Graceville is old houses and big gardens, and the gardens are the part most cleaners get wrong. The planting here sits hard against the walls, which means every wash needs plants covered, rinsed and thought about before a drop of chemical goes anywhere.
Around Graceville and Chelmer we are routinely working on houses that are a hundred years old. High-set timber Queenslanders, original VJ and weatherboard, and paint that in a lot of cases predates 1970 — which means it is very likely lead-based, and that changes how we work entirely. Containment and controlled rinsing, not high pressure into the garden bed.
The tree canopy is the other defining feature. It is what makes the suburb lovely and it is also why the roofs here need doing more often than the flat, treeless streets further south. Constant leaf drop means gutters fill faster, the shaded southern half of the roof stays damp for longer, and lichen gets a grip years earlier than it would in full sun.
Mature planting sits right up against the walls on most of these blocks. We take real precautions around it — wetting down and covering before we start, rinsing thoroughly afterwards — because a house wash that costs you an established garden is not a saving. If a shrub is genuinely in the way and cannot be protected, we will say so before we start rather than after.
Some of the lower streets toward the river have been through floods. If your under-croft or garage slab still carries a silt line, tell us — it behaves differently to ordinary grime and it is worth setting expectations before you book.
Also working nearby: Chelmer, Indooroopilly, Kenmore & Chapel Hill, Moorooka and Annerley.
Same pocket of Brisbane, same era of housing, same heavy tree cover.
