pollen on house siding · LaGrange, GA

pollen on house siding in LaGrange

In LaGrange, this comes up on historic-district houses, college-side streets, and the larger lots toward Vernon Road and Callaway. LaGrange clay does not rinse off a driveway with a garden hose, and shaded brick grows a green film by late summer. Pine and oak season coats everything. Booking the wash for the week after the heaviest drop beats booking the middle of it.

January here is gutters full of oak, a porch that needs to look right for guests, and the odd jobs that got postponed all year.

Pollen is dust. A rinse takes it off horizontal surfaces and off siding, until the next afternoon. Charging soft-wash prices to remove only pollen is something we will not do. If you call in April and the house is yellow, we will ask whether there is growth under it. Photos tell the truth.

Pollen on a wet chemical mix makes a paste. We would rather schedule around the worst week than fight it. That is a practical limit, not a delay for its own sake.

The film that remains after pollen season — green in the shade, black on the roof — is the actual job. Pollen did not cause it. Pollen just made the month look worse.

The full explanation, without the town attached, is the pollen is not a reason for a full soft wash article. The town does not change the chemistry. It changes the houses, the shade, and the clay.

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