Exterior cleaning in Terrey Hills

Large acreage estates with tennis courts, pools, stables and long driveways, substantial rendered and stone homes on two to five acre blocks, and newer estate housing around the village, all bordered by national park. Most of what we clean here dates from 1970s to 2010s acreage homes, on sandstone plateau with shallow soils, national park on three sides.

We work around Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and Duffys Forest trails, Terrey Hills village on Mona Vale Road, Terrey Hills Golf and Country Club and the German International School, on streets such as Mona Vale Road, Booralie Road, Yulong Avenue, Cooyong Road and Myoora Road. The defining exterior problem is roofs and gutters full of leaf, bark and twigs, moss and lichen on shaded tennis courts and paving, clay and tannin staining on long concrete driveways, and large areas of render to keep clean.

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 Terrey Hills. Terrey Hills is the job where the 10/50 clearing rule, the Asset Protection Zone and a full gutter clear all come together before November; we schedule the acreage estates in September and October and the photos go to owners and, when asked, their insurers. Nathan G, Founder

Planning and site constraints we check in Terrey Hills:

• Bushfire-prone land across the entire suburb, mostly at the highest category
• Ku-ring-gai Chase and Garigal National Park boundaries
• Rural zoning with Asset Protection Zone requirements

Run-off. Anything washed off a Terrey Hills property ends up in Cowan Creek and Middle Harbour headwaters 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.