Exterior Cleaning in Caulfield North
A suburb rebuilding itself house by house, so the work here is construction film more than weathering. Insured crew, photos on every job.
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Caulfield North is turning over house by house. Not one precinct being redeveloped, but individual sites scattered through established streets, so on most blocks there is something finished, something halfway up and something that has not changed in ninety years.
That has a measurable side effect. Glen Eira carries the lowest tree canopy of any Melbourne council, 12.8 per cent across the municipality in 2022 and 2023 against a target of 22 by 2040, and most of what is left stands on private land rather than on the street.
So the work here splits in two: new builds and the mess they hand over, and the houses either side that got the same mess for nothing.
Fifty-four hectares of green, and not much else
From the air almost all the green in this frame is one thing. The Caulfield Racecourse Reserve is fifty-four hectares of Crown land set aside for three purposes at once, a racecourse, a public recreation ground and a public park, and it sits in the middle of the suburb.
Around it the picture changes. In the council with the least canopy in Melbourne the shade is concentrated rather than spread, and most streets here get sun on the roof for most of the day.
That changes what a roof does. Less shade means less moss, so the roof work here runs closer to dust and film than to the growth we clear under the canopy in Canterbury. The Pental Road job on this page was gutters rather than a mossed roof, and that is typical of the address.
Open ground has a second consequence. Wind carries whatever is loose off a building site across a suburb with little in the way to stop it, and on these streets there is usually a site somewhere upwind.
The handover clean, and the house next door
A knockdown-rebuild produces a fine grey film that does not stop at the boundary. Cement, plaster and cutting dust travel, and the house that takes the worst of it is often the one that had no say in the build.
For the builder it is a handover job with a date on it. The site is finished, the client walks through on Friday, and every surface has to read as new rather than as recently built. That is a different brief to a maintenance clean: nothing here is weathered, it is simply covered.
For the neighbour it is the reverse. Nobody scheduled it, nobody is paying for it, and by the time anyone deals with it the film has stopped rinsing off. Render and glass show it first, and on both the rule is the same: lift it rather than drag it.
We do a good deal of both here, which is the practical argument for one contractor who knows the street. The site itself and the two houses either side of it are the same afternoon.
Services we run in Caulfield North
The work we take on around Caulfield North. Each card opens the full service page.
Gutter cleaning
Vacuumed, downpipes flushed and flow-tested, photo report the same day.
See detailsSolar panel cleaning
Panels washed with demineralised water, frames included, output stops dropping off.
See detailsRoof cleaning
Terracotta and Colorbond, moss and lichen treated to slow regrowth.
See detailsWindow cleaning
Glass, frames and tracks, inside and out, streak-free on the dry check.
See detailsPressure cleaning
Driveways, paving and concrete brought back without scarring the surface.
See detailsSoft washing
Render, cladding and painted surfaces washed at low pressure.
See detailsJobs we've finished in Caulfield North
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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A Caulfield North home booked in mid-April, before the winter rain set in. Three and a half hours on site for one technician.
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Solar panelsSolar 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.
Read case studyQuestions we get from builders and owners
We are a builder. Can you clean at handover?+
Yes, and it is most of what we do on this side of Glen Eira. Glass, frames, render, paving and the entry, timed to the walkthrough rather than to our diary. A finished site is a deadline job and gets treated as one.
The site next door covered my house. Can that be fixed?+
Usually, and sooner is cheaper. Construction film hardens on render and glass the longer it sits, and once it has bonded it needs product and dwell time rather than a hose.
Why is builders' dust worse than ordinary dirt?+
Because it is abrasive rather than loose. Wiped or scrubbed the wrong way it becomes grit under the cloth and leaves fine scratching on glass and powder-coated frames, which is permanent.
Is there less moss on roofs here than elsewhere?+
Generally yes. Glen Eira has the least tree canopy of any Melbourne council, so most roofs here get sun for most of the day and dry out between showers. Dust and film are the local problem instead.
Do you take on strata and multi-unit sites?+
Yes. A good share of the rebuilding here is units rather than single houses, and those come with common property, an owners corporation and a need for a dated photo record.
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Caulfield North jobs are posted to our Google profile with before-and-after photos as they finish.