Driveway cleaningin Boca Raton, FL.

Boca's reclaimed water irrigates lawns across the club communities and beyond, and a sprinkler that throws water past the grass lands on the same strip of drive every watering morning. Reclaimed water carries dissolved minerals and some nutrients, so that strip grows algae faster and picks up a mineral stain the rest of the drive does not have. Light pavers show it first.

The wash and post-treatment take it off and slow it down, and the mineral staining gets its own treatment. What stops it coming back is the head: turned or lowered so it waters the lawn and not the pavers. On a long motor court with several zones, that small adjustment can do more than the cleaning. Michael can point out which heads are the problem.

Boca Villas, about 425 homes behind Mizner Park, was first built in the early 1950s, and Camino Gardens' ranch homes went up in the 1960s on the land of the old Africa U.S.A. park. Many drives there are old poured concrete, worn and open on top, with decades of oil and leaf stains from the trees over them.

Old concrete gets a pressure it can take, a longer pre-treatment and a post-treatment to kill what lives in the pores. Oil and rust get their own products. A clean makes the drive even and clean but cannot put back worn surface, and Michael says so before starting. Sidewalks and swales are included if you want them. Leaf stains get their own treatment in the same visit.

In the club communities and Boca Del Mar, most drives are pavers or travertine. Plenty of owners want them cleaned, not sealed, and that is a complete job on its own: lower pressure, a slower pass so the joint sand stays, a post-treatment, and edges finished by hand. Travertine joints are never aimed at directly, because the stone edges chip.

Sealing is worth adding when the joints have washed low, the color has faded or old sealer is failing, and it can be quoted together with one setup. If none of that applies, the drive is simply cleaned. Tire marks on light pavers get a degreaser and dwell, and leaf tannin from the canopy gets its own treatment. Either way, you get one number before anything starts.