Pressure washing & soft washing · Conway, Arkansas · owner-operated since 2019
Siding, roofs, concrete, decks and fences — around Conway, Greenbrier, Heber Springs and Greers Ferry Lake.
Christian Olson quotes your property, then he’s the one on the wand. One house at a time, with the method matched to what the surface can actually survive: soft wash where pressure would do damage, real pressure where concrete can take it.
Send a photo of the worst patch. You’ll get a number and what’s inside it before anything is booked. No walk-around required, and nobody knocks on your door.
If it has a date on it
That’s most of what we get called for. Somebody else set the deadline, and the place has to be right before it arrives. That changes what the job is — finishing in time, not finding more to do.
So here’s what’s actually on that wall. Arkansas runs muggy from early May into October, April is the wettest month of the year, and a shaded wall stays damp for days after the rain stops. Which is why the sunny side looks fine and the north side goes green. That isn’t neglect. It’s shade and water doing what they always do, and whatever grows there holds moisture against the surface underneath, which is what rots deck boards and lifts a stain a season early.
What a surface can survive is the whole job. Here’s how we decide.
An inspector flagged the roof, or the non-renewal notice already landed. Streaked shingles read as a failing roof to somebody with a clipboard, even when the shingles underneath are sound.
There’s a date on it and a fine behind it. Siding, driveway, fence, mailbox post. Tell us the date and you’ll get a straight answer on whether we can hit it.
People see them and assume the roof is going. It’s a living organism sitting on the shingle, not structural damage. That one has its own section.
Or the realtor asked. Photos are Thursday. A washed drive and clean siding change what those photos look like on a phone screen.
Worth one phone call first. If the paint underneath is sound you may not need the painter at all. The numbers are just below.
A graduation, a reunion, a wedding at the lake. One of our customers books every year before the family reunion, and says so on Google.
Straight off Google
Nobody asked them to say it, and there’s no service plan to sign. It’s what happens when you live somewhere this humid and you’d rather wash the house than watch it go green.
“I call them every year before our family reunion. They do such great work.”
aiza chuaGoogle review, October 2025
“We call them every year to soft wash our home. They always do very good work and are cheaper than the rest of the companies in the area.”
Rolyn JalandoniGoogle review, January 2025
“Christian did a great job. Place looks so much better. Years of build up on stairs gone.”
Ron SullivanGoogle review, August 2025
“If you are looking for the best roof soft washing around the Greers Ferry Lake Area, call 501 Pressure Washing!”
Reza ChuaGoogle review, January 2025
“I am really pleased with the job they did power washing my home. The crew has attention to detail and are very polite. We will be calling back next year.”
Anna Lois PlazaGoogle review, January 2025
“Amazing to work with. House came out immaculate as advertised. Will definitely be calling you back for a yearly treatment.”
Ramon JorgeGoogle review, August 2022
None of this is permanent and we don’t pretend otherwise. This climate grows algae back. What washing does is get it off cleanly, at a pressure the surface survives, so next year is another wash instead of a repair.
Before you call a painter
This door is the whole argument. It sits on a metal shop, where iron dust hangs in the air and settles on everything, and on white steel it rusts straight into the paint. Thick enough that somebody wrote in it. Nobody replaced it and nobody painted it. It was treated with products made for rust and oxidation, washed at a pressure the panel could take, and rinsed.
Here are the real numbers. A house wash from us runs $330 to $700, depending on the size of the place, how high it goes, and how far gone it is. Painting contractors around central Arkansas quote $6,000 to $15,000 for a two-story exterior once prep, primer, and two coats are in it. Same walls, two completely different numbers. A lot of people price the repaint when what the house needed was a wash.
It only works one way round, though. If the paint is sound and just filthy, washing buys you years more out of it. If it’s peeling, chalking hard, or the wood has gone soft underneath, washing is the prep step before painting and not a substitute for it. You’ll be told which one you’ve got. We paint as well, so when the answer is “just wash it,” we’re talking ourselves out of the bigger job.
“We have a rental home in Quitman that was in such bad shape we thought about getting it painted. They got it cleaned so well we actually are going to hold of on painting for a couple more years. Turns out they do painting too!”
Orion QQQ · Google review, January 2025
The washing we do
Every one of them gets the method its surface can survive. That single decision is the difference between a wash that helps and a wash that costs you a repair.
Vinyl, painted siding, brick, and block at about 100 PSI, with a cleaning solution that kills algae and mildew at the root. Low pressure isn’t caution for its own sake. Water forced up under a lap course ends up inside the wall, and you don’t find out for a year.
Under 100 PSI on asphalt shingle, and a pressure wand never touches it at any setting. The black streaking is alive, so it has to be killed rather than knocked off. Knocking it off takes the mineral granules with it.
Drives, walks, patios, and entry flatwork at 3,000 to 4,000 PSI. Flatwork takes everything the machine has. Worked in even overlapping passes, so you’re not left reading wand lines across the slab afterwards.
Cleaned at 500 to 1,200 PSI, left to dry, then stained. Push harder than that and the grain lifts. A furred board takes stain blotchy, which is why a deck somebody rushed fails a season early.
A wood fence grays from the top rail down, and it’s the first thing anyone sees from the road. Washed back toward bare timber and re-stained, it reads as a new fence at a fraction of one.
Red clay bleed, well-line rust, chalked garage doors, tagging on a commercial wall. These need products made for them. More pressure just cuts into the surface under the stain.
Also on the truck, same visit: gutter cleaning (soft washed, up to 300 PSI, because those faces are thin coated aluminum), sidewalk cleaning, yard cleanup, and painting. Ask while we’re already there and it costs you one trip instead of three.
The one everybody worries about
This is the question that stops people booking, so here it is straight. GAF and Atlas both warn against high pressure on asphalt shingles, and Atlas puts the ceiling at garden-hose pressure. So on this trailer a shingle roof gets a soft wash under 100 PSI, and a pressure wand does not touch it. Not on a wide tip, not on a low setting, not at all.
What’s growing up there is Gloeocapsa magma, a cyanobacterium. Not toxic mold, whatever anybody told you. It’s alive, it spreads, and it holds moisture against the shingle. Killing it is the job. Blasting it off works too, briefly, and takes the mineral granules that protect the shingle along with it. That’s the trade nobody mentions on the phone.
And it will come back. Arkansas guarantees that much. Which is why roofs here get washed when streaking actually shows, rather than on a schedule somebody sold you.
Every other surface we touch is in the table below, with the pressure and the reason for it.
Every surface, on the record
Wrong method is how people end up with lines in the concrete, water inside the wall, and granules in the gutter. This is the call, made the same way every time, before anything gets sprayed.
| Surface | Method | Working pressure | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asphalt shingle roof | Soft wash only | Under 100 PSI | Pressure lifts the mineral granules that protect the shingle. The growth has to be killed, not knocked off. A wand never touches a shingle roof at any setting. |
| Vinyl and painted siding | Soft wash | About 100 PSI | Water driven up under a lap course ends up in the wall cavity. Nobody sees that one until it’s a repair bill. |
| Gutters | Soft wash | Up to 300 PSI | Thin coated aluminum. Enough to lift the black streaking off the face, not enough to dent the run or push water behind the fascia. |
| Cedar, pine, and painted wood | Soft wash | 500–1,200 PSI | Push harder and the grain lifts. A furred board takes stain blotchy, and that stain fails early. |
| Brick, block, and stone | Controlled pressure | 500–1,500 PSI | The masonry can usually take it. The mortar between it often can’t, so pressure stays low and dwell time does the work instead. Same reason paver joint sand stays where it belongs. |
| Concrete drives and walks | Full pressure | 3,000–4,000 PSI | Flatwork takes everything the machine has, in even overlapping passes. Rust, oil, and tire marks still get treated separately. |
Not sure which row your surface belongs in? That’s exactly the question to ask on the phone. Call (501) 365-6845 and tell us what it’s made of.
The 501 Method
Nothing unusual in here. It’s just done in order, and step three is the one that gets skipped.
Call or text and describe the surface. What it’s made of, roughly how big, and how long it’s looked that way, because a two-season stain and a ten-year stain are not the same job. A photo of the worst patch is worth more than a paragraph about it.
We work from your photos and measurements, or we walk the property. Either way the price and what’s inside it comes first. Add-ons are priced separately and named separately, so nothing lands on the invoice that wasn’t on the quote. If a surface needs two things in order, cleaning before stain, rust removal before sealing, you hear that up front instead of halfway through.
Plants get soaked and covered before a cleaning solution is even mixed. That’s a step in the job, not an afterthought. Furniture and grills move clear, and we check for open windows and loose trim. Keep pets inside while we’re working. We’ll say when the rinse-down is happening and when we’re finished, and that’s the point to let them back out.
Soft wash on roofs, siding, gutters, and painted wood. Real pressure on concrete and hardscape, where it belongs. Rust, oxidation, and graffiti get products made for them instead of more force. The table above is this step, set down in numbers.
Everything gets a final rinse and the plants get flushed a second time. Furniture goes back where it was. Then we walk the work with you while we’re still standing on it. If something isn’t right, we’d rather fix it now than hear about it next week.
You don’t need to be home for any of it. It’s all exterior work, and plenty of it happens while people are at the office. The person who quoted your property is the one holding the wand, so nothing gets lost between the quote and the work. Start at step one: (501) 365-6845.
Jobs on the ground
Roofs, flatwork, masonry, timber, and metal all come back differently. These are the surfaces people call about most, plus the one they call back about.
One decision behind every one of these: how much pressure that material can survive. The table says what it was.
Asked before nearly every job
A shingle roof here gets a soft wash under 100 PSI, and a pressure wand never touches it at any setting. Pressure is what does the damage.
It lifts the mineral granules that protect the shingle. GAF and Atlas both warn against high pressure on asphalt shingles, and Atlas puts the ceiling at garden-hose pressure. A soft wash kills the growth with a cleaning solution and rinses it off, so the streaking clears without the roof paying for it.
Plants get soaked and covered before a cleaning solution is even mixed, then flushed again on the final rinse. Keep pets inside while we’re working.
Nobody here is going to tell you the products are harmless. They’re cleaning products and they do a job. What you get instead is the plan: soak, cover, wash, rinse, flush again. We’ll say when the rinse-down is happening and when we’re finished, and that’s the point to let the dog back out.
Yes. This climate grows them back, and anybody telling you otherwise is selling something.
Arkansas runs muggy from early May into October and April is the wettest month of the year. Most people here land on a wash every year or two for the house and the concrete. Roofs are different. Those get done when streaking actually shows, not on a schedule.
Sometimes, and it’s worth asking before you call a painter. If the paint is sound and just filthy, washing buys you years more out of it.
A house wash from us runs $330 to $700. A two-story exterior repaint around central Arkansas runs $6,000 to $15,000, so the gap is worth a phone call. But if the paint is peeling, chalking hard, or the wood has gone soft, washing is the prep step and not a substitute. We paint as well, so when the answer is to wash it instead, we’re talking ourselves out of the bigger job.
We won’t quote your house without knowing what it’s made of. Material, square footage, access, and how long the staining has been sitting all move the number.
Send a photo of the worst section and you’ll get a figure and what’s inside it. Add-ons are priced and named separately, so the invoice matches the quote. Anybody giving you a firm number for a house they’ve asked nothing about is guessing at your expense.
Spring through fall. Cleaning solutions want moderate temperatures, and surfaces need to dry.
Spring suits a house that has sat through a winter of moisture and leaf litter. Fall makes sense if a deck is getting stained afterwards. Ask about a winter date and you’ll get an honest answer on whether that week’s weather will give you a result worth paying for.
No. All of the work is exterior.
We need access to the outside of the property and an outside water spigot. Plenty of jobs happen while people are at work. If there’s a gate code or a dog in the yard, say so on the phone.
Most single-story homes are a few hours. A larger two-story with the roof and the flatwork can run a full day.
How much growth is on the shaded side, whether a roof or a deck is in the same visit, and how much protection the landscaping needs all move it. You get a realistic window when we scope the work, and step three doesn’t get rushed to hit it.
Some stains won’t come all the way out, and there are jobs we’ll tell you not to bother with. You hear that before you pay, not after. Call (501) 365-6845.
Where the truck goes
A washing rig only earns its keep inside a day’s drive. This is the run, from the city out to the lake and up into the hills.
Conway, Greenbrier, Vilonia, and Damascus, then down through Cabot and Sherwood. Most single-day house and driveway work sits in here.
Fairfield Bay, Heber Springs, Greers Ferry, Higden, Quitman, Shirley, and Clinton. Heavy tree cover, so siding and roofs green up faster here than anywhere else on the run. Lake property is its own job too: docks, ramps, boathouses, more exposed timber, and access that isn’t flat. Dock algae is slick enough to put somebody in the water, which is the real reason to keep it off.
Searcy, Rosebud, Center Ridge, Choctaw, Dennard, Mountain View, Leslie, and Marshall. Worth grouping with a neighbor’s job where we can, so ask whether anyone on your road wants theirs done.
Plenty of the lake work gets done for owners who aren’t there, and who see it in photos once it’s finished. Not sure your road is in range? Say where you are on the phone and you’ll get a straight yes or no.
If you want the detail
Two things worth a look before you ring. One is the gallery of finished jobs — the same houses, drives and roofs you can see from the road round here. The other is the Journal, which is where the longer answers live: what the black streaks on a roof actually are, what pressure a surface will take, and why the shaded elevation always goes first.
Start here
The surface, roughly how big it is, and how long it’s looked that way. That’s enough to say what it needs and roughly what it’ll run. A photo of the worst patch gets you a better answer than a paragraph will.
Christian Olson owns the business and does the work. We’re insured. You’re not being handed to a call center.
