Render, weatherboard, brick, fibro and Queenslanders. Mostly low pressure, because the point is to take the grime off without taking the paint with it.
People hear “pressure cleaning” and picture a wand blasting the side of a house. On cladding that is exactly how you strip paint, force water behind boards and blow out old sealant. Almost all of a house wash is soft washing — low pressure, with the chemistry killing the mould and the rinse carrying it away.
What you get back is not just a cleaner wall. Mould and lichen hold moisture against the surface, and getting them off is genuinely maintenance rather than cosmetics.
Around Graceville, Chelmer, Moorooka and Tarragindi we are working on houses that are a century old, and they need reading before they are washed. Timber casement windows on the older Moorooka homes leak — we take specific precautions there rather than finding out the hard way. Mature planting sits hard against the walls in Graceville, so plants get covered and rinsed. Lead paint on pre-1970s homes changes how we work entirely.
Painters will tell you a wash is the difference between a paint job that lasts a decade and one that flakes in three years. And for a property going to market, a house wash plus driveway is the cheapest visible improvement available — we do a lot of these around Sunnybank and Sunnybank Hills, usually the week before photos.
A house wash starts at $450. Five things decide where yours lands.
A two-storey with high gables is a different job to a low-set brick home. Height means slower, more careful work.
Painted render, raw brick, weatherboard and fibro all behave differently and some need gentler treatment than others.
Narrow side setbacks, steep blocks and dense planting all add time on the older inner-southside streets.
A shaded south wall carrying fifteen years of mould takes considerably more chemical and dwell time than a wall washed last year.
We are based on Brisbane’s southside. Travel well outside our usual patch is reflected in the quote.
A few hours for a straightforward single storey, up to five or more for a big two-storey. Almost always finished the same day.
No. Close your windows and doors and you can go to work. This one matters more than usual on a house wash — particularly if you have older timber casement windows.
Not the way we do it. We use low pressure on cladding for exactly that reason. Sound paint is fine; paint that is already failing will show it up, which is worth knowing before rather than after.
Plants get covered and rinsed. Around Graceville and Chelmer where planting is right against the house that is a real part of the job, not an afterthought.
We offer external window cleaning from $145, and it makes sense to book it alongside a house wash rather than separately.
Your water, yes. Not your power.
Years of grime and a shaded aspect darken brick so gradually that most owners never notice until it is cleaned.
Tell us the street, roughly how big the place is and whether it is one or two storeys. Photos of the worst wall help more than anything.
