Summerville’s humid Lowcountry summers and heavy rainfall keep organic growth working overtime, and algae and mildew take hold fast on community exteriors, shared walkways, and every surface residents pass on the way in. With so many neighborhoods here backing up to ponds and standing water, the soiling comes on even quicker. In a townhome or multi-family community it shows up building-wide rather than on a single home, so a patchy, one-off approach never keeps up.
We handle exterior cleaning for owner-occupied HOA and townhome communities as one coordinated project — soft washing individual home exteriors and cleaning the shared amenities (pool decks, clubhouses, fencing, signage) in the same effort, with the property manager as the single point of contact from start to finish. That is the standard we hold ourselves to at Holy City Hydroshine on every Summerville community we take on.
If you manage or sit on the board of a Summerville community, call us at (843) 729-3095 and we will walk you through what a full clean would look like for your property.
A community clean covers far more than the home exteriors: the shared spaces your community is judged on get cleaned too, all scoped with the property manager up front.
Home exteriors are soft washed to lift algae, mildew, and dirt without high pressure, the same gentle method behind our commercial building washing, applied community-wide, one building at a time. Door cameras and electronics on residents’ homes are covered and taped before we start.
Shared exterior spaces are cleaned as scoped with the property manager. Because these areas often sit shaded and see steady foot traffic, they are usually where a community first starts to look tired, and where a clean shows most.
The community’s walkways are surface-cleaned to bring back an even, uniform finish from one end of the property to the other. Clearing the organic buildup also means safer footing on the shared paths residents use every day.
Pool decks are cleaned as scoped, with coated decks soft-washed rather than run at high pressure. The result is a cleaner, safer shared amenity for the whole community.
The clubhouse exterior is cleaned alongside the rest of the community as part of the same visit, so the building residents gather in matches everything around it.
Community fencing is cleaned as a shared feature wherever the property has it, folded into the community scope and confirmed with the property manager.
Boards and property managers keep our crew on the property for a handful of practical reasons.
Instead of a separate window company, a separate pressure washer, and someone else for the common areas, your community gets home exteriors, sidewalks, common areas, pool decks, clubhouses, fencing, signage, and shared scopes like dumpster pad cleaning handled in one coordinated project, by one crew, on one invoice to the property manager. A board manages one relationship and one scope, not five.
We carry $1 million in general liability with a $2 million umbrella, plus $1 million in commercial auto and workers’ comp, coverage most companies around here can’t match, so your property is protected no matter what. We are also built for a community’s approved-vendor system: we provide COI, W-9, workers’ comp, and commercial auto documentation on request, often the same day.
We work one building at a time so a building is never left half-finished at a hard stop, and residents aren’t looking at a partially cleaned exterior overnight. We take our time and do it right the first time rather than rushing from one building to the next.
We have cleaned the same townhome community three years running, kept on year after year because of the quality of the work and how easy we make the process for the board and the manager. Communities stay when the results and the working relationship both hold up, and ours do.
The board or property manager reaches out, and we look up the community’s unit count and set up a walkthrough. We provide a free estimate covering the full scope, which buildings, which shared areas, and any add-ons, with the property manager as the single point of contact from that point on.
We walk the community with the property manager, or on our own if that is easier for them, and confirm which home exteriors and which areas are in scope: sidewalks, common areas, pool decks, clubhouses, fencing, and signage. We measure everything and check whether any individual residents have arranged to add their own driveways ahead of time.
We coordinate the water source before the job, hooking up to on-site water where it is available or arranging a permitted hydrant hookup for a community of that size. The permit is scheduled through the local water department, so nothing is left to sort out on the day of the clean.
Before any cleaning starts, we cover and tape door cameras and electronics on residents’ homes. Plants are wetted before, during, and after with our soft wash system, and a neutralizer is applied so runoff can’t harm the community’s landscaping.
We soft wash the community’s home exteriors with a low-concentration sodium hypochlorite solution that lifts algae, mildew, and dirt without high pressure. We move through the property one building at a time, finishing each before we start the next.
We surface-clean the community’s cement walkways, sidewalks, and shared flatwork, along with any community lots or structured parking that call for parking lot and garage cleaning, and we clean the pool decks, clubhouse exterior, fencing, and signage that are in scope. Coated surfaces, like coated pool decks, are soft-washed rather than run at high pressure.
Community exterior cleaning is priced per home, with the full-community total depending on the number of homes and which shared areas are in scope. Every community is quoted from an on-site walkthrough rather than a phone guess, so the number reflects your actual property.
HOA and townhome community exterior cleaning is priced per home, about $100 to $125 per unit — the rate reflects cleaning each home’s full exterior plus the community’s shared amenities. Full-community projects have run $5,000 to $12,000 depending on size. Pricing this way lets a board tie the cost directly to the number of units. Add-on scopes, extra common areas, pool decks, fencing, signage, and individual resident driveways, are quoted with the community scope.
If a community is weighing recurring or multi-area work, ask about it when you get your estimate and we will factor it into the number.
The property manager is the single point of contact from the first call through the final invoice. The board or property manager sets the scope, and we coordinate scheduling, the walkthrough, and the finished-job review through that one contact, so the community is never juggling multiple people or chasing down answers.
We coordinate the water source before the job, hooking up to on-site water where it is available or arranging a permitted hydrant hookup for larger communities. A hydrant hookup is scheduled with a permit through the local water department, so the community doesn’t have to arrange anything on its end.
Yes, individual residents can have their driveways added if they arrange it ahead of time. Coordinating it before the job lets the crew build it into the community scope rather than making a separate return trip, the same way we fold added scopes into exterior cleaning for apartment and multi-family communities, which keeps it simpler for everyone.
A townhome community typically takes up to three days, worked one building at a time from start to finish. The exact timeline depends on the number of homes and how many shared areas are in scope, and we confirm it with you at the walkthrough.
When your community is ready, we will come out for a free, no-obligation estimate and scope the work in person. We work with Summerville boards and property managers to keep their communities looking maintained through every Lowcountry season. Call us at (843) 729-3095 to get your community on the schedule.
