Illawarra
Roof cleaning in Wollongong
Wollongong is home base. The roofs are tile and terracotta, the air is salty, and lichen is the thing people call about.
Tile roofs and salt air
From Thirroul and the northern suburbs, through Wollongong and Figtree, down to Dapto and Unanderra, the housing is brick and tile. Terracotta and concrete tile pick up lichen fast this close to the coast. A roof can look red from the street and be grey on the high faces where the afternoon sun doesn't dry it.
That's a softwash job. Blasting tile on an Illawarra roof is how pointing gets blown out. We treat the growth and rinse it. The before-and-afters in the gallery are this kind of roof: same whirlybird, same street, lichen gone.
Escarpment blocks and tight side paths
Keiraville, Mount Pleasant and the streets running up toward the escarpment are steeper and the access is tighter. Two-storey places with a path you can barely walk down the side of. The gear we use is built for that. It's the reason we get onto roofs a lot of pressure cleaners and roof cleaners won't attempt.
Beachside places, Austinmer through to the city, cop more salt. The clean is the same method. The quote changes with the pitch and how we get the hoses in, not with a different story for each suburb.
What people book here
Roof cleaning first. Then exterior softwash on render and painted walls that have gone green on the shady side. Roof painting when the tile colour is finished and a wash won't bring it back. Gutters, driveways and solar get added once we're looking at the place, or booked on their own.
We've been in business 3.5 years, we're insured, and the quote is free. Weather still decides the day. A roof doesn't wash properly in the rain, so we book around it.