Roof Cleaning Melbourne
Blocked gutters, stained tiles, moss taking hold. One insured crew for all three — fixed price before we start, photos the same day.
- $20M public liability insurance
- Police-checked, WorkSafe compliant
- 5.0 from 170 Google reviews
- Not happy with the work? You don't pay
What roof cleaning covers, and what it costs
WaterCrew cleans roofs across Melbourne, and roof cleaning covers three different jobs: clearing the gutters and downpipes from $275, soft-washing the roof surface itself from $352, and treating moss and lichen at the root from $495. Roof and gutter cleaning booked as one visit is $748. Every price includes GST and is fixed before we start. The crew carries $20M public liability cover, and an IRATA Level 3 technician is on site for anything at height. Which job you need depends on what you can see from the ground, and the table below sorts that out.
Roof and gutter cleaning in one visit
Booked separately, each job carries its own call-out: the crew travels, sets up access, works, packs down. Do it twice and you pay for that twice. In one visit the setup happens once, and with the technician already on the roof the second job is labour rather than a fresh mobilisation — which is where the roof cleaning cost comes down.
Roof and gutter, one visit
$748
We'll only suggest it when the roof genuinely needs treating. If it doesn't, gutters on their own is the right call, and we'll tell you so.
Our roof cleaning services in Melbourne
Vacuum clear-out of the channels, every downpipe checked for flow, before-and-after photos the same day.
Soft wash for tile and Colorbond. Lifts dirt, grime and weathering off the surface without high pressure.
Treatment that kills the growth at the root, instead of scrubbing the top off and leaving it to grow straight back.
Which job your roof needs first
Selling the house
The roof is the first thing in the street photo. A wash changes it more than any other job outside.
Keeping on top of it
Gutters first. A blocked run does real damage, while a dirty roof only looks bad.
After a storm
Check the downpipes before anything else. That's where debris lodges and pushes water back into the ceiling.
Recent roofs we've cleaned and washed
Gutter cleaning on a double-storey house on Ercildoune Street, Caulfield North. The gutters were completely blocked, with grass growing out of them.
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Two hundred square metres of roof on Rockbrook Road, carrying enough moss to change its colour from the street.
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A long single-storey house on Hoddle Street in Elsternwick with around 80 metres of guttering and downpipes blocked with compacted soil. The full run was cleared with SkyVac vacuum equipment from the ground.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Why homeowners let us on the roof
Roof work means someone on your property, at height, with equipment. Here's what stands behind the roof cleaners who turn up.
Insured
Public liability cover of $20M, and we'll send the certificate before the booking if you want it.
IRATA Level 3
Our founder holds IRATA Level 3, the top grade of industrial rope-access certification. It's why we work on pitches and second storeys a ladder crew won't.
Melbourne local
Founded here in 2023. Not a franchise, and not a lead agency passing your job to whoever answers first.
Photos on every job
Before-and-after shots of the work, sent the same day, so you can see the result without going up a ladder.
Roof cleaning questions we get asked
What's the difference between roof cleaning and gutter cleaning?+
Roof cleaning is surface work — the tiles or sheets themselves. Gutter cleaning clears the channels and downpipes that carry the water away. Different jobs, different prices, and most homes need both eventually.
Can I book more than one of these at once?+
Yes. Gutter cleaning and roof treatment in one visit is quoted from $748 — one access setup instead of two. Tell us what you're seeing and we'll quote the combination that makes sense, not the longest one.
How much does home roof cleaning cost in Melbourne?+
Gutters start at $275, roof washing at $352 and moss treatment at $495. Gutter cleaning and roof treatment together in one visit is from $748. Send a photo and we'll give you the real figure for your roof.
Do you repair roofs as well as clean them?+
No — we clean. Roof repairs and guttering work need a licensed roof plumber, and that's not us. If we spot damage while we're up there, we photograph it and tell you.
Which job should I book if I'm not sure?+
Send a photo or the address and we'll tell you. Often it's only one of the three, and we'd rather say that than quote you for all three.
Drone inspection before a roof cleaning quote
Roof cleaning Melbourne wide starts with a look, not a price list. We come out and assess the roof before quoting: what the covering is, how far the soiling has gone, whether the moss has taken root, and what state the gutters and downpipes are in. On a two or three-storey house that used to mean someone on the tiles. Not any more — our founder holds CASA accreditation to fly a drone, so we photograph the whole roof from above and nobody walks on it to price the job.
What the roof cleaning photo report shows
Every section gets photographed before and after — not just the one that looked worst. Find something on the way? A cracked tile, rust starting in a valley, a bracket letting go. It goes in the same report with a note on what we saw, and you get all of it when the job is done, whether or not it changes anything for you. What we don't do is quietly fix things and add them to the bill.
Why roof cleaning cost drops with routine visits
If you're happy with the result, the last conversation is about keeping it that way. Most homes settle into a routine visit rather than a rescue job, which is the cheaper end of roof cleaning cost across a few years, because a clean surface wears more slowly than a dirty one. Anyone quoting cleaning roof cost for a maintenance plan sight-unseen is guessing. Roof cleaning Melbourne homeowners actually keep up with is the kind priced off what the roof did between the first two visits — which is why our roof cleaners set it then, not before.
Where roof cleaning fits with the rest of the outside
Roof cleaning is one part of the outside of a house, and the rest of it follows the same order. Anything washed above a surface drains onto it, so the roof goes first and the ground goes last. Ask for whichever combination you need and we will quote it as one visit rather than four.