Article written by the Greater Lexington SC Chamber of Commerce about pressure washing in SC

http://www.lexingtonsc.org/blog/2011/06/23/sweet-of-the-week-shabby-to-shiny-palmetto-pressure-clean-rescues-exteriors/

We were featured on the Lexington SC Chamber of Commerce's website as their "Sweet of the Week". The link is above and full text below.

Sweet of the Week – Shabby to Shiny: Palmetto Pressure Clean rescues exteriors

Posted on June 23, 2011 by admin

At Hudson’s Smokehouse, grease is inevitable. Happily, Palmetto Pressure Clean is just a phone call away.

“We had some grease out back that got spilled, and if it stayed there, it would have been a mess and gotten us fines and written up by the city of Columbia,” recalls Steve MacDougall, Hudson’s director of operations. He called Palmetto Pressure Clean to handle the sidewalk spill that occurred at Hudson’s Harbison location. Owner Dustin Cook arrived that afternoon. Before 9 the next morning, Palmetto Pressure Clean was on the scene and the grease became a memory.

Ditto for the old smokehouse at the now-defunct Porky D’s restaurant. When Hudson’s recently began operating from that location, they called Palmetto Pressure Clean to clean the old smokehouse. “It was covered in grease,” Steve says. “Palmetto Pressure Clean came out the next morning and took care of it. DHEC couldn’t believe how clean it was.”

That’s all in a day’s work for Palmetto Pressure Clean, a six-year-old company started by Dustin, a former Marine, and his wife Lana, a fitness instructor. “Restore the Feeling of New” is their trademarked slogan. Homes, RVs, roofs, decks, patios, gutters, vinyl siding, moldy furniture, and graffiti all are fodder for PPC. “We use low pressure with detergent, which cleans, instead of high pressure, which can cause damage,” explains Lana, the company’s sales manager. “That’s the last thing we want to happen.”

Palmetto Pressure Clean (479-7416; www.palmettopressureclean.com) has four employees, a fleet of three trucks, and serves residential customers in Lexington and Columbia. They travel statewide for commercial jobs. A quarterly newsletter includes tidbits about the Cooks’ two small children, dog, and recipes. “We make it family-centered, which is how we run our business,” Lana says. “We treat customers like extended family.”

Restoring something dingy or dirty to clean and sparkling makes for gratifying work, Lana says. “The other day we did a job and the gentleman came outside and said, ‘Wow, this property hasn’t looked this good in 10 years.’”