From a Borrowed Pressure Washer to a Three-County Exterior Cleaning Team
This company wasn't built in a boardroom. It was built in a driveway, right here in Michigan — fueled by ambition and a flat refusal to settle.
Two Students, One Ford Escape, Zero Excuses
In June 2022, Landen Glefke was fresh out of high school and Justin Dillard was still a junior. They didn't have investors, a fleet of trucks, or a marketing budget. What they had was a vision — and Landen's mom's small residential power washer. (Thanks, Mom.)
Loaded into a Ford Escape, that little machine washed its way through neighborhood after neighborhood. Justin and Landen personally completed more than 350 jobs in those first years, working nights and weekends, building a reputation one house at a time.
Those early days were a crash course in resilience: equipment breakdowns, Michigan's famously uncooperative weather, and every lesson the trade could throw at two teenagers determined to keep going. What stuck wasn't just technique. It was a conviction that customer service isn't about cleaning a surface — it's about showing up on time, treating people with respect, and standing behind the work no matter what.
The Decision That Changed Everything
Somewhere around job three hundred, a realization landed: running a side business with pressure washers wasn't the goal. Being industry leaders was.
So they went to school on the trade itself. Countless hours networking with established operators and cleaning veterans across the country. Advanced training in cleaning systems, safety protocols, and efficiency standards built for commercial work. They studied the chemistry behind soft washing, the low-pressure method that safely cleans roofs and siding where raw pressure would destroy them. They also made major investments in industrial-grade, truck-mounted hot-water systems built for some of the largest commercial projects in Southeast Michigan.
That education turned MPWS from a two-man startup into a professional operation with processes, standards, and equipment on par with companies many times its age.
Where We Are Now
Today, MPWS is a long way from the Ford Escape. Our crews maintain commercial properties for national brands, including The Home Depot, Enterprise, AT&T and Staybridge Suites, alongside schools, municipal buildings, and hundreds of homes across Macomb and Oakland Counties and the Grosse Pointes.
What hasn't changed is the standard. Whether we're restoring a family's stamped-concrete patio or degreasing the pad behind a busy restaurant, every technician brings the same perfectionism that got two kids through 350 driveways. We run as a local company with commercial-grade training and equipment, and we intend to keep it that way.
We Pay Our People Like the Job Matters
This trade has a turnover problem. We keep technicians year-round rather than staffing up in April and letting people go in November, so the crew that washed your house last year is the one that comes back.
Our technicians earn well above what this industry typically pays, with real benefits behind it — because someone who can build a life on this work sticks around long enough to get good at it. That's also why we carry full workers' compensation on every technician rather than treating crews as contractors: if someone gets hurt on your property, that is our responsibility to carry, not yours.
You feel the difference as a customer in a quiet, practical way. The person who washed your house last spring is the same person who shows up this spring, already knows which downspout backs up, and doesn't need to be told twice about the flower bed.
Where Our Money Goes When the Trucks Are Parked
We grew up here. Landen and Justin went to school in this county, and the first three hundred driveways we ever washed belonged to people who live within a few miles of where we still park the trailer.
So a share of what this company earns goes back into local schools and charities across Macomb County — athletic programs, classroom fundraisers, and community organizations doing work that matters here. We don't publicize the individual amounts, and we're not interested in a plaque. We do it because this community has spent four years recommending us to their neighbors.
We're Usually Looking for Good People
If you've read this far and the way we run this company sounds like somewhere you'd want to work, we'd like to hear from you. No experience required — we train the trade. Show up, care about the work, and we'll handle the rest.
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1,200+ Projects, and the Names Behind Them
Since 2022, Macomb Power Washing Solutions has completed more than 1,200 projects across Southeast Michigan — driveways and full homes, storefronts and school campuses, single-visit washes and standing commercial contracts that renew year after year. That number grows weekly, and every job in it was photographed, documented, and backed by the same make-it-right guarantee we started with.
The commercial roster tells its own story. We maintain properties for The Home Depot, Enterprise, AT&T, and Mobil. We keep Staybridge Suites hospitality-clean, serve the Matick Chevrolet and Matick Toyota dealerships, handle portfolio work for Friedman Real Estate, and serve the retail side through clients like Cloud Cannabis. Two school districts, L'Anse Creuse Public Schools and New Haven Community Schools, trust us on their campuses, and our work at Selfridge Air National Guard Base put the crew on one of the region's most storied installations. When national brands, school boards, and a military base all sign off on the same local company, the reasons are practical: a consistent process, insurance paperwork that arrives before it's asked for, and crews that show up when the schedule says.
The full commercial story lives on our commercial power washing page, and the residential side of those 1,200 projects speaks for itself across 177+ Google reviews.
The family of companies
Meet the Sister Company: Macomb Lawn & Snow Solutions
When the washing season winds down, our sister company's season begins. Macomb Lawn and Snow Solutions runs snow removal across Macomb County from November 15 through April 15 — residential driveways cleared at over 2 inches, commercial lots at 1 inch, with salting and sidewalk service on the same dispatch discipline you'd expect from this family. In the green months, their hardscaping crews build the paver patios, walkways, retaining walls, and fire features that our washing crews keep clean for decades after.
Same standards, same clear answers: published pricing, $2M general liability plus workers' comp, and real reviews — if you've hired us, you already know the philosophy.
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Commercial clients we're proud to serve
Work With a Team That Earned It
We got here one careful job at a time, and your property gets the same care. Get your free estimate and see what 350 jobs' worth of lessons looks like in practice.
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