Pressure Washing & Soft Wash in Bunnell, FL

A different town than the rest of the county

Bunnell was incorporated in 1913 and became the Flagler County seat in 1917, when the county itself was carved out of Volusia and St. Johns Counties. As of the 2020 census, Bunnell had 3,276 residents, a fraction of Palm Coast's population next door. The town grew up around agriculture and the Florida East Coast Railway, and the Old Brick Road, laid in 1915 as the first stretch of the Dixie Highway system, still runs south out of town toward Flagler Beach. That history shows up in the buildings. Homes and commercial storefronts here tend to be older than the newer stucco construction going up across Palm Coast's platted sections, and older exteriors need a different touch.

We work the Government Services Building area along East Moody Boulevard (State Road 100 runs through downtown under that name), the Old Kings Road corridor near I-95, and the residential streets sitting between US-1 and the Old Brick Road toward Flagler Beach. Several properties out here still sit on well water rather than municipal supply, and irrigation from a well throws heavier iron and mineral content than a typical Palm Coast city line, which shows up as darker rust streaking below sprinkler heads and gutter downspouts than we typically see closer to the coast.

Why older paint changes the process

A lot of Bunnell's single-family stock predates the double-coat stucco systems common in Palm Coast's newer sections. Older single-coat stucco chalks and oxidizes faster, and it's thinner, so a standard soft-wash dwell time can pull more paint than intended if we don't slow down first. We test a small section before committing to a full-house dwell time on any home built before roughly 2000, and we lean toward a gentler chemical mix and a shorter contact window on visibly chalky walls.

Roofs skew toward asphalt shingle out here rather than the concrete and clay tile more common closer to the coast. Shingle roofs lose granules with age, and an aggressive rinse on a roof that's already shedding granules just strips more of them, shortening the roof's remaining life instead of just cleaning it. We rinse at low pressure, from the ridge down, and we don't walk the roof to spot-treat it.

How the job runs

1. Walkaround. We check paint age, roof material and condition, and whether the property is on well or city water before we touch anything.
2. Small test patch. On any home showing chalky or oxidized paint, we test a hidden section first.
3. Pre-rinse. Landscaping and anything delicate near the foundation gets a fresh water soak before chemical goes on.
4. Low-pressure application. Cleaning solution matched to the surface and to what we found on the test patch.
5. Dwell time. Shorter on chalky or older paint, standard on newer surfaces.
6. Controlled rinse. Top-down, low pressure, no foot traffic on the roof field.
7. Final walkaround. We check well-water rust spots separately, since those sometimes need a second, targeted pass.

What makes Bunnell jobs harder than a standard Palm Coast house

Well-water iron staining is the biggest one. It looks similar to algae from a distance, dark and streaky, but it's mineral, not biological, and the standard soft-wash solution barely touches it. We carry a separate rust treatment for well-water properties and apply it as a targeted second pass under downspouts and sprinkler lines rather than blanketing the whole wall with it. Older single-coat stucco with hairline cracking is the second issue, since a crack that's invisible from the ground can let water behind the wall if we push dwell time too long. Manufactured and mobile homes, more common in Bunnell than in Palm Coast's newer sections, get treated at a lower PSI on the skirting than we'd use on site-built stucco, standard practice on every call out here, not an upcharge.

Price and job duration

Bunnell's average home runs smaller and older than newer Palm Coast construction, so most jobs land toward the lower end of our standard house soft wash range, $225 to $450 for a single-story home in normal condition. A well-water rust treatment add-on runs $50 to $125 depending on how much staining has built up. Roof soft washing for a standard asphalt shingle roof runs $350 to $650. Most single-family jobs take 2 to 3 hours; add 30 to 45 minutes if a rust treatment pass is needed.