Exterior cleaning in Mona Vale

Headland homes on Surfview Road and Golf Avenue with the full ocean exposure, Inter-war and post-war homes across the village grid, and a growing stock of medium-density strata around Pittwater Road and Mona Vale Hospital. Most of what we clean here dates from 1920s to 1960s with headland rebuilds and 2010s strata, on sandstone headland between Mona Vale Beach and Bungan Beach, with sand flats around the village.

We work around Mona Vale Beach and the Basin rock pool, Mona Vale Headland and the golf course, Pittwater Place and the village and Bungan Head to the north, on streets such as Surfview Road, Golf Avenue, Bassett Street, Darley Street and Pittwater Road. The defining exterior problem is salt and rust on the headland homes, black growth on the south elevations of the strata blocks, and oil and algae on commercial and medical-precinct car parks.

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 Mona Vale. Surfview Road is the first thing the southerly hits north of Long Reef; the homes there lose their glass clarity in ten days, and the ones on a six-week program look like different houses to the ones that call once a year. Nathan G, Founder

Planning and site constraints we check in Mona Vale:

• Coastal hazard mapping on Surfview Road and the headland
• Mona Vale heritage items around the village centre
• Warriewood Wetlands catchment to the south

Run-off. Anything washed off a Mona Vale property ends up in Mona Vale Beach and the Basin 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.