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Most likely, you’re already aware that DAPrDAN costs more than other companies that appear to do the same thing. However, when it comes to soft washing, gutter cleaning, window cleaning, or any other exterior cleaning service, you get what you pay for. In fact, regardless of the market segment, whenever you exchange your money for value in the service industry, authentic value is always beneath the surface. Let’s elaborate… [Author’s note: In writing about the attributes that make up the DAPrDAN price, we made the following assumptions in order to explore the value beyond what is obvious: 1) Not everyone will have the capacity to afford DAPrDAN’s services, 2) Well understood, surface-level attributes of value are expected; these include things like timeliness, good communication, and proficient performance of the services sold. 3) The most satisfied DAPrDAN clientele tends to think long-term. With this in mind, we have produced the following deep dive into “What’s in the DAPrDAN price?”] You Pay for DAPrDAN’s Expertise DAPrDAN is Led by Small Business Experts with a History of Maintaining Residential and Commercial Properties Beginning with just a bucket, squeegee, and a ladder strapped to the top of his car, the owner of DAPrDAN launched in November of 1998, fully licensed and insured from day one. The path to success has (of course) been laden with unpredictable challenges, both personal and professional, and yet our solutions-driven mindset during these times produced the crystalline gems of experience that form our expertise. Add to this a history of tenacious perseverance, strong vision and commitment to the customer’s experience, and you eventually arrive at where we stand today – thoroughly battle tested, perceptive, rich with experience, and sensible. These are the unique attributes that enable us to bring a high-level of value and distinction to your project. In recent years, DAPrDAN has attracted similar leaders who, contributing their own professional expertise, elevate our company’s value proposition even further. “If we had less integrity, it would cost less.” — Anonymous DAPrDAN Hires and Develops Expert Technicians On the surface, house washing looks simple: Just point and spray. However, that’s an illusion. By the time our technicians treat any surface, a sophisticated degree of knowledge and experience has gone into determining the proper method to achieve the best possible results for your roof, or siding. Our technicians have thoughtfully considered the root cause, determined a strategy on how to address it, and how to prevent future recurring problems. Additionally, they’ve considered the level of service you’ve selected (e.g., Basic, Plus, Premium, Luxury), and whether, or not this is in your best long-term interest. Ensuring our technicians provide more than just manual labor requires us to hire the right people and train them well. We’ll go into more depth on how we support our employees further down the page, but at this point we want you to know that we invest considerable resources into our technicians’ continuing job training and development, which delivers a direct benefit to you, the homeowner. DAPrDAN Deploys Equipment & Products Developed by Experts In addition to paying for the right technicians, you must pay for the right equipment and products to effectively and safely clean your home. For example, we deploy the SoftWash Systems Blend 6X machine, the most sophisticated technology available in soft washing. Because of its unique blending capability, it removes harmful infestations of moss, lichen, algae, mildew and mold from your roof and siding while minimizing waste. In a class all it’s own, this technology is the most effective way to wash your home without introducing unnecessary products into the environment, or generating collateral damage. It only works with proprietary, high-performing chemicals that break down into carbon and water. So, when you hire DAPrDAN, you pay for the cost of having your house washed with biodegradable, non-toxic chemicals that have been thoroughly researched and tested to accomplish the desired results. To read more about the use of biodegradable chemicals in our process, read our blog, “Is pressure washing with chemicals bad?”. It’s worthwhile to mention that our investment in quality equipment also includes our trucks. Not only do we ensure our technicians get to your home reliably on time, but we also make certain the vehicle is in good working condition, for their safety and yours. We never want our trucks to leak onto your driveway, or street, creating a stain. We share this seemingly minor detail to demonstrate one of many ways we’ve accounted for your entire DAPrDAN experience, preparing it to be nothing less than stellar. DAPrDAN’s Employees are Professionals When you hire DAPrDAN, you pay for professionalism. We would define this as the devotion to delivering a complete solution to the problem we are hired to solve while respecting the boundaries that define the client-provider relationship. Each member of the DAPrDAN team wears a very specific uniform, which comes with a set of standards for the work we perform, how we treat you, and our respectful behavior on your property. Meeting these standards requires that we have the systems in place to properly train our technicians and then hold them accountable. This professionalism is not isolated to the customer-facing experience. It extends to the back office as well. It may come across as obvious, or silly to point out, but we pay our taxes. It may shock you, but the truth is, not all exterior cleaning service companies do. We are often disappointed when we are solicited to receive “cash payments” from first-time customers, who don’t understand DAPrDAN’s commitment to doing things the right, and law-abiding way. Our expertise in cleaning your home is coupled with expertise for responsibly running our business. We really can’t say, “Hire DAPrDAN because we pay our taxes.” We agree that should be a given. However, what is not a given is our expertise in the other industries that impact our service to you. For example, did you know home insurance underwriters in Washington state will not renew a home insurance policy if there’s
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Customers often wonder if we pressure wash with chemicals. Before we address that, let’s clarify the use of the term “pressure washing.” This term is often used mistakenly when customers mean “soft washing” or “house washing.” We use different cleaning systems for specific parts of your property to ensure the job is done right and without any damage to your home. You don’t want us to pressure wash your roof or siding like we would your driveway (see our blog on The Power of Soft Washing to learn more). With that technical clarification aside, let’s move on to the topic this blog will clarify. When our customers ask, “Do you use chemicals,” what they’re really asking is, “Are your practices eco-friendly?” After all, just about everything is a chemical. It’s not about whether or not we use chemicals. It’s about which chemicals we use and if they are harmful to our customers, their property, or the environment. What is a chemical, and does that apply to house washing? The word “chemical” conjures the image from the original ‘Batman’ movie with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson when the Joker fell into a vat of chemicals. It was slimy and obviously toxic. But not all chemicals are. If you jump into a pool of pure water, you’re jumping into a chemical. Technically, a chemical is any substance consisting of matter. Hydrogen and oxygen make up water (H2O); most toothpaste contains zinc oxide (ZnO). Both are chemicals, safe, and eco-friendly. Furthermore, chemicals are often necessary to improve the safety and cleanliness of a given environment. For example, chlorine dioxide (CIO2) is used to disinfect drinking water (article here). And, as we noted in our blog on soft washing with bleach, the context and use of a chemical dictate whether or not it’s safe. While bleach is an effective chemical for stopping the spread of Covid-19, it should not be ingested or injected (article here). Hopefully, you didn’t need this information, but you may be eligible for a Darwin award if you did. Our snarkiness aside, it’s not about whether or not your exterior cleaning services contractor uses chemicals. It’s about which chemicals they use and how. Does your contractor use eco-friendly soft washing chemicals? DAPrDAN’s mission is to serve you. If chemicals were inherently harmful to you, your property, or the environment, we would not use them. Also, we’d be out of business since we wouldn’t be able to clean your home without them. Therefore, when our customers ask if we use chemicals, we inform them that every solution we treat their property with is both a chemical and biodegradable, which means it will decompose by natural biological processes. So, when you’re shopping for eco-friendly pressure washing, ask the contractor if the chemicals they use are biodegradable (and confirm they won’t actually pressure wash your roof or siding, as we stated in the introduction). If they don’t use biodegradable chemicals or aren’t sure, run in the opposite direction. Contractors new to the business are known to inadvertently create homemade mustard gas by mixing chlorine bleach with phosphate-based dishwasher detergent. Your exterior cleaning services contractor should know which chemicals they use because they mindfully chose them with you, your home, and the environment in mind. And, if they did mindfully choose non-biodegradable chemicals, well…we don’t know what to say to that. It’s just not good for anyone. Prior to eco-friendly chemicals for soft washing, houses were washed with high pressure and water. While this seems environmentally friendly, its consequences were not. Because the high pressure tore off the home’s paint, primer and new paint were used to replace it. Both these chemicals are not eco-friendly. Everything DAPrDAN does, including the chemicals we use and the methods we apply them, is on purpose with your well-being in mind. This is why we are certified by Softwash Systems, which is vital for many reasons, including the fact that we use their biodegradable cleaning solutions. Softwash Systems went to great lengths early in their tenure to create a biodegradable cleaning solution. (i.e., eco-friendly). They’ve always been committed to eco-friendly practices. In their own words, they are not “a new GREEN company.” Hopefully, when you read what they write on their Chemicals page, you will disconnect the association between the word “chemical” and the Joker’s vat in ‘Batman’ and replace that association with a clean home in a lush, vibrant neighborhood. Or even better, maybe you can think of DAPrDAN instead (*wink wink*). Can you clean your property without chemicals? Whether soft washing your roof or pressure washing your driveway, chemicals are necessary to treat your property with the appropriate care to get the job done right. This is the case because everything is a chemical, as we’ve already established, and because effective cleaning solutions applied by qualified technicians will remove dirt, debris, and organic growth while preventing it from growing back. Fortunately, you now know that this is not a bad thing. Now that we’ve alleviated your anxiety about chemicals, we must state the obligatory and obvious, though true: if your property needs any exterior cleaning services, DAPrDAN is your trusted partner with your best interests in mind serving Seattle and surrounding cities, including Burien, Medina, and Deer Harbor. Get an instant quote today.
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