Power Washing in Macomb Township, Michigan

The Township Across the Road

Our building sits at 21366 Hall Road in Clinton Township, and Hall Rd, which carries M-59, is Macomb Township's southern boundary. Cross it and you are in the township. Most addresses here are a drive of about eight minutes off-peak, so a township job slots into a route the way a Clinton Township job does: no travel fee, same-week scheduling most of the year, and a crew that often knows the floor plan from the same builder's model two streets over.

No township in Macomb County grew faster. It had 50,478 residents in 2000, 79,580 in 2010 and 91,663 by the 2020 census, and dozens of new-construction communities are still going in. The result is one of the youngest housing stocks we serve: vinyl-sided two-story colonials with brick fronts, full-brick ranches and split-levels in the newer large-lot subdivisions, and stamped or decorative concrete patios and walks that were poured with the house. The parks are as new as the houses. Macomb Corners Park, 94 acres on 25 Mile east of Luchtman, opened the same day in 2004 as the 92,000-square-foot Macomb Township Recreation Center, and Pitchford Park on Romeo Plank followed in 2023.

Three old crossroads were on the map before any of it. Macomb Corners at Romeo Plank and 25 Mile, Waldenburg on Romeo Plank around 22 Mile and Meade at 26 Mile and North Ave are the pre-subdivision names, and the older farm lots around them hold the township's few mature trees. Everywhere else the street trees were planted with the plats and are still small, so most walls get full sun and algae is slow to take hold, except on those farm lots and along the Middle Branch of the Clinton River.

What shows first on a young house is construction residue rather than growth: clay splashed up the skirt of the siding from a lot that was graded bare, mortar haze on the brick front, and a gray cast on the flatwork from two seasons of trade traffic. The soil under all of it is heavy, poorly drained clay, so the low corners of a lot stay damp for days after rain and the first green film starts there. One thing the township does not have is well water. Homes run on Lake Huron water through GLWA, so the irrigation systems on nearly every lawn leave no orange iron arcs on brick or driveways. Every service below has its own Macomb Township page because the work is specific: gentle chemistry on siding still under warranty, resealing on decorative concrete that is fifteen to twenty-five years old, and documentation that satisfies the associations most of these subdivisions carry.

Young Houses on Old Clay

The vinyl colonial is the township's signature house: two stories, a brick front, light siding in white, gray or tan, and a roof that is often under fifteen years old. Light vinyl shows its first film early, usually year two or three on the north side, and it shows every stripe a rented pressure washer leaves. Soft washing at garden-hose pressure is the only method we use on it, and that first wash is the cheap one because nothing has rooted yet. The brick fronts carry mortar haze from the build that a mild masonry cleaner lifts without touching the joints.

The full-brick ranches and split-levels on the larger lots have fewer siding problems and more concrete. Long driveways, wide walks and stamped patios went in with many of the 2000s builds, and those slabs are now old enough that the color is fading and the surface has gone gray under a failed sealer. Cleaning, a full dry and a fresh coat of sealer bring the pattern back and protect it from freeze-thaw. Concrete on clay also lifts a little at the joints each winter, so we point out raised edges when we see them.

Associations are the third factor. Most of the 2000s-2020s subdivisions carry exterior standards and inspect in spring, and a notice usually cites the siding or the driveway with a cure window of a few weeks. Our jobs close with dated before-and-after photos, and when one house on a cul-de-sac gets a letter its neighbors usually did too, so we price the street as a group when several book the same day.