Lanai cleaning in Pine Ridge.

A Pine Ridge cage sits under acreage canopy, which means the roof panels take a continuous fall of leaves, needles, and seed pods. That debris does not blow off a screen roof the way it would off a solid one — it sits in the mesh, holds water after every rain, and rots there, which is what stains the panels and grows the mold that then works down the walls of the enclosure.

Our lanai cleaning starts by clearing the roof panels of what is sitting on them, because washing under a loaded roof just moves the problem. Then screens are soft washed in place at low pressure, framing and beams are cleaned including the top faces where debris collects, the floor is washed to the surface, and the kickplates, tracks, and corners are hand-detailed.

Trimming the limbs actually overhanging the cage is the single most effective thing an owner can do out here, and we will point out which ones. The debris that ends up in the gutters alongside is gutter cleaning, and the deck is pool deck cleaning. More on the area in Pine Ridge.