Hot water, no chemical residue
Heat and dwell time break down manure film, urine salts and bedding buildup on stall walls, mats, kick boards and floors. Nothing is left behind for a horse to lick, chew or breathe.
Horse trailers, barns & stalls
Horse trailer washing and barn cleaning, done at your place.
Aluminum trailers cleaned without acid. Stalls and barns cleaned with hot water instead of chemicals. We come to your ranch, seven days a week.
- No acid wash
- Aluminum cleaned without etching it
- No chemicals
- Hot water only in barns and stalls
- 100% mobile
- We come to the ranch
- $2M GL
- Licensed and insured
Horse trailer washing
Aluminum is soft. Most trailer washing treats it like it isn’t.
A horse trailer is one of the more expensive things sitting in most people’s yard, and it’s usually the worst-maintained. It sits out in Arizona sun, hauls through dust and mud, and gets hosed off maybe twice a year.
Then somebody offers a cheap acid wash. It works — oxidation comes off fast and the trailer looks bright for a few weeks. What it also does is dull and streak the aluminum, open up the surface, and leave the finish oxidizing faster than before. Every acid wash makes the next one more necessary.
We don’t work that way. Hot water, controlled pressure, cleaning products matched to the surface, and enough time to let the process do the work instead of forcing it. We keep pressure and stand-off appropriate around seams, rivets, hubs, brake lines, wiring and decals. Bare aluminum, polished aluminum, painted panels and skirting all get handled differently.
Exterior
- Full exterior wash — roof down, including the nose, skirting and the back doors everybody forgets.
- Oxidation and road film — the chalky haze on bare aluminum, worked down without acid.
- Wheels, tires and hitch — brake dust, grease and the gooseneck or bumper-pull hardware.
- Glass and vents — windows, roof vents and drop-down feed doors.
Interior
- Stalls, walls and dividers — washed and rinsed down, not just swept out.
- Mats pulled and cleaned underneath — optional, and the single most valuable thing you can have done. What’s trapped under a mat is what rots the floor.
- Tack area — swept, wiped and rinsed where the surfaces allow.
We’re not a detail shop. No upholstery, carpet extraction or living-quarters interior work.
How we price it
By the foot, like the rest of the trailer industry. A two-horse bumper pull and a 30-foot living-quarters gooseneck are not the same job. Exterior, interior and oxidation work quote separately so you only pay for what you want. Send us the length and what you want done and we’ll give you a real number.
Barns, stalls & breezeways
Hot water instead of chemicals, because your horses live in there.
A barn is not a parking lot. Whatever gets used in a stall doesn’t rinse away and disappear — it stays on the walls your horse chews on and in the air it breathes for the rest of the day. So we clean barns with heat and water and leave the chemistry out of it.
Horses out, bedding stripped
Every stall we clean gets emptied first — horses to turnout, bedding out. We work with your turnout routine so it isn’t a disruption, and we never wash around an animal that’s standing in the stall.
Pressure set to the surface
Stall interiors get controlled low pressure on purpose. Blasting a stall at full pressure drives manure dust and pathogens into the air and onto everything nearby — the opposite of clean.
Aisles, breezeways and wash racks
Concrete aisles, wash bays, grooming stalls and feed rooms. Surface cleaners on flat concrete, hand work on everything that surrounds it.
Exteriors and outbuildings
Barn siding, run-in sheds, tack rooms, hay barns and metal outbuildings. Soft-washed where the surface calls for it rather than pressure-blasted.
Panels, gates and equipment
Corral panels, gates, feeders, waterers and stock trailers. The metal that sits in manure and mud all season and never gets touched.
Being straight with you
What we will and won’t tell you about barn cleaning.
Cleaning is not the same as disinfecting. A hot-water wash removes manure film, urine salts, bedding residue and organic buildup, and it makes a barn a much healthier place to breathe. It is not the same thing as a veterinary disinfection protocol.
If you’re dealing with an active disease situation, a quarantine, or a stall that housed a sick horse, that calls for a labeled disinfectant applied at a specific contact time, usually under guidance from your vet. We’ll do the cleaning stage that has to happen first — organic matter has to be gone before any disinfectant works — and we’ll follow your vet’s protocol if you have one. What we won’t do is tell you a hot-water wash sanitized your barn when it didn’t.
Where the water goes matters here too. Manure-laden wash water is not something to run into a wash, a drainage channel or a storm drain. We plan the job around your barn’s existing drains, a manure pile, or an appropriate landscaped or pasture area. If your operation has specific requirements, tell us up front.
Where we go
Horse country is our backyard.
Chino Valley, Williamson Valley, Paulden and Dewey-Humboldt have more horse property per square mile than anywhere else around here. That’s our regular ground and it’s a short drive with a full rig.
- Prescott
- Prescott Valley
- Chino Valley
- Dewey-Humboldt
- Williamson Valley
- Paulden
We travel beyond that — Mayer, Cordes Lakes, the Verde Valley and further — at our discretion. Those jobs may include a travel fee depending on distance and the size of the job. See all service areas.
Horse trailer & barn FAQ
What horse people ask us first.
Do you use acid or brightener on aluminum trailers?
No. Plenty of outfits do, because acid strips oxidation fast and makes a trailer look bright in one pass. It also dulls, streaks and etches the aluminum underneath, and every time it gets done the finish comes back harder to clean. We use a hot-water process and cleaning products matched to the surface, and we keep the wand at a respectful distance from hubs, brakes, wiring and seams. It takes longer. Your trailer lasts longer.
How do you price a horse trailer?
Most trailer washing is priced by the foot, and we quote the same way — a two-horse bumper pull is a very different job than a 30-foot living-quarters gooseneck. Exterior wash, interior clean-out, and oxidation work on bare aluminum are priced separately so you only pay for what you actually want. Call or send us the trailer length and we’ll give you a number.
Can you do the inside of the trailer too?
Yes. Stalls, mats, walls, dividers and the tack area. Pulling floor mats out to clean underneath them is the part most people skip and it’s where the damage starts — urine and manure sitting under a mat is what rots a floor and corrodes the frame. Tell us if you want mats pulled; it adds time but it’s the difference between clean and actually clean.
Do you clean the living quarters?
We clean the horse area, the tack room and the exterior. We are not a detailing company — we don’t do upholstery, carpet extraction, cabinetry or anything you’d call RV interior detailing in a living-quarters trailer.
Do the horses need to be out of the barn?
Yes, and this isn’t negotiable. Horses go to turnout or a separate paddock before we start, and the stalls we’re working get stripped of bedding first. Washing around a horse that’s standing in the stall puts water, aerosolized dust and manure particles straight into the animal’s airway. We’ll schedule around your turnout routine so it isn’t a hassle.
What do you use in the barn?
Hot water. That’s the point. Heat and dwell time do the work in a barn instead of harsh cleaners, which means nothing is left behind on surfaces your horses chew, lick and breathe around. Ammonia-based and bleach-based cleaners are common in barns and both are rough on equine airways — and bleach and ammonia happen to corrode aluminum too. If a barn has a specific biosecurity protocol that calls for a labeled disinfectant after cleaning, we’ll work to it, but we won’t volunteer chemicals into your barn that don’t need to be there.
Do you need our water?
Yes — we need a spigot on site. We carry tanks and make our own hot water and pressure, but a tank won’t get us through a barn or a big trailer. A standard hose bib is all it takes. We don’t need your power.
Do you travel out to the ranch?
We’re fully mobile — your trailer never leaves your property. Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, Dewey-Humboldt, Williamson Valley and Paulden are our regular ground. We go out to Mayer, Cordes Lakes, the Verde Valley and further at our discretion, and those jobs may include a travel fee depending on distance and how much work is on the ticket. Ask when you call — (928) 227-5725.
Trailer, barn, or both.
Tell us the trailer length or the number of stalls and we’ll get you a real number. We come to you, seven days a week.