Jobs we have finished in Melbourne

Three residential towers on Gladstone Street, South Melbourne, between twenty-two and twenty-five storeys, with all external glazing cleaned by rope access over three weeks by a crew of four.

An annual clean for a returning client on Wrexham Road, Windsor, done in the first week of August. The property is ringed by trees, so the gutters fill every year.

Roof valleys on Narawong Road, Caulfield, packed solid with leaves after several years without a clean. A tree overhangs the roof and everything it drops had collected in the same two channels.

Windows and skylights on St Helen's Road, Hawthorn East, done in July. The third job at this property inside a year, after the paving and then the gutters.

Full-height sliding glass on Yarra Street, Abbotsford, still mid-build. Water had been running down the outside of the panes and drying there, leaving white mineral streaks from the head of the frame to the floor.

Concrete cleaned on Hotham Street, St Kilda East, in the first week of July. Mid-winter is when concrete looks worst here: it never gets a chance to dry out.

A Canterbury home with a terracotta tile roof, cleared in the middle of a Melbourne winter. Two and three quarter hours on site for a single technician.

A two-storey townhouse in Fitzroy, mid-winter, with roughly 40 metres of guttering buried under broad dried leaves. Water was already standing in the channel when the crew arrived — the outlet had stopped taking it.

A two-storey terrace in Middle Park with a box gutter running between the roof sheet and the parapet wall — around 30 metres of it, with dried leaves banked along the join.

A double-storey home in Elwood with 90 metres of guttering under a terracotta tile roof, and gutter guard along the full run. The debris was fine — moss, humus and lichen shed from the tiles themselves.

A badly blocked gutter on Bluff Road, Hampton, cleared at the start of June. Filled to the lip with leaves, and three and a half hours on site for one technician.

A single-storey house on Rockley Road, South Yarra with an old terracotta roof, cleared at the end of May. Gutters full of leaves, and moss established across the tiles.

A large single-storey house on St Helen's Road, Hawthorn East, with roughly 120 metres of gutter under a terracotta tile roof. Cleared in late May.

Gutters and windows on Blenheim Street, Balaclava, in one visit in mid-May. Four and a quarter hours on site for one technician.

A Caulfield North home booked in mid-April, before the winter rain set in. Three and a half hours on site for one technician.

A full inside-and-outside window clean in Elsternwick, booked in mid-autumn. Five and a quarter hours on site for one technician — the longest single window job on our books this year.

A builders' clean on two new townhouses on Dalgetty Road, Beaumaris. Adhesive residue across the glass and paint on the frames, on glazing nobody had touched since it was installed.

External window cleaning on a hotel building on Exhibition Street, carried out from ground level with a water-fed pole system reaching around 18 metres.

A single-storey home in St Kilda with 54 metres of Colorbond guttering that had filled with leaves and seed pods until almost no channel was left for water.

A weatherboard house on Curzon Street. Painted timber walls, eaves lining, the outside faces of the gutters and the windows — the full outside of the house rather than one surface of it.

A single-storey house on Sandham Street in Elsternwick with 72 metres of guttering that had not been cleaned in about five years.

A tiled backyard on Victoria Avenue, Ripponlea, on a gloss finish rather than a matte one. Two and a half hours, one technician.

A whole backyard cleaned on St Helen's Road, Hawthorn East, in September, at the end of the winter growing season when paving looks worst.

A paved area on Fuller Road, Ripponlea, green across the whole surface. Dense matte tile, most likely porcelain, laid tight with narrow joints that had filled with growth.

A full pre-sale clean on a house on Reserve Road, Beaumaris, on the northern edge of the suburb. Walls, glass, balustrades and skylights, all of it in one day before the property went to market.

Tiled paving on Were Street, Brighton, cleaned in July 2025. The tile itself was in good order — it was the grout lines between them doing all the damage to how it looked.

Solar panel cleaning on an apartment building on La Scala Avenue, booked by the body corporate. Around 30 panels across the roof of the four-storey block.

Solar panel cleaning on Grosvenor Street in Balaclava. The array on this single-storey terracotta tile home was heavily overgrown with moss.

A house wash on Richardson Street, Albert Park, done to get the property ready for sale. Victorian facade at low pressure, the rear soft washed, windows and fly screens finished with it.

A seasonal wash on Gleniffer Avenue: a large double-storey house, white render across the walls and around seventy floor-to-ceiling windows, which is an unusual amount of glass for a home rather than a building.

Solar panel cleaning on a double-storey house on Testar Grove, Caulfield North. The array had built up grime with moss starting to take hold on the panel surfaces.

An apartment window clean on Beaconsfield Parade, Albert Park, directly opposite the beach. The glass sits beyond the balcony line, so the outer faces had to be reached with specialist equipment rather than washed from the balcony.

A window clean on Seymour Road, Elsternwick, where the glass sits directly above a swimming pool. There was no dry ground to work from, so the job was done from inside the water.

A full exterior clean on Clapperton Street, Bentleigh in January: rendered walls soft washed, windows done inside and out, and the driveway cleaned. One visit, three jobs.

Skylights cleaned on Canterbury Road, St Kilda West, in October 2024. They had gone a long time without attention, and moss and mould had taken hold around the glass.

A body corporate block on Ruskin Street, Elwood, kept on a standing cleaning arrangement rather than booked when someone complains. Driveway, rear patio and the paths between them, all of it in a single day.

External window cleaning on an apartment block on Cobden Street, South Melbourne. The glass is spread across the building rather than gathered on one face, and a good deal of it can only be reached from inside the flats.

A double-storey St Kilda home with 70 metres of Colorbond guttering, left long enough that the debris had compacted into a solid mat that no longer shifted when it rained.

A double-storey home in bayside Brighton, booked in mid-winter, with 60 metres of Colorbond guttering silted up with leaf litter — the outlets worst of all.

External window cleaning on an office building on Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. Glass only, reached from the ground, with nothing closed off and nobody inside the building interrupted.

Bluestone paving on May Road, Toorak, cleaned in May 2024. Ground-in dirt across the surface, and moss established in the joints and in the stone itself.

Spray paint removed from the front of a property on McIlwrick Street, Windsor, four days into May. Vandalism overnight, with paint across the facade, the tessellated verandah tiles and the step below.

Three adjoining townhouses on Draper Street, McKinnon, with rendered walls that had lost their original colour under years of surface growth and airborne grime.

A roof in St Kilda East under large trees, cleared in April 2024. More than ten bags of leaf litter came off it — years of accumulation nobody had taken away.

Backyard paving on Allison Road, Ripponlea, under a tree that drops resin. The stains were amber, sticky when fresh and rock hard once they had sat in the sun.

Backyard paving on Alston Grove that had gone years without a clean. The surface had darkened to the point where the original colour of the tile was no longer visible.

A driveway on Ruskin Street, Elwood, cleaned at the end of February. Driveways never soil evenly: the wheel tracks stay comparatively clean because tyres scrub them, while the centre strip and edges hold everything else.

Three kinds of glass on one property in Bentleigh, cleaned at the end of summer: windows inside and out, the frameless pool fencing, and skylights on the terrace nobody had been able to reach.

External window cleaning on a three-storey office building on Shearson Crescent. Around 150 windows were cleaned from ground level using a water-fed pole system, in a single day.

Window cleaning on a double-storey house on Hoyt Street with an awkward shape and awkward glass to match.

A single-storey home with a concrete tile roof, cleared in the spring of 2023. The gutter was filled level with the lip — not leaves, but pine needles matted into a solid felt, with twigs sitting on top.

A post-construction window clean on Kaniva Court, Bentleigh East. Glass, frames and sliding channels taken back to finished condition after the builders left.

Dried ivy stripped off the walls of a house on Lodge Street, St Kilda West, in January. Pulling the growth down is the quick part — what it leaves behind is the job.

A pergola roof on Gordon Street, Elsternwick — clear polycarbonate sheeting, completely covered in moss on the upper face. From underneath the light coming through had gone grey and green.