Exterior cleaning in Clermont
Most of Clermont was built this century, and that is not an impression: the Census puts the median year built at 2006 for the city, against 1997 for Lake County and 1988 for Florida. Newer is not easier, it is different — a different mix of buildings, a different irrigation story, and, right now, a live water shortage order: the City's own notice says the St. Johns River Water Management District's order affects Clermont residents, and that order says in writing which washing is allowed here and which is not. What follows is what can be sourced about this city, and where the document stops and so do we.
Built this century, and what the Census does not record
The Census puts the median year built at 2006 for Clermont city and 1997 for Lake County, each within a year, with Florida at 1988. About three quarters of the city's 19,445 housing units went up in 2000 or later, against under half across the county; roughly an eighth of the city's stock predates 1980, against a bit over a fifth county-wide. Mobile homes run the same way: the Census counts 338 of them in the city, while about one in six housing units county-wide is a mobile home. What none of it tells you is what any of it is made of — the Census does not record wall material, roof covering, or what a driveway was sealed with, and a build year does not imply them. So it cannot be guessed off a Census table. It takes a look at the surface, in person or in a photo you send, before anything is quoted.
More apartment and condominium stock than the county around it
The Census counts 4,126 of the city's 19,445 housing units in structures of five units or more, about a fifth of the total, against roughly one in ten across Lake County. Treat both as approximations — the survey's margins move the exact share, though not the direction. That mix changes the work. A multi-unit building is exterior stairs and landings, breezeway ceilings, handrails, bin surrounds and the walkway a resident needs to reach their own door: surfaces that stay in use while they are wet and cannot all be closed off at once. It has to be planned around residents: tell us who manages the property and which stair can be shut at what hour.
The reuse line, and two water systems split by US-27
The City supplies an average of three million gallons a day of reclaimed water for irrigation, to residents and to golf courses, through ninety miles of reuse pipe — its own figures. Its adopted comprehensive plan requires dual potable and reclaimed lines and meters in every new development served by the City system, even where reclaimed water has not reached yet, and requires reclaimed in place of potable for irrigation wherever that supply is available. Then we stop, because the source stops: the City publishes volumes and pipe miles, nothing about what is dissolved in that water, so we will not tell you what it leaves on a wall. One more thing: the City's 2025 drinking water quality report describes two separate public water systems, east and west, with US Highway 27 as the dividing line.
The chain, the Palatlakaha, and a phosphorus line with the City's name on it
Florida DEP's Upper Ocklawaha basin management plan, adopted June 2025, describes the Clermont Chain of Lakes as Minneola, Minnehaha and Louisa plus twelve other smaller lakes, connected by the Palatlakaha River, draining 223 square miles and discharging to Lake Harris. Lake Minneola alone is 1,907 acres and touches Clermont, Groveland and Minneola, per the Lake County Water Atlas. DEP names total phosphorus the primary pollutant of concern in that basin, and on the Palatlakaha specifically, biochemical oxygen demand as well. The City of Clermont is a named stakeholder there, carrying an assigned reduction of fifteen pounds of total phosphorus a year on the river — one of nine lines in that table — reported as fully achieved. The plan attributes that phosphorus to land use and septic seepage. It says nothing about wash water, and we are not going to borrow its numbers to flatter our own work.
The water shortage order, and why it is not a ban
Since 11 May 2026 the St. Johns River Water Management District has had a Phase III extreme water shortage order in force over the portions of Lake County inside the District; the District said again on 21 September 2026 that the declaration remains in effect, and it runs until the District lifts it. It is not a ban. It allows pressure or soft washing of buildings and other structures in preparation for painting or sealing, or as a construction practice. It allows washing driveways, sidewalks and other impervious surfaces for necessary maintenance, such as maintaining a warranty or removing mould, mildew and other potentially hazardous material that cannot be removed by mechanical means, such as a broom or a leaf blower. What it excludes, in as many words, is washing to satisfy a homeowner association or other aesthetic standard: that does not count as necessary maintenance. It then adds that no association or property manager may enforce deed restrictions or community standards that would cause a violation of the order. So a letter about how a driveway looks has the order to answer to as well; ask us which side of that line a job falls on.
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