New Homes Get Dirty Faster Than You Think
Lake Nona's villages are new - Laureate Park, the neighborhoods around Medical City, the subdivisions rising east of Narcoossee Road - but new does not mean clean for long. Construction dust settles into every texture. Fresh stucco shows dirt lines where rain runs down within the first year. Irrigation overspray leaves white calcium marks on walls that have barely cured. And the open landscape means full sun on every surface, baking grime into the finish. A one-year-old Nona home can look five years old without a wash.
The good news: new surfaces clean beautifully. Fresh paint, new stucco, and new concrete respond to soft wash and surface cleaning with dramatic results - the original colors come back like the day the builder handed over the keys. We clean a lot of Nona homes at the one-to-two-year mark, right when the new-home shine starts to fade.
Construction Dust Is Its Own Problem
In the villages still building out, construction dust is constant - fine, pale, and everywhere. It settles on siding, roofs, windows, pool decks, and outdoor furniture, and rain turns it into a film that bonds to the surface. Standard rain does not rinse it; it needs the soft wash treatment: low-pressure washing with cleaning solutions that lift the film without touching the new paint.
For homeowners next to active construction, we recommend washing after the nearby building wraps up - otherwise you are cleaning dust that returns the next week. For completed villages, the annual cycle keeps everything at the like-new standard the HOAs expect.
HOA Standards in the Nona Villages
Laureate Park and the other Nona villages run active architectural review, and exterior appearance is part of it. Driveways with oil spots, siding with dirt streaks, fences going gray - the HOA notices, and the violation letter follows. Our HOA and community cleaning service works with village associations on scheduled rotations: common areas, entrance monuments, community sidewalks, and amenity buildings, plus individual homeowner washes on request.
For homeowners, the annual package - house soft wash, driveway and walkways, pool deck and enclosure - keeps the property at the village standard year-round. The screen enclosures over Nona's many pools need the full treatment: deck surface plus aluminum frame, where construction dust and mildew collect together.
Rust Streaks on New Stucco
One Nona-specific issue: rust streaks on new stucco from well-water irrigation and from the metal flashing and fasteners in new construction. These orange-brown streaks show up fast on light-colored walls and standard washing only lightens them. We apply a dedicated rust treatment that dissolves the staining without harming the new finish - and we flag the irrigation heads causing it so the stains do not return.
Want to know what a cleaning usually involves and how pricing works? Read our Orlando pressure washing cost guide.
Get your free pressure washing quote for your Lake Nona home - fast scheduling, careful soft wash methods, and results you can see from the street.