Exterior cleaning in Whale Beach

Clifftop and escarpment homes on Whale Beach Road, The Strand and Malo Road, many architecturally significant, with concrete, glass, timber and sandstone facing straight into the Pacific. Most of what we clean here dates from 1950s weekenders to award-winning contemporary houses, on high sandstone escarpment with a narrow beach between two headlands.

We work around Whale Beach and the rock pool, Careel Head and Little Head, Jonah's on The Strand and Malo Road escarpment, on streets such as The Strand, Whale Beach Road, Malo Road, Surf Road and Norma Road. The defining exterior problem is the full force of ocean salt on glass, render and stainless, rust-run from every fixing, and timber that greys and splits within a season if left.

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 Whale Beach. Whale Beach Road houses face due east with nothing between them and New Zealand; their glass needs a six-week program and their timber an annual oil after cleaning, and we tell owners that before they book. Nathan G, Founder

Planning and site constraints we check in Whale Beach:

• Coastal hazard and cliff-instability mapping along the escarpment
• Bushfire-prone land on the Careel Head slopes
• Heritage-listed modernist houses

Run-off. Anything washed off a Whale Beach property ends up in Whale 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.