Great company and service! This group of local young men are very knowledgeable, courteous, efficient and hard working. They did a fabulous job on our home, windows and driveway! Highly Recommend!
Amie Toohey
Google · a month ago
Driveway Cleaning in
Lexington, SC
Lexington driveway cleaning that dries one even color edge to edge. Our pre-treat, even-pass, post-treat method, never a striping wand on a young slab.
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What you get with Bub's
- Younger slabs get a gentle pass, not a hard blast, because a curing driveway can etch under too much pressure, so the chemistry does the work
- Even tone from the garage apron to the street, including the shaded edge where the lake-humidity green takes hold first
- Honest read on red-clay tint and oil drips up front, since those are iron and petroleum, separate treatments, and we never put acid on a young slab
- Beds and grass along the drive soaked and rinsed so none of the solution settles where it shouldn't
Our Work
Real Results, Real Homes
The right tool for the job
A swinging wand vs.
an even surface clean
Bare Wand
How a young slab gets wrecked
- High pressure aimed in tracks. Zebra stripes down the whole approach
- Enough force to etch a driveway that's still curing
- Smears an oil drip around without ever treating it
- Tears at a coated or sealed apron and any color in it
Bub's method
Soft Pass + Two-Step
What a newer driveway needs
- An even, overlapping pass pulls the whole slab to one tone, no stripes
- Low pressure on a young driveway, so we don't risk etching a slab that's still curing
- A pre-treat and post-treat kill the green in the pores, not just off the top
- Gentle on coated, stamped, or sealed aprons. The finish stays put
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The questions Lexington homeowners
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It can. A slab in its first few years is still hardening at the surface, and too much pressure, or an acid, can etch it and leave it rougher than the green did. That's exactly why we go gentle on a young driveway: low pressure, with the cleaning solution doing the lifting so the surface stays smooth.
No. On a young slab we keep the pressure low and let a pre-treat and post-treat do the work, so the whole drive comes up one even tone. The stripes you've seen elsewhere are a bare wand chewing uneven tracks. We don't swing one across a curing slab or a coated apron.
Oil's a specialty stain. A degreaser can lighten a surface drip, but only so much, and a deep, set-in one may barely move; we won't promise it gone. Red clay is iron, a separate treatment from the green, and on a young slab we skip the acid that would etch it. We tell you up front what'll come up and what won't.
Yes. We soak the grass and any beds running along the driveway before we start and rinse everything down after. The cleaning solution only causes trouble if it's left to dry on plants, and we don't let that happen.
Once it's rinsed and dried, yes. We rinse the slab and the ground around it thoroughly so nothing's left sitting on the surface, just give it time to dry like you would after a good rain.
Yes on both. Bub's is veteran-owned, carries a license, and is fully insured, so the coverage is in place the moment we roll into your driveway. The owner and the crew handle the wash themselves.
The crew that covers Lexington
Meet
Bub's team
Veteran-owned and local. The same people who answer the phone are the ones who show up at your Lexington home.
Conner Laugh
Founder · Veteran
Veteran, business owner, and the one behind every job. Conner built Bub's on the idea that South Carolina homeowners deserve better.
Riley Funk
Certified Technician
Trained and certified through our in-house program, Riley brings precision to every job. When Riley’s on-site, your property is in good hands.
Jayden Clark
Head of Marketing
The creative force behind the brand. Jayden drives the strategy that keeps Bub's growing and in front of the right customers.
Getting your quote, step by step
How getting your free quote works
Start to finish it's four steps, and the slab gets walked before you ever hear a price. That's how we know whether it's a gentle pass or a full clean.
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Call or fill out the form and tell us what you've got. The driveway, the green along the garage apron, an oil drip, clay tracked off a lot. That's all the booking team needs to get you started.
2
The booking team gets back to you quick, often that same day, and pins down a window that fits your week.
3
Before any water runs, a tech walks the slab with you. How new the concrete is, whether the apron's coated, where the algae's worst, and which marks are oil or red-clay rust versus growth. That's what decides a gentle pass versus a full surface clean.
4
The tech sizes up your actual driveway and gives you a straight price on the spot, free, no obligation, no trip fee. Give the go-ahead and we get to work.
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Lexington neighborhoods we serve
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Questions, answered
Common Lexington driveway cleaning questions
Yes, we just clean it gentler. Concrete keeps hardening at the surface for its first few years, so on a young slab we go low pressure and let the cleaning solution do the lifting. That brings the green up even without the hard pass that can etch a fresh driveway and leave it rough.
About every about every year-and-a-half to two years keeps most Lexington drives ahead of the green. The shaded apron by the garage and any low spot that holds lake damp film back over a little sooner, so those edges are usually what tells you it's time.
Maybe, and I'll be honest before we start. A lot of newer Lexington lots track red clay off the construction next door, and that clay is iron, not algae, so the regular wash won't touch it. It takes a separate acid treatment, and on a young slab that acid can etch the surface, so we'll tell you whether it's worth treating now or better to let the concrete age first.
Oil's a specialty stain, not part of the regular wash. A degreaser and agitation can lighten a surface drip, but only so much, and oil soaked deep into the slab may barely move. We'll show you what to expect before we touch it, and we won't promise it gone.
No. Stripes come from someone swinging a bare wand and overlapping uneven. We bring the whole drive up one tone with steady, even passes and post-treat to pull the color together, and on a young slab we keep the pressure off entirely, so there's nothing to stripe in the first place.
We do. All over Lexington and Lake Murray country, from Gardendale and Coventry Woods to Harrisburg, Kings Grant, and Harbor Side, out the Old Cherokee and Corley Mill side. We come to you, no trip fee. If you're right on the edge of the area, reach out anyway.
What Lexington neighbors say
5 from 24+ Google reviews
Conner and his team did a great job! From the initial communication with them to finishing the job, these guys were responsive, on time, and efficient. They did a wonderful job cleaning the exterior of my home and surrounding carport/concrete. Highly recommend and will definitely use them again!
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Holly O’Mara
Google · a month ago
Conner and his team did a fantastic job cleaning of house trim, sidewalks and driveway. The pricing was fair and I decided to have them clean my 30' Catalina sailboat which they did a great job on as well. Highly recommend!
Paul Tomlinson
Google · a month ago
The crew did a great job cleaning my pool deck and driveway. Arrived on schedule.
Grady Hansen
Google · a month ago
Two nice young workers arrived 30 minutes in advance. They were very polite and helpful in removing all plants from front porch before pressure washing. The house and driveway are so clean now. Great job!
Lin Ko
Google · 4 weeks ago
I saw Jaden and his crew at a neighbors house. Unsolicited the neighbor told me what a great job they did. They washed our entire house and walkways/ driveway and did a great job. A young group of veterans! Outstanding young men and outstanding job!!!
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Jim Lloyd
Google · a month ago
Great company and service! This group of local young men are very knowledgeable, courteous, efficient and hard working. They did a fabulous job on our home, windows and driveway! Highly Recommend!
Amie Toohey
Google · a month ago
Conner and his team did a great job! From the initial communication with them to finishing the job, these guys were responsive, on time, and efficient. They did a wonderful job cleaning the exterior of my home and surrounding carport/concrete. Highly recommend and will definitely use them again!
H
Holly O’Mara
Google · a month ago
Conner and his team did a fantastic job cleaning of house trim, sidewalks and driveway. The pricing was fair and I decided to have them clean my 30' Catalina sailboat which they did a great job on as well. Highly recommend!
Paul Tomlinson
Google · a month ago
The crew did a great job cleaning my pool deck and driveway. Arrived on schedule.
Grady Hansen
Google · a month ago
Two nice young workers arrived 30 minutes in advance. They were very polite and helpful in removing all plants from front porch before pressure washing. The house and driveway are so clean now. Great job!
Lin Ko
Google · 4 weeks ago
I saw Jaden and his crew at a neighbors house. Unsolicited the neighbor told me what a great job they did. They washed our entire house and walkways/ driveway and did a great job. A young group of veterans! Outstanding young men and outstanding job!!!
J
Jim Lloyd
Google · a month ago
Driveway Cleaning in Lexington, Lake Murray country
What sets our Lexington work apart
Lexington's been booming, so a lot of driveways out here are only a few years into the ground: the broom-finished approaches off Corley Mill, the slabs in front of the new builds around Coventry Woods and Harrisburg. That changes how you clean one. A slab in its first couple-few years hasn't fully hardened at the surface, and the green that the lake humidity grows along the shaded apron by the garage is easy to want to blast off with a wand. Hit a young slab too hard and you etch it, leaving it rougher than the algae ever made it. So on the newer driveways we lean gentle: a cleaning solution kills the growth, then an even pass brings it up one tone, no zebra stripes. One honest note before we start: the rusty tint dragged off a builder lot is red clay, which is iron, and an oil drip is petroleum; neither is algae, and each is its own separate treatment we'll square up with you first.
Lexington sits on the south shore of Lake Murray, and all that lake humidity is hard on exteriors. North-facing siding, shaded roofs, and pool decks green up fast from the dam down through the neighborhoods off Old Cherokee and Corley Mill. It's also one of the fastest-growing towns in the state, so there's a lot of newer vinyl and builder-grade brick that does best with a gentle soft wash rather than high pressure.
In Coventry Woods, Leaphart, and Kings Grant, or anywhere else around Lexington, we come to you for driveway cleaning, no trip fee.
While we're at your Lexington place, we can knock out your concrete cleaning, patio cleaning, and pool deck cleaning too, all on the same trip with no second trip fee.
Veteran-owned, and we treat your home like it's ours.
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Our process, step by step
How we clean a Lexington driveway, start to finish
Here's the whole run on a newer driveway around the lake. Gentle enough to spare a still-curing slab the hard pass that can etch it, even enough that it dries one shade from the garage apron to the street.
First thing, we look at how new the concrete is and what's on it. The green creeping up the shaded apron, tire scuff at the street, an oil drip by where you park, red-clay tint tracked off a nearby lot. A slab that's only a year or two old gets a soft, low-pressure approach, because a young surface hasn't fully hardened and a hard pass can etch it.
A cleaning solution goes down across the whole drive and gets real time to work into the pores, so the algae and mildew are actually killed instead of just wetted. That dwell is what lets us skip the heavy pressure a still-curing slab can't take. The chemistry carries the load, not the machine.
We work the slab to a single, uniform shade with steady overlapping passes, no swinging wand, so no clean stripe sitting next to a dirty one. On a drive that's cured but only a few years old, we don't have to pick between babying it and blasting it: we fit a larger-orifice tip that spreads the force out and takes the edge off it, and let a heavier pre-treat soak in so the chemistry carries the load instead of the pressure. The truly green, still-curing slabs skip the surface cleaner entirely and get a straight soft wash. On a coated or sealed apron we keep it lighter still, so the finish and color stay where they belong.
A post-treat evens the color and slows the regrowth, a full rinse clears the residue, and we hand-work the apron, the expansion joints, and the curb line. If an oil or red-clay stain wouldn't lift without risking a young slab, we tell you that straight instead of forcing it.
