Driveway & concrete
Oil spots, red clay, tire marks, and years of grey film lifted off driveways, sidewalks, patios, and pool decks with a surface cleaner — no zebra striping.
Up to 4,400 PSIPressure washing and soft washing for Ballantyne, NC — with commercial-grade equipment, $2M insurance, and zero shortcuts. Flat-rate quote within one business day.
The right pressure for every job — from heavy-duty concrete blasting to gentle soft washing that protects delicate surfaces.
Oil spots, red clay, tire marks, and years of grey film lifted off driveways, sidewalks, patios, and pool decks with a surface cleaner — no zebra striping.
Up to 4,400 PSIVinyl, brick, stucco, and hardboard cleaned with low pressure and the right solution — the green mildew and black streaks gone without forcing water behind the siding.
Under 500 PSIThose black streaks are algae eating your shingles' limestone filler. Removed chemically at low pressure — never blasted, which strips granules and voids warranties.
Under 500 PSIWood is soft and it shows every mistake. Pressure dialed in by species and age, working with the grain, so the grey weathering lifts and the fibers stay intact.
800–1,500 PSICleared out by hand, then the tiger-striping scrubbed off the outside face — the vertical black streaks that don't come off with a normal house wash.
Hand + soft washStorefronts, dumpster pads, drive-thrus, sidewalks and awnings — cleaned before you open, so a customer never watches you wash gum off the entrance.
Scheduled off-hoursHand washing and touchless rinsing for cars, trucks, trailers, and fleet vehicles — at your home or your yard, without the swirl marks a tunnel wash leaves.
Touchless + handWhat 4,400 PSI does to the three surfaces we clean most. Each slider is a reference pair showing what that surface looks like dirty and clean. They are marked “Sample photo” because they are not our jobs — our own before-and-afters replace them as we shoot them. Your driveway could be our next before & after.
↔ Every slider is live We photograph every job — this gallery fills up with real Charlotte homes as we wash them.
These are the places we drive past on the way to jobs. If you recognise them, we're your neighbours — and we're the crew that actually knows what your siding is up against.
Ballantyne is a district of Charlotte, not a town of its own — no town hall, no mayor, just the far south end of the city between I-485 and the South Carolina line, sitting in Council District 7. Johnston Road, US 521, is the commercial spine, and most of what people picture hangs off it: Ballantyne Village, the stone arches where Ballantyne Commons Parkway meets Johnston, the 535-acre corporate park and its 4.4 million square feet of office, and now The Bowl, whose tenants began opening in 2024, with a 3,500-capacity amphitheater at its north end. Almost all of it went up at once. Johnny Harris and Smoky Bissell got roughly 2,000 acres rezoned in 1992 — the largest rezoning in Mecklenburg County history — and the community was established in October 1995, which is why the streets here read as one generation of construction rather than a town that accumulated slowly.
The housing stock is the whole job description. Neighborhood-level Census tabulations put roughly 4,400 homes in the 1990s build cohort and another 2,000 in the 1980s, against only about 400 from the 2000s and a few hundred since — so the typical Ballantyne house is twenty-five to forty years old. That is the age where the original siding has stopped shedding dirt on its own, the original driveway has gone porous enough to hold a stain, and the roof is either the first one or the first replacement. The houses are also large: the same tabulation shows a median of nine or more rooms and more than 2,000 homes with five bedrooms or more. Large means wide sidewall runs, long driveways and aprons, and back roof planes that get treated from the ground with a soft-wash system instead of walked. Brick, vinyl, and hardboard or fiber-cement all turn up on the same street, and each one wants a different solution strength. Nearly every subdivision out here — Ballantyne Country Club, Bridgehampton, Ballantyne Meadows, Blakeney Heath — is HOA-governed, with design and maintenance covenants attached.
Conditions in this part of the Piedmont are simple to describe and relentless to live with. Charlotte averages 43.6 inches of rain a year spread evenly across all twelve months, average annual humidity sits near 67 percent and climbs into the low seventies from June through September, and roughly 44 days a year hit 90 degrees or hotter. City-wide tree canopy covers about 47 percent of the ground, and Ballantyne's 1990s subdivisions now sit under thirty years of that growth — Thornhill is known specifically for its mature trees — so a shaded roof slope or a north-facing wall stays damp long after the rain stops. That is a year-round growing season for the black-green algae that films vinyl and brick and for the Gloeocapsa magma that streaks shingles in vertical lines. Underneath all of it is Cecil clay, North Carolina's state soil and about a third of the Piedmont; the red is iron oxide, and it is what turns aging concrete orange-brown from the edges inward. Then pollen: tree pollen in Charlotte can start as early as late January and peaks from mid-March into late April, oak and pine coating every horizontal surface, followed by grass in May and June and ragweed in September.
Ballantyne curb appeal is a competitive sport, and the houses are big enough that a half-finished job shows from the street. Concrete gets surface-cleaned with a rotating cleaner so the driveway comes out uniform instead of striped in arcs, and we detail the walkways, the front steps, and the entry — the slow parts a wand-only crew skips. Siding and roofs are soft washed under 500 PSI, where the cleaning solution does the work and the water only rinses. Red clay staining and oil get pre-treated and given dwell time, because pressure alone drives both deeper into the slab instead of lifting them out.
Because almost every neighborhood here operates under an HOA with design and maintenance covenants, green siding and an orange driveway are an association question as much as a curb-appeal one — if your community has a standard to meet, tell us the wording and we will quote the work that answers it. We are a new company, so we are not asking you to take anything on faith: Hyper Tension carries $2M in liability coverage and you can have the certificate the same day you ask, every job carries a 100 percent re-clean guarantee, and Gabriel — the owner — is the one who walks the property with you before the first hose comes off the trailer and again before it goes back on.
Don't see yours? If you're in or around Ballantyne, we'll come — just ask.
We won't pretend we've been washing Charlotte for 20 years. Here's what we bring instead — and why new might be exactly what you want.
Concrete takes up to 4,400 PSI through a surface cleaner. Siding and roofs get soft washed under 500 PSI. Wood sits between 800 and 1,500. One setting for every surface is how damage happens.
Hot-water capable machines, proper surface cleaners, soft-wash injection, and enough hose to reach the back of your property without moving the truck four times.
One number reaches the people who do the work — not a call centre, not a dispatcher, not a form that generates a callback in three days. Questions get answered the same day, by someone who has seen your property.
We look at the job, then give you one number for all of it. No hourly meter, no surprise square-footage adjustment when we arrive with the trailer.
Ask for the certificate of insurance and you'll have it the same day. An uninsured contractor on your roof is a risk that lands on your policy.
Failing mortar, brittle end-of-life shingles, rotten deck boards, active leaks — some surfaces need a different trade first. Saying so costs us the job and keeps our name intact.
We're building our before & after gallery one Ballantyne home at a time. Book now, lock in a founding-customer rate, and if you let us photograph the transformation, we'll take care of you on every future wash too.
Send the address and what needs cleaning. Photos help but aren't required — we can usually read a property from the street view and your description.
One number for the whole job, back to you within one business day. It covers everything discussed, and it doesn't move unless you add work.
On the day and at the time agreed. Plants pre-wetted, delicate surfaces tested first, pressure set per surface, everything rinsed down when we're done.
We go around the property together before we pack up. Anything you're not happy with, we re-do on the spot — not on a follow-up visit.
If it's not spotless, we come back and re-blast it at no charge. We're a new company — our name is worth more than any single invoice, and we act like it on every job.
Yes. Ballantyne Country Club is gated, so we ask for the gate code or visitor-list details when you book and clear access ahead of the appointment rather than sitting at a callbox with the trailer behind us. Lots out here are deep and driveways are long, so we look at the property before pricing it and give you one flat number for the whole job — it does not move because the drive turned out longer than the photo suggested. On the day we need an outdoor spigot and somewhere to park the truck.
No, and we would turn the job down if you asked us to. Those streaks are Gloeocapsa magma, an algae that feeds on the powdered limestone filler in asphalt shingles and takes the shaded and north-facing slopes first — which describes most back roof planes in Ballantyne after thirty years of canopy growth. The Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association is explicit that you should never put a pressure washer on an asphalt shingle roof: it strips the ceramic granules and very likely shortens the life of the whole system. We spray a cleaning solution, let it dwell fifteen to twenty minutes, and rinse at low pressure. The streaks keep fading for weeks afterward, so the roof usually looks better a month out than it does the day we pack up. If your shingles are brittle or near the end of their life, we will tell you to call a roofer before you call us.
We can't tell you what your particular board does — that varies by association, and we haven't read your covenants. What is verifiable is that these subdivisions are HOA-governed with design and maintenance standards attached, and that North Carolina's Planned Community Act (Chapter 47F, §47F-3-107.1) permits an association to charge up to $100 for a violation, plus up to $100 a day for a continuing one, after written notice and a hearing. If a letter has already landed, send us the wording — a house wash and a driveway are usually the entire answer to it.
It depends on square footage, surface, and condition — which is why we quote flat rather than publishing a price list that would be wrong for your property. Send us the address and what needs cleaning and you'll have one number for the whole job within a business day, with no obligation. We'd rather give you an accurate price than a cheap-looking one that changes on the day.
It absolutely can — which is why we don't pressure wash either of them. Siding and roofs get soft washed under 500 PSI, where a cleaning solution does the work and the water only rinses. High pressure on siding forces water behind lap joints and past window seals; on a shingle roof it sweeps off the ceramic granules that give the shingle its UV protection, and most manufacturers void the warranty for it. High pressure is for concrete.
In the Charlotte metro, most homes want a house wash every 12 to 18 months and a driveway once a year. Shade is the variable that matters most: a north-facing wall under mature tree canopy stays damp after rain and grows algae far faster than a wall in full sun, so heavily shaded neighborhoods often need it annually. Pine-heavy properties usually want gutters cleared twice a year rather than once.
We use your outdoor spigot — a standard hose connection is plenty, and it costs a few dollars of water for a typical job. We bring our own power. If your spigot is broken, has low flow, or you're on a well with limited recovery, tell us in advance and we'll plan for it rather than discovering it in your driveway.
We're based in Charlotte and serve the whole metro — Matthews, Mint Hill, Huntersville, Concord, Pineville, Ballantyne, Fort Mill SC, Gastonia, and Indian Trail. If you're near the edge of that list, ask anyway; if you're close, we'll come.
Tell us about the job and we'll come back within one business day with a flat price. Prefer to pick a time? Book a wash online.