Got called to see if I could “fix” work performed by another company. I should probably know the answer but, what went wrong??? What am I looking at??? Is it etched???
Driveway is almost 3 years old. The property sits right on the water in Southern NJ. It sees direct sunlight, so it shouldn’t have needed a heavy duty cleaning. Homeowner said the PW company used a surface cleaner approx 14" (probably larger, but that’s what he said).
That’s the thing though - it didn’t really need a cleaning in the first place.
What you are seeing isn’t dirt/grime/mold/etc. The driveway looked better BEFORE the clean. Those darker marks appeared after the cleaning. They were never there to start.
This is a pic of the house they had taken in late spring this year. It’s not the best photo because it is more of the house than just the driveway itself.
I have a random question for you full-timers on a house like this would you just treat those plants in the window like any other and rinse. Or would they need to be moved I feel like they would just cause problems.
I need to be rather certain because the builder was the person who recommended me to the homeowner. Unfortunately, the homeowner didn’t ask until after he hired the McDonald’s power washer in our area. I don’t want to throw the builder under the bus. The homeowner is pissed and will be going after someone.
Dude, that’s not your problem, and you shouldn’t make it. I would go to he homeowner take your wand and do a very small area and show him it’s clean and that the last guy uncovered imperfections in the concrete.
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Walk away…
Remember reading a ton of that phrase when I was doing all my starting out research here.
One problem. The builder (the one who referred me to the homeowner and is CC’d in all our emails) contributes 6 figures to me a year. Really don’t want to piss him off by telling the homeowner it is imperfections in his concrete (sub-contractor of the builder).
Or it was going to rain ,so they put plastic on the fresh concrete and put 2 by 6 boards on the plastic to hold it down,in my opinion that is a substandard concrete finishing job
The absolutely best thing you can do is stay out of it. It looks clean to me. You can try a little spot, but it’s clean. Fully 1/2 the drives around me that have been poured the last 5-6 years look like that. Just the moisture in the concrete when it was finished. But could be several reasons. See link below and click on the sub headings in the article.
The good thing is as it gets a little dirtier will become less obvious.
And yes, it is definitely clean. It just doesn’t “look” right. I think I need to leave the homeowner out of it and give the builder a call tomorrow to discuss. I’ll let him know what I (all of you) think and he can do whatever he pleases from there.