Exterior cleaning in Forestville

Post-war brick and weatherboard homes on large blocks that run down to Middle Harbour Creek and Garigal National Park, with steady rebuilds in render and Colorbond and a village of low-rise strata around The Centre. Most of what we clean here dates from 1950s to 1970s with ongoing rebuilds, on sandstone slopes falling to Middle Harbour Creek and the Cascades.

We work around Garigal National Park and the Cascades, Forestville shops on The Centre, Forestville Park and Melwood Oval and Middle Harbour Creek, on streets such as Warringah Road, The Centre, Starkey Street, Cook Street and Currie Road. The defining exterior problem is gutters and valleys full of leaf on the park edge, moss on steep shaded driveways, lichen on paving and weatherboard that greens in the humid gully air.

Terrey Hills, Duffys Forest, Belrose, Davidson, Frenchs Forest, Ingleside and the plateaus behind the beaches back onto Garigal and Ku-ring-gai Chase national parks. Salt is minor; leaf litter, shade, bushfire-prone-land obligations and acreage-scale hard surfaces decide the work.

Field note from Forestville. Forestville's gully-side weatherboard homes near the Cascades sit in cool, damp air; the boards green on the south side every two years, and a low-pressure soft wash with the laps rather than against them keeps the paint intact. Nathan G, Founder

Planning and site constraints we check in Forestville:

• Bushfire-prone land along the Garigal and Middle Harbour Creek boundaries
• Middle Harbour Creek catchment

Run-off. Anything washed off a Forestville property ends up in Middle Harbour 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.