Pool Deck Cleaning in Brunswick, GA

That slick band at the water's edge is algae and mildew growth. Not dirt, not a stain you failed to prevent. It grows where the surface stays wet longest, and around a pool that is always the coping and the first foot or two of deck: splash-out, wet feet, a surface that never gets a chance to dry between swims.

Brunswick gives it everything it needs. Humidity sits above 70 percent most of the year, the town takes roughly fifty inches of rain, and our winters are too mild to knock the growth back the way a hard freeze does farther north. Freezes here are rare and short. Whatever is growing in September is still alive in February.

Shade finishes the job. A deck under live oaks or tucked against the north side of the house never fully dries, and the same canopy drops leaf tannin that stains the concrete dark within a season. The EPA's guidance on mold and mildew comes down to one thing that applies just as much outdoors as in: moisture is the control. Outside, in this climate, you do not get to control it.

So the honest version is this. We clean the deck, kill the growth at the root, and the surface comes back to its real color. In a humid subtropical climate, it will eventually start over — anyone telling you otherwise is setting you up for a complaint.

The island pool season runs roughly April to October, and spring, before the first swim, is the window for this work. Getting it done then means the deck is clean going into the months you actually use it.

How much does it cost to have a deck cleaned? It depends on a handful of things: the size of the deck, what it is made of (broom-finished concrete, pavers, travertine and cool deck are not the same job), how heavy and how long-standing the growth is, how the access works around pool equipment, furniture and a screen cage, and whether there is irrigation rust or oil staining that has to be treated by hand. We do not price a pool deck over the phone, because the surface and the severity are the job. The quote is free and written, no charge for the visit, one number for the whole job.

Once we start, that number does not change. Unless we find something we could not see on the walk — and then you approve it before we go any further.

How bad the growth is changes the job as much as the size does. A deck behind a newer home in Broadfield, off US 17 where most of the building has happened since 2000, is usually routine upkeep: a season of growth, an annual clean, and it looks after itself. A deck under heavy oak cover that has not been touched in several years takes more time — more dwell time, more work at the coping, on the same surface.

If you want a realistic idea before we come out, a couple of photos can give us a head start — most customers do exactly that — though we still walk the property before the number is written.

The protection happens at the same time as the cleaning.

Solution goes on the deck. It stays off the pool water. The rinse is directed away from the water, so what comes off the deck runs to the yard. If the pool has a cover, it goes on. Afterward, a quick skim handles anything that drifted in.

The landscaping protocol is the same one we run on every job, pool or not. Beds, hedges and grass get wetted down before the solution goes on, and rinsed again after. Wet foliage does not take up solution the way dry foliage does. Brown shrubs around a freshly cleaned deck are the sign of a job done in a hurry.

On marsh-front lots we work from the house side out, so the rinse runs onto the yard, away from the water. The tidal marsh is protected under Georgia's Coastal Marshlands Protection Act. Where the runoff goes matters here in a way it does not twenty miles inland.

You do not need to be home for exterior-only work like this, as long as the gates are open and any pets are put away.

Pool decks sit next to three other surfaces that people reasonably assume are included. They are not.

The screen enclosure or pool cage over the deck is a separate job, quoted and handled on its own — see cleaning a screen enclosure or pool cage for that method. Aluminum frame and fiberglass screen need low pressure from both sides, and pressure in the wrong place tears the screen or pops the spline. Pool cages under the oaks in Sea Palms and along Frederica Road stay damp year round, so it is a common pairing, but it is booked as its own work.

A front patio or a walkway outside the pool area falls under the full patio, pool deck and lanai cleaning service, which covers all three together.

A driveway or any other non-pool concrete is a separate visit, quoted on its own — see driveway and concrete cleaning — even though the surface cleaner and the pre-treatment look much the same from the outside.

House washing, roof cleaning, gutter cleaning, window cleaning and deck and fence cleaning are all separate services too. Bundling several of them into one visit is normal and costs less than separate trips, but each one is quoted as what it is.

Clubhouse and community pool decks can be quoted too.