worse to send its water.
Wells, and why they change the window job
Plenty of properties past the Lakeway line are on well water rather than city supply, and well water in this geology can be considerably harder than what comes out of a municipal tap.
If your irrigation runs off a well and it reaches the glass, expect spotting to return faster than a friend in town would describe.
Where we go
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- Rough Hollow
- Spanish Oaks
- Steiner Ranch
- Falconhead
- The Hills
- Lakeway proper
Questions about Lakeway & Bee Cave homes
Our house is limestone. Will washing damage it?
No. Nothing about a soft wash puts enough force on the stone to move its face, which is the whole reason it is what we use here. A pressure washer will, and on limestone that damage is permanent. If anyone quotes you a pressure wash on limestone, that is the moment to get a second quote.
We are on a well. Does that change anything?
For roof and siding work, no. For glass, yes — harder water means faster spotting, and it is worth knowing that going in so the result does not surprise you.
The driveway is steep and the gutters discharge onto the slope. Is that a problem?
It is worth looking at. On a grade, a blocked downspout does not just overflow at the gutter — it concentrates water somewhere downhill that was never meant to take it. We clear the runs and the downspouts and will tell you what we see about where the water is actually going.