In Summerville, the humid Lowcountry climate and heavy seasonal rainfall keep organic growth coming back all year, and on a multi-building community it shows up everywhere at once. Warm, damp air and shade let algae and mildew creep across building exteriors, settle into breezeways, and darken the cement walkways between units. The ponds and low-lying ground common around local properties only speed it along, and a community can look tired and neglected fast.
We take on the entire property, not just the parts that are easy to reach. That means soft washing building exteriors and breezeways, then surface-cleaning the walkways, stairs, and dumpster pads that residents use every day. All of it is coordinated around the people living there, so buildings come clean in sequence and the community keeps running while we work rather than turning into a job site. Holy City Hydroshine handles the full scope on a schedule that keeps a property looking cared for.
If you manage an apartment community in Summerville and want the whole exterior handled by one crew, give us a call at (843) 729-3095 and we’ll come take a look.
We clean multi-building residential communities of every shape, priced per unit and sequenced so a property is never caught half-finished. Here are the community types we handle.
We soft wash building exteriors and breezeways, then surface-clean the cement walkways, stairs, and dumpster pads across the property. Add-on scopes are available when you want them, including sidewalks, breezeways, stairs, the same dumpster pad cleaning we run on commercial sites, and gutters. The shaded breezeways and north-facing walls across a complex are where algae and mildew hold on hardest, and that is where our soft wash approach does its best work.
For rental and professionally-managed townhome communities, we bring the same soft wash approach across each building’s exterior and surface-clean the common walkways and stairs as your scope calls for — building exteriors and breezeways at the per-unit rate below. (Owner-occupied HOA townhome communities that want individual home exteriors plus shared amenities are covered on our HOA exterior cleaning page.)
Two-unit buildings are soft washed exterior by exterior, with walkways and shared flatwork cleaned as scoped. The per-unit pricing holds whether it is a small duplex row or a larger multi-building community, and any add-on scopes are quoted right alongside it.
There are a handful of reasons property managers keep bringing us back to their communities. Here’s what makes the difference on a multi-building job.
We work one building at a time so we never leave a building half-done at a hard stop. That planning is what keeps a job from stalling with one structure clean and the next mid-wash, so residents always see finished buildings instead of a property-wide work zone.
Our stainless-steel hot water unit cuts through grease and oil in high-traffic areas that cold-water setups can’t touch, the same edge it gives our storefront cleaning work, and that matters most on breezeways and the flatwork where foot traffic grinds grime in. Most companies around here don’t run hot water at all, so it’s a real difference on the parts of a community that see the heaviest use.
Multi-family buildings have fire-suppression and alarm equipment in the breezeways, and a crew that doesn’t know the protocol can trip an alarm or damage a head on cleaning day. Before any water runs, we coordinate with you to put the fire system into test mode and we tape and cover that equipment, so the work happens without a false alarm or a costly mistake.
Every building is documented with before-and-after photos sent straight to you, so you can see exactly what we did whether or not anyone from management is on site. On a community with a dozen buildings or more, that’s the simplest way to confirm the work and share proof with an owner or board without walking every structure yourself.
From your first call to the final invoice, here’s how a community cleaning comes together.
When you reach out, we look up the unit count and scope the property on site, with or without you there, measuring and confirming which scopes are included: buildings, breezeways, sidewalks, stairs, dumpster pads, and gutters. From there we send back a free written estimate, and on commercial work that’s often the same day.
The estimate goes out by email and text, with the scopes laid out so there’s nothing to guess at. Once you approve it, we get the community on the calendar, typically a three to four day window that lands within a week of the start, and we confirm the sequence of buildings with you before the crew arrives.
Before any water runs, we have the fire system placed in test mode and then tape and cover the fire-suppression and alarm equipment in the breezeways. It is a short step that keeps cleaning day from tripping an alarm.
We soft wash each building’s exterior and breezeways with a sodium hypochlorite solution, moving one building at a time so nothing is ever left half-done. Our soft wash system handles the exteriors gently, and the hot water unit comes out for the breezeways and any high-traffic grease that a cold-water rinse would leave behind.
We surface-clean the cement walkways, stairs, and dumpster pads, bringing the hot water unit back in wherever grease warrants it, and the building exteriors themselves get the same care as our standalone commercial building washing. Dumpster areas and high-traffic stairwells tend to hold the worst of the buildup, and hot water lifts it in a way a cold rinse can’t. If your scope includes add-ons like sidewalks or gutters, we handle those here while we’re already on the property.
Once a building is finished, we send the before-and-after set and, wherever you are available, walk the property with you. We stand behind the work and make anything right before the job is considered done, and only then does the invoice follow.
Community exterior cleaning is priced per unit, with any add-on scopes quoted on top, so a property manager gets a number that scales with the property rather than a flat guess. We price for quality work and full-property protection, not for cutting corners.
Most communities are done in a three to four day window, typically within a week of the scheduled start. The exact timeline depends on the number of buildings and which scopes you’ve included. Because the crew moves through the property one building at a time, the community keeps functioning normally while the work is underway.
We coordinate the water plan up front, using on-site water where it’s available or a permitted hydrant hookup for larger jobs like parking lot and garage cleaning. Hydrant hookups are scheduled through the local water department with the required permit before the job begins. Our truck also carries a buffer tank as backup, so the crew is ready for whatever the property offers on job day.
Yes, breezeways are part of what we soft wash right along with the building exteriors. We bring the hot water unit for the grease and grime that collect in those high-traffic areas. In the rare case where a breezeway’s runoff would reach the interior units below, we protect those units by keeping that scope for a setup that can fully contain the water, and we tell you that at the walkthrough so the plan is right from the start.
Very little. You coordinate with us ahead of time, and because the work moves through the community one building at a time, only a small portion is affected on any given day. Where residents need to move vehicles or clear a walkway for a specific building, we arrange that with you in advance so it reaches them before we arrive. No one from management needs to be on site while we work, and you receive the documentation for each building either way.
Whether it’s an apartment community, a townhome community, or a row of duplexes in Summerville, we’ll walk it with you and put together a per-unit estimate for the exterior, often the same day. Call us at (843) 729-3095 and we’ll get your community on the schedule.
