Exterior cleaning in Cromer

1960s and 1970s brick family homes on big, flat-to-sloping blocks around the golf course, many now rebuilt or extended with rendered facades, pools, and long concrete driveways. Most of what we clean here dates from 1960s to 1970s with steady rebuilds, on clay and shale slopes above South Creek, draining to Dee Why Lagoon.

We work around Cromer Golf Club, Dee Why Lagoon catchment and South Creek, Cromer Park and Fisher Road shops, on streets such as Fisher Road, Carawa Road, Hilltop Road, Coolong Street and Toronto Avenue. The defining exterior problem is red clay staining on driveways after storms, moss and lichen on shaded concrete and pavers, and mould on the southern render.

The suburbs one ridge back from the surf, such as Queenscliff, Balgowlah, Allambie Heights, Beacon Hill, Cromer, Collaroy Plateau, Elanora Heights and Bilgola Plateau, get the salt haze on ocean-facing glass without the full battering, and the mould and lichen that come with sea-level humidity.

Field note from Cromer. Cromer's storm run-off carries fine clay onto the concrete; it looks like a stain but it hot-washes out with a rotary cleaner in one pass, which is cheaper than the sealer some owners are sold. Nathan G, Founder

Planning and site constraints we check in Cromer:

• South Creek corridor drains to Dee Why Lagoon
• Bushfire-prone land on the Cromer Heights and golf course bush edges

Run-off. Anything washed off a Cromer property ends up in Dee Why Lagoon via South Creek unless it is stopped at the kerb. Northern Beaches Council enforces the NSW EPA rule that wash water, detergent and sediment stay out of stormwater, so we bund drains, capture run-off and vacuum-recover on sealed or commercial sites. More in our stormwater guide.