The Importance Of Curb Appeal

Kyle Farias • Feb 18, 2022

The Importance Of Curb Appeal

Lets start off with what is curb appeal?

Curb appeal is the attractiveness of the exterior of your home, and the view around your home from the street. Maintaining a great curb appeal increases the value, and stabilizes your homes value.

Now with the importance of great curb appeal

It increase's your homes value when you get ready to list and sell your property. On the other side if you love your home and plan to stay there for long time it stabilizes the price of your property and keeps the house in great shape. Keeping the house in great shape and maintaining it is huge, the more up keep on your property the longer it will last and you do not have to worry about costly repairs.

Here are a few Great ways to maintain great curb appeal

Lawn Maintenance
Fresh Paint
New Lightbulbs
Furniture
Yearly Pressure Washing
Clean Driveway, And Sidewalks
Unique Yard

Read on to see how these are beneficial, and how to do each process.

Lawn Maintenance

Having a clean yard is huge, the way your yard looks can reflect a lot on how people would think the interior of your house looks and taken care of. Of course the inside of your house can look far better then your yard but people only see the outside of your house. That is one reason a clean yard is important. Another reason why maintaining your yard is important is because, it keeps rodents, bugs , and other creatures away. They wont have place to live and keeping them away will keep them from coming inside!

Fresh Paint

Now I do not mean go out and repaint your whole house, just some touch ups like your garage, trim, or even your front door. Any of those being touched up can make a world of difference to how your property looks. When someone walks up to your house and see a fresh painted garage door or front door that's going to some of things there eyes look at first.

Simple touches can go a far way, or if your paint on your house is starting to fade go ahead and repaint it makes a world of difference.

Quick Tip: Getting your house washed at least once a year will elongate the life of your paint for a very long time.

New Lightbulbs

May seem super simple but new fresh lightbulbs really light up your property and with enough lights, at night your house will pop and everybody will see your house stand out like a star!

Also clean out the bugs in your light fixtures the longer you let it go the worst it will get.

Quick tip: Invest in some new like fixtures its a great accent piece for the outside of your house.

Furniture

Again I do not mean go and get all new furniture, but if you do there's always steals on Facebook marketplace.

With furniture I just mean keep it clean maintain it. Easy ways to do that is hose it down, Sweep the dust off.

Doing that will put your guest at ease knowing that the yard wont have any critters because you maintain your yard, but also that the do not have to worry about bugs under them or that no stains will get on there clothes.

A patio is great place for conversation with your favorite people, or just enjoying a cup of coffee in the morning.

Yearly Pressure Washing

Yearly pressure washing can not only keep your house in tip top shape and keep that amazing curb appeal it also extends the life of your property. Pressure washing isn't just high pressure concrete cleaning , you can get a house wash which will help you paint last longer by killing off any organic growth and help it from coming back.

You can also get a roof wash which has a ton of benefits here's some of the benefits

Of course curb appeal
It extended the life of your roof
Getting a simple roof wash will add $15,000 worth of value when you go to list your house because it makes the roof look brand new!

If your interested in any pressure washing check out our service page at https://www.lcpressurewashlandolakes.com/residential-pressure-washing

Before After

Clean Driveway

Driveway and sidewalks are another big thing people see when passing your house. A simple pressure washing can make a world of difference for your driveway and sidewalks. You can also spray a 50/50 bleach and water mix to brighten and kill any mold spores on your driveway.

There is also ways to get these stains off your driveway

Rust- Get oxalic acid and do 3 parts water and 1 part acid and spray on rust stains, and rinse it off when its all gone

Oil Stains- these stains are a lot more stubborn and you will never get it 100% clean but you can get a heavy duty degreaser and spray it on the stain agitate it with a course brush then clean it off with a hot water pressure washer.

Unique Land Scaping

Have a yard when people look and there jaw drops, not only will that add a ton of value to your property it will likely promote your neighbors to do there land scaping and will add even more value for al the houses in the neighborhood.

How Lightning Capital Pressure Washing Can Help You?

As mentioned above pressure washing can make a night and day difference in the curb appeal. The problem is pressure washing can be a very labor intensive and if you don't have the proper equipment or knowledge you can cause a lot of damage leading to a ton of money in repairs. So If your in the Tampa Bay or surrounding County's or City's call the Pros at Lightning Capital Pressure Washing to take care of all your property exterior cleaning need's from Roof wash, House wash, and driveway cleaning. We Are a 5 star Rated company and we are also fully licensed and insured. Check out our website you can contact us there or fill out a form for a FREE Quote!

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