Exterior & Facade Cleaning in Elizabeth Bay, NSW 2011

Elizabeth Bay (2011) drops from Potts Point down to the harbour’s edge, and that slope defines the work: tiered apartment buildings, garden stairs, and facades that face straight across the water. It’s a suburb of prestige strata — deco, interwar and contemporary — with very few freestanding homes.

Harbour-facing facades age on one side

Buildings here weather asymmetrically. The harbour side takes salt drift and full northern weather; the street side takes shade and traffic film. It’s why the water-facing elevation of an Elizabeth Bay building often looks a decade older than its entrance. A full soft wash levels the two, and the difference on cream deco render is striking.

The deco stock

Elizabeth Bay’s curved deco facades, decorative parapets and original steel-framed windows are treasures that a pressure wand would destroy — render blown out, mouldings eroded, water forced through ninety-year-old window seals. Everything rendered or painted here is soft washed, and detail work around original windows is done by hand.

Gardens, stairs and shade

The suburb’s tiered gardens and connecting stairways — many shaded by figs and dense planting — hold moisture and grow black algae quickly. Common stairs between buildings are a genuine slip hazard once the growth sets in; treating and cleaning them through our mould and moss removal is regular strata maintenance here, not a one-off.

Working with owners’ corporations

Almost all Elizabeth Bay work runs through committees and building managers. We quote per-building or on a recurring cycle, schedule around residents, manage runoff on the steep frontages so nothing sheets down into the property below, and provide photo documentation for records. Fully insured, with the discretion prestige buildings expect. Request a building quote today.