FREEDOMExterior
A Freedom Exterior membership handles
the outside of your home on a schedule,
ahead of major repairs and off your list.
Complimentary. Kalen walks your property with you.
Want to see the work up close?
The gallery has every before and after.
How It Works
What many people want is a home that is clean, beautiful and protected all the time, without being the person who makes that happen.
What is usually on offer is a task, and you are still the one overseeing it. So we built the opposite. A service that learns your house and how you like it kept, and knows both a little better every year.
We make major repairs rare.
Every part of your exterior has a replacement cost and a clock ticking on it. The roof, the paint, the windows, the outdoor furniture, the air conditioner. Membership is maintenance that makes each one last longer, so repairs come later and cost less.
FAQs
Four Season Membership is four visits a year, one per quarter, so your home is never more than a season away from us. What happens on each visit is not a package you choose off a menu. It is what Kalen works out at the assessment, from how fast your particular house loads up: how much salt it takes, how much shade it sits in, what the trees drop on it, how the drainage runs, and how you live in it. The plan is built around your home and your lifestyle, and it covers all four seasons. Most homes are well served by four visits. Some want more: an oceanfront house, or an owner who keeps the highest standard, may run eight to twelve visits a year, and we are glad to.
A comprehensive visit is the whole house, roof to curb. The roof, every wall and window, every entryway, the railings and metalwork, the pavers and drives, the enclosure, the gutters and soffits, the sealants. Each surface cleaned, treated, inspected and photographed.
A refreshment visit is the comprehensive visit distilled to what matters most on your home. On the coast, metalwork and glass. Under trees, the roof, gutters and patio. Customized to your house, and anything else we notice gets touched up.
And if there is something you want done, just tell us. A text is enough. We will take care of it on the next visit, and do it properly. Membership is a conversation that runs the whole length of the relationship, not a schedule we set once and stop listening to.
Need it sooner than the next visit? The windows before your guests arrive. The entry after a storm. Members can ask for work outside the scheduled visits at a member rate, and if you can be flexible on timing we will get to it as soon as we can.
No two visits are the same, because no two seasons are. Spring is pollen, and the growth that takes hold in the corners that never see sun. Summer is the moisture that feeds mildew and algae, and the salt drawn across your air conditioning coils. Fall is what the storms leave behind and what sits wet in the gutters for weeks. Winter is salt off the ocean, which travels further inland than most people expect, and which etches glass and eats metal if it is left there.
And a report after every visit. Photographed and written up: what we found, what we treated, and how each surface responded since the last time. That record is yours, and it accumulates. By the third year we are not treating a house, we are treating your house, in the season it is actually in.
We are not a repair or construction company. We do not repaint a house, replace a roof, pour a new driveway, or take on renovation work. We do the maintenance that makes those projects come around far less often.
The house. Siding and soffits, the roof, gutters and downspouts, painted surfaces, and every metal fixture, handle and light on the building.
The ground. Driveways, walkways, entries, pavers and tile, and the pool deck.
Everything past the house. The outdoor kitchen, the furniture and living areas, perimeter walls and fencing, the dock, and your beach or river access.
Every one of those lasts longer maintained than it does left alone. That is the whole job.
Carefully, and differently on every material. Stucco, travertine, cedar shake, powder-coated aluminum and impact glass all want completely different treatment, and getting it wrong is permanent. Tile roofs are treated at low pressure so the tile stays where it was put. Metals are cleaned by hand and then protected, because near the ocean the salt starts working again the same afternoon. That is the actual skill. Not the equipment. Knowing what not to do.
It also means we are working on the surface itself, not only on what has landed on it. Salt inside a hairline crack, sealant gone brittle under ultraviolet, corrosion moving under a coating. Those are the things that decide whether a finish lasts, and none of them come off with water.
Open the Mediterranean estate in Our Clients and look at the carved stone. Hurried work would have taken that detail off along with the grime. It was done by hand, in layers, over hours. And if anything ever falls short, we come back and make it right.
Kalen. He does every assessment himself, he is there for the walkthrough, and he stays your direct line for as long as you are a member. No account manager, no call center, nobody between you and the person responsible for your house.
And the technicians on your property. We are careful about who we hire, and the standard is not only whether they can do the work. It is whether we would be comfortable with them at our own family's house, on a weekday, with nobody home. Most people who apply do not make it past that.
That is the real reason we take a limited number of homes. It only works if Kalen can be at all of them.
No, and no. You do not prepare the property. You do not move furniture. You do not need to be home, ever. You do not coordinate anyone and you do not watch a calendar.
Before every visit you know who is coming and when. After every visit you get a photographed record of the work and anything we noticed. If you are only here part of the year, that is not a reason to skip this. It is the reason it matters most, because the months nobody is looking are the months the coast does its work.
Most of our members had someone too. The issue is not their effort, it is the structure. Someone who comes when you call is responding to what you already noticed, and nobody is holding the history of your house, so every visit starts from zero. Our fourth visit is better than our first, because by then we know how your north wall holds moisture, which hinges go first, and where your drainage backs up in a hard rain.
As for looking fine: by the time a coastal home looks bad, the expensive part has already happened. Growth on a roof is not a stain, it is a layer holding moisture against your tile, and it runs for a year or two before you can see it from the street. The best moment to start is exactly when your home looks fine. That is when preservation is still preservation. Wait, and you are buying restoration instead, which is a different price entirely.
St. Johns, Duval, Nassau, and Clay Counties. Oceanfront, on the water, and inland.
It depends on your surfaces and your exposure, and no two houses on this coast weather the same way. That is the honest answer, and it is the reason the assessment exists. Kalen walks your property, tells you what he actually sees, and gives you a number at your table. No proposal to wait for.
What we can tell you now is that every luxury home here is already spending money on its exterior. The only question is whether it goes out on a schedule or in an emergency, and emergencies are the most expensive way for anything to arrive. Membership is meant to cost less than the repairs it pushes out of your future, which is a different proposition from paying someone to come and clean.
Our cedar shake home was carefully and skillfully cared for from top to bottom. The team worked hard, were professional and considerate of our home and belongings. We are extremely happy with the level of care, and with the entire experience. We enthusiastically recommend.
An absolute pleasure to work with. Kalen listened to what we needed and was clear about what he was going to do. The results were fantastic.
Where It Starts
Kalen does every assessment himself. We take a limited number of homes.