Lawn care and pressure washing for Dewey Beach cottages, rentals, and bayside homes — timed around your turnover schedule.
Dewey Beach is barely two blocks wide in places — a narrow strip of sand between the Atlantic and Rehoboth Bay where nearly every property is a cottage, a rental, or an elevated bayfront home built for summer. The town roars from Memorial Day to Labor Day and goes quiet the rest of the year, which means most Dewey properties spend half their life full of guests and the other half sitting empty in salt wind.
With water on both sides, there's no sheltered side of the house here. Ocean spray hits the east-facing walls, bay humidity works on the west, and decks, railings, stairs, and outdoor showers grow slick with algae faster than almost anywhere else I work.
Round Robin keeps Dewey properties clean, safe, and rental-ready — on a schedule that fits around your guests, not the other way around.
Let's be honest: most Dewey "yards" aren't sprawling lawns. They're strips of turf, stone and shell beds, ornamental grasses, and a hedge or two holding its own against the salt. But those small spaces are the first thing guests see in the listing photos and the first thing they walk past with their coolers. I keep Dewey yards trimmed, edged, and cleaned up — including post-storm cleanups when the wind rearranges everything — so the property reads as cared-for from the street.
Pressure washing is where Dewey properties need the most help. Elevated homes mean stairs, railings, and under-deck parking pads that collect grime and go green in the shade. Outdoor showers see heavy use all summer and grow slippery fast. Salt film dulls vinyl siding on every exposure, and the bay side of a house often shows algae even when the ocean side looks fine. I soft-wash siding, clean decks and steps without chewing up the wood, and get walkways and pads back to a color you'd recognize — the kind of cleaning that keeps a rental looking like the photos.
Dewey is small enough that I cover the whole town — ocean block and bay block, from the north end near Rehoboth by the Sea down to the south end toward Indian Beach, and the bayfront homes around the Ruddertowne area. I also serve the neighboring stretches of Route 1 just outside town limits. If it has a Dewey Beach address, I can get to it.
Dewey is a straight run up the coast from my base in Millsboro, about half an hour door to door. Round Robin is owner-operated — one person, not a crew — so the quality doesn't change from visit to visit, and scheduling around Saturday turnovers is a conversation, not a ticket in a queue. Most Dewey owners aren't in town to check the work, and that's fine: I treat the property like you're watching, because someone eventually is. Quotes are always free.
The sweet spot is late spring, before Memorial Day — the decks, stairs, and outdoor shower go into the season clean and safe, and the listing photos match what guests actually find. A second, lighter cleaning in fall clears off the summer's buildup before the property sits through the winter. If your place is between renters mid-season and looking rough, I can usually work a wash into a turnover gap. Just call and we'll figure out the timing together.