Power Washing Across St. Clair County

New Territory, the Same Price Sheet

St. Clair County is new for us. We began serving it in October 2026 and have no local job history to show yet, so this page covers the drive, the prices and the local conditions. The 16 communities run from Port Huron and the Blue Water Area down the St. Clair River to Algonac and Clay Township, then west along Anchor Bay to Ira Township and inland to Casco and Columbus townships.

From 21366 Hall Rd it is about 35 minutes to Marine City, the City of St. Clair or St. Clair Township. Algonac and Marysville are about 40 minutes out, Kimball Township about 45 and Fort Gratiot Township about 50. The crew that makes the trip carries the same $2M general liability policy and workers' compensation coverage it carries in Clinton Township.

The unincorporated places sit inside those communities. Fair Haven and Anchorville are in Ira Township, Smiths Creek straddles Kimball and St. Clair townships, and Harsens Island belongs to Clay Township. The island has no bridge, only the car ferry across the North Channel, and island jobs carry no extra charge for the ferry. Call (586) 284-3810 about an island address, or about any address outside these 16 communities, before you book.

Soft Washing or Pressure Washing: What Each Shore and Field Needs

The St. Clair River towns, from Marysville down through St. Clair, East China and Marine City, sit beside a shipping channel whose level commonly swings two to three feet, lowest in February and rising through July. A seawall face or dock post is wet to a different line each month, and algae grows in that band. Much of the housing is old: about half of St. Clair's homes predate 1960, and 44% of Marine City's were built in 1939 or earlier. On their shaded walls, painted trim and porches, soft washing at low pressure with a cleaning solution removes the growth without driving water behind old siding. Michigan's EGLE requires a permit for wash water sent to a river, so on a riverfront lot ask how the rinse will be kept out of the water. Our guide to why lake homes grow mildew faster covers the damp.

The canal and island communities have water on two or three sides. Water covers about 47 of Clay Township's 82 square miles, and its canal subdivisions along the North Channel and Anchor Bay were platted between 1917 and 1935. When Lake St. Clair reached record levels in June 2019, Algonac declared a flood emergency and told its more than 550 waterfront property owners to barrier their property. Once high water drops, check foundations, seawall caps and flatwork for a silt line; a low-pressure wash removes it, and the rinse should be kept out of the canal. In Ira Township the zoning code treats every lot touching Lake St. Clair as a waterfront lot, and on those lots algae and mildew are expected on lake-facing siding, decks and docks. See canal home exterior care.

Port Huron and the Lake Huron shore add road salt to the damp. I-⁠94 and I-⁠69 both end at the Blue Water Bridge plaza inside the city, and the business loop runs along Pine Grove Ave and Huron Ave through residential blocks, where salt spray is expected on curbside concrete and lower siding, as it is along Fort Gratiot's 24th Ave strip. About a third of Port Huron's homes were built in 1939 or earlier. A wash leaves sound paint on those walls. Loose or flaking paint gets pointed out, not blasted off: under EPA's RRP rule, taking more than 20 square feet of paint off the outside of a pre-1978 house is lead-safe work. The road-film side is in black film on siding near a busy road.

The inland townships trade shoreline for acreage. Farmland and rural homes cover about 78% of Casco Township, and Casco has no sanitary sewer, so every house sits on a septic system and wash water belongs off the drain field and out of roadside ditches and county drains. Columbus Township has only eight recorded plats; most homes sit on parcel splits along county roads. In China Township, homes along the Belle River and Pine River valleys sit near wetlands and mapped floodplain, and those damp, shaded lots grow algae and mildew on siding and roofs.