Pressure Washing in Strongsville, OH

The Town

About Strongsville, Cuyahoga County

Strongsville sends us more deck cleaning, gutter clearing and roof soft washing than new-construction work, because it is older surfaces under older trees. It is the largest community we serve, 24.63 square miles of southwestern Cuyahoga County with 46,491 residents at the 2020 census and a median age of 45.8, grown from 8,504 residents in 1960 to 43,858 by 2000 in one mid-century push. The east branch of the Rocky River runs through the city with the Cleveland Metroparks Mill Stream Run Reservation following it, which is where the shade and damp come from. The Interstate 71 and Ohio Turnpike intersection earned the modern nickname Crossroads of the Nation, inherited from an earlier rail junction. Older still are the Strongsville Clock Tower, the Alanson Pomeroy House that once served as an Underground Railroad stop, the John Stoughton Strong House and the Walter F. Ehrnfelt Covered Bridge. The city was established in 1818 as Township No. 5, named for John Stoughton Strong, who led the original settlers from the Connecticut Western Reserve, became a village in 1923 and a city in 1961.

Older Strongsville homes, gentler methods

On established Strongsville streets the surfaces are older and the trees are taller, and both change how the cleaning gets done. Asphalt shingles that have shed granules for decades cannot take pressure, so roofs are soft washed, meaning the algae streaking is treated and rinsed at low pressure rather than scrubbed. The same restraint applies to the wood decks common on these homes, where too much pressure furrows the soft grain between the harder rings and leaves marks that do not sand out. Heavy leaf fall from the older canopy fills the gutters faster than in the newer suburbs west of here, and shaded roof slopes hold moss wherever they stay damp. The upshot is a place where gutter clearing and roof and deck cleaning tend to lead the work, and the method matters far more than the horsepower.

Shade, moss and the river valleys in Strongsville

Strongsville's tree cover and its river valleys do the same thing to a roof, keeping it shaded and damp long after the rain has stopped, which is exactly what moss and roof algae need to spread. Homes backing onto the east branch of the Rocky River and the Mill Stream Run Reservation sit in that damp air most of the day, and their north slopes green up first. Soft washing is the only safe way to clear it, because scrubbing or pressuring an aged shingle knocks off the granules that protect it and shortens the life of the roof. The treatment kills the growth at the root and lets the next few rains carry it off, so the streaking fades without anyone walking a fragile roof harder than they need to.

Need pressure washing in Strongsville? Call (440) 598-5665 or request a free quote.

Current offer for Strongsville homes: book a house wash, get a free front walkway clean.

Permit and building questions belong with the city itself, and Strongsville's official site at strongsville.org is the authoritative source.