Exterior Cleaning & Soft Washing in Coogee, NSW

Coogee gets the full ocean exposure, and its housing stock makes that worse rather than better. The suburb is dense with interwar and art deco apartment blocks — rendered, painted, often three or four storeys, with balconies facing straight into the weather. Render and paint are exactly the surfaces that suffer most from salt and mould, and exactly the surfaces that must never see high pressure.

Render and paint need soft washing

A pressure wand on rendered walls blows out patches, strips paint and forces water behind window frames and balcony junctions. Every rendered or painted exterior in Coogee should be soft washed — low pressure, a mould-killing solution, dwell time, gentle rinse. The finish is better and the building isn’t damaged in the process.

What looks like a facade needing repainting in Coogee is very often a facade needing washing. We’ve cleaned buildings where owners had already priced up a repaint and didn’t end up needing one.

Balconies, glass and stainless

Ocean-facing balconies collect salt continuously. Glass balustrades haze over, stainless fittings pit and rust-spot, aluminium frames corrode at the joints, and tiled balcony floors grow black algae in the shaded corners. Regular salt removal is genuinely protective maintenance here, not just cosmetic — salt left on stainless and glass causes permanent damage.

Strata is most of the work

Given the apartment density, much of what we do in Coogee is strata: full building facades, common entries and stairwells, shared driveways, basement garage ramps, bin rooms and communal courtyards. We provide photo documentation and scheduling that works around residents, and can quote per-building or on an ongoing maintenance cycle for committees and building managers.