About Salt & Stucco
A field guide to keeping a home’s exterior clean and sound on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Salt & Stucco is an editorial publication, not a service company. We don’t wash houses. We research and write practical, locally specific guides for homeowners from Pensacola to Naples — because the national home sites treat Florida’s coast like everywhere else, and it isn’t. Salt air, year-round humidity, barrel-tile roofs, pool cages, and pavers wreck exteriors here faster than almost anywhere, and the advice should reflect that.
How our guides are made
Every guide is written for real coastal conditions and reviewed by a licensed Southwest Florida pressure-washing professional for accuracy on method, pricing, and safety. We cite specific ranges and name the real culprits — the algae species, the salt film, the month-by-month timing — rather than vague generalities. When something changes, we update the guide and change the date.
How we recommend local pros — and who owns them
The disclosure first, because it is the part that matters: the local pressure-washing sites we link to by metro are published by the same company that publishes Salt & Stucco. When a guide says “the crew we recommend” in a given metro, that is one of our own properties. Nobody pays us for a placement and a company cannot buy its way into a recommendation — but ownership is a material connection whether or not money changes hands, so we say it here and in the footer of every page rather than let it read as independent.
What that does and does not change. It does not change the guides: the method, timing, and pricing advice is researched and reviewed as described above, and it is the same advice whether or not you hire anyone we link to. It does mean the local recommendation is ours rather than a survey of the market — so get two or three quotes in your metro and compare, the way you would with any single referral. We don’t run a lead form and we don’t sell your information.
What we don’t do
We don’t fabricate reviews or star ratings, we don’t collect your contact details, and we don’t take a cut of any job. Our only aim is to be the guide you’d want before you spend money on your home’s exterior.