Exterior cleaning in Curl Curl

Post-war fibro and brick cottages rebuilt in waves since the 1990s into two-storey rendered and weatherboard homes, with the Adams Street and Carrington Parade headland homes taking the full ocean front. Most of what we clean here dates from 1950s cottages, rebuilt 1990s to today, on low sandstone headlands around Curl Curl Lagoon and a long open beach.

We work around South Curl Curl rock pool, Curl Curl Lagoon and Greendale Creek, Adams Street headland and Curl Curl Beach surf club, on streets such as Adams Street, Carrington Parade, Huston Parade, Griffin Road and Pitt Road. The defining exterior problem is salt and black cyanobacteria on south-facing render, green film on fences and Colorbond near the lagoon, and dull, lichen-spotted driveways.

Homes within roughly 500 metres of the surf. Salt arrives on the nor'easter every afternoon and on southerly storms in winter, so nothing stays clean by itself: glass hazes, render streaks, stainless pits and timber greys. We schedule these homes on the shortest cycles we run anywhere in Sydney.

Field note from Curl Curl. Curl Curl has a split personality: the Carrington Parade homes are salt problems, the Griffin Road homes beside the lagoon are mould problems. We quote them with different chemistry and different intervals. Nathan G, Founder

Planning and site constraints we check in Curl Curl:

• Curl Curl Lagoon flood-planning area along Griffin Road
• Coastal hazard mapping on Carrington Parade

Run-off. Anything washed off a Curl Curl property ends up in Curl Curl Lagoon and Curl Curl Beach 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.