How we score Myrtle Beach pressure washing companies

This guide currently covers 135 pressure washing businesses serving Myrtle Beach and the surrounding coast. Every one of them gets the same treatment: a composite score from 0 to 100, built from five measured signals pulled from public review data. No business pays to move up the list, and no editor hand-adjusts a number after the fact. What follows is the full breakdown of how that score is built and where it can mislead you if you don't read the fine print.

The five signals, heaviest first

Each business is scored on a weighted blend of these factors:

• Sentiment, 28%. A synthesis of what recent reviews actually say, praise and complaints both, not just the star count attached to them.
• Rating, 26%. The business's aggregate star rating on Google.
• Volume, 20%. How many reviews the business has, log-scaled so that a company with 400 reviews doesn't automatically dwarf one with 40 simply for having more of them, while still rewarding a track record over a handful of opinions.
• Recency, 14%. How recently customers have actually left reviews. A driveway or roof cleaning company that was great in 2019 and quiet since tells you less than one with steady reviews this year.
• Completeness, 12%. Whether the basics are listed and findable: phone number, website, hours, address.

Why sentiment carries the most weight

Star averages flatten everything into one number, and that number can hide a pattern. Two pressure washing companies in Myrtle Beach can sit at the same 4.5 stars, one with a clean spread of satisfied customers and the other with a cluster of recent complaints about no-shows, streaking on stucco, or overspray damage to landscaping, offset by older five-star reviews from a different season of the business entirely. The star average won't show you that. Reading what people actually wrote, and weighting the recent, specific, repeated complaints more heavily than a single outlier, is the only way to catch it before you book a job on your own siding or roof. That's why sentiment is weighted above the raw star rating itself.

Why the other signals still matter

Rating stays close behind sentiment because it's the fastest public signal of general satisfaction, even if it can't show nuance on its own. Volume matters because a 5.0 average built on three reviews carries a lot less certainty than a 4.7 built on 150. Recency matters because pressure washing crews change, equipment changes, and a company's quality three years ago isn't a guarantee of quality today. Completeness matters for a more practical reason: a business that lists a working phone number, real hours, and a website is simply easier to vet and hire, and the absence of that information is itself worth knowing.

The honest limits

This scoring system measures what's publicly visible, and that has real boundaries. A business with only a few recent reviews gets a low-confidence score, and we label it that way rather than pretending the number carries the same weight as one built on a larger, fresher review base. We synthesize themes from reviews, we don't republish them wholesale, and we link out to Google so you can read the original source yourself and form your own judgment. This guide is a starting filter, not a replacement for getting a quote, asking for proof of insurance, or checking recent photos of a company's work.

Scores are earned, not edited

Every score on this site comes from the rubric above and nothing else. Paid placement, on the pages where it exists, is always labeled clearly as such and never touches the underlying score or rank. If a particular list, like our residential house washing picks, involved any editorial review of who made the cut or in what order, that's disclosed directly on that page. Nothing is hidden behind a generic "editor's choice" badge with no explanation.

Who's behind the rankings

Ethan Marsh, Editor in Chief, maintains this guide and the rubric behind it. Questions about how a specific business was scored, or requests to correct outdated business information, run through Ethan and the editorial process, not through a sales channel. You can see the full directory from the home page and drill into specific categories like residential house washing from there.