Exterior cleaning in Frenchs Forest

1960s to 1980s brick and tile family homes on large blocks, a growing number of two-storey rebuilds, and the hospital precinct's medical suites, commercial buildings and car parks along Frenchs Forest Road. Most of what we clean here dates from 1960s to 1980s with hospital-precinct redevelopment since 2018, on sandstone plateau between Bantry Bay and the Oxford Falls valley.

We work around Northern Beaches Hospital, Forestway Shopping Centre, Garigal National Park and the Bantry Bay trails and Warringah Road and Wakehurst Parkway interchange, on streets such as Warringah Road, Forest Way, Rabbett Street, Bantry Bay Road and Aquatic Drive. The defining exterior problem is leaf-filled gutters on the bush edges, moss on shaded driveways and paths, mould on render, and oil and gum on the precinct's commercial paving and car parks.

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 Frenchs Forest. Frenchs Forest splits into two kinds of work: family homes with gutters and driveways, and the hospital-precinct commercial sites where car parks and entry paving are hot-washed overnight with vacuum recovery so the water never reaches Bantry Bay. Nathan G, Founder

Planning and site constraints we check in Frenchs Forest:

• Bushfire-prone land along the Garigal and Bantry Bay edges
• Frenchs Forest precinct planning around the hospital

Run-off. Anything washed off a Frenchs Forest property ends up in Middle Harbour via Bantry Bay and Carroll 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.