Roof and gutter cleaning
Soft washed roofs and cleared gutters, reached by ladder — the growth killed, the downpipes flowing.
Phones on Mon–Sat. After that, send a text and we call back before 9am.
- How long
- Most roofs take half a day. For gutters on their own, most homes take 1–2 hours.
- Where
- Broadbeach based, Gold Coast wide
- Price
- Free, no-obligation on-site quote. We do not publish figures.
- Access
- Ladder only, single and second storey. No harness, no fall arrest, no elevated work platform.
- Fibro
- We do not pressure-clean asbestos cement. If we find it, we stop and tell you in writing.
- Arrival
- Arrival window confirmed the evening before.
How it gets done
The same order, every job. If we depart from it, you hear on the day.
- Walk the property first — roof type and condition, pitch, ladder footings, anything pre-1990 or fibro.
- Shut windows, move what is under the eaves, and soak the beds and lawn along every run-off line.
- Clear the gutters by hand into bags, roof debris included, so nothing goes down a downpipe.
- Flush each gutter run and every downpipe, and check where the water actually comes out.
- Apply the soft-wash solution to the roof and let it dwell — no pressure on tiles, capping or sheeting.
- Rinse at low pressure, working down the pitch, keeping water off freshly cleared gutter joints.
- Re-rinse the gardens, paths and lawn so nothing is left sitting concentrated.
- Photograph each gutter run and downpipe, and walk the ground with you before we pack up.
What comes with every job
Not a premium package. It is what a job is, at no extra charge.
- A walk around first
- We go over the property with you before a hose comes off the ute. You hear the bad news at the start.
- Before photos, every job
- Shot before we touch anything, including whatever was already cracked, lifting or perished. That record is as much for you as for us.
- Plants, drains, furniture
- Garden beds wet down and rinsed. Drains and pits covered. Furniture, mats and the barbecue moved out of the way and put back.
- Biodegradable products
- Diluted, left to work, then rinsed. Drains and pits in the wash zone stay covered, and run-off keeps off the inlet where the fall allows.
- The full photo set
- Before, after, and a separate set of anything already damaged. Out with the invoice, sooner if you ask.
- A person you can text
- The number reaches the person who will be standing on your driveway. No call centre, no subcontractor.
None of it is an add-on. No tier unlocks it. Hold any exterior cleaning quote against the list, ours included.
A Gold Coast roof grows things.
Humidity that barely drops from November to March, salt drift off the water and a southern pitch that never dries out give lichen, moss and gloeocapsa the three things they need, and the black streaking that follows is the surface being colonised rather than dirtied.
The instinct is to point the biggest machine on the trailer at it.
That instinct is what turns a cleaning job into a roofing job, and it is worth understanding exactly why before anyone climbs a ladder with a lance.
Soft washing, not pressure
Soft washing means the solution does the cleaning and the water only rinses. We apply a dilute sodium hypochlorite blend with a surfactant so it holds on a pitched surface instead of running straight to the gutter, let it dwell while it kills the growth through, then rinse at low pressure. The reason this beats pressure on a roof is biological before it is mechanical. Lichen is not dirt sitting on top of a tile: it anchors into the surface with rhizines that run down into the pores, so a jet takes the visible thallus off and leaves the anchor alive and fed. The roof looks clean on the day and is re-establishing within a season, which is why blasted roofs tend to come back faster than they did the first time. Kill the organism and the regrowth clock starts from nothing. Dead lichen also keeps weathering off after we leave, so a roof that is still shedding a fortnight later is doing what it should rather than something going wrong.
Why pressure wrecks a roof
Concrete roof tiles are porous, and they leave the factory with a coloured surface coating over that porosity. High pressure strips the coating, opens the pores and leaves a rougher, thirstier tile than the one you started with — a better home for the next colony, and the reason a pressure-cleaned roof usually gets sealed afterwards, which is a second trade and a second bill. Terracotta has a fired glaze that does the same job and chips the same way. Then there is the ridge capping: on most Gold Coast roofs it is bedded in mortar and pointed over the top, and pointing is the softest thing on the roof. A pressure jet blows it out in seconds, and the failure does not announce itself — you find it the following March when water tracks along a batten and marks a ceiling. Pressure also drives water sideways under tile laps and sheet overlaps, past whatever sarking is there, and plenty of older homes here have none. Add the mechanical risk of walking a wet, steep, lichen-covered pitch and the case for blasting a roof runs out entirely.
Gutters cleared, downpipes flushed
Gutters get hand-cleared into bags rather than flushed along the run, because pushing a season of leaf litter, grit and tile sediment down the system is how a downpipe blocks solid at the bend where nobody can see it. Debris comes off the roof with us, not into your garden bed. Once the runs are clear we flush each length so you can see it falling the way it was set, and we run water down every downpipe and watch where it comes out — at the spreader, into the tank, or into a stormwater pit that may itself be the blockage. Anything that does not flow gets worked from the top, and if it still will not clear we tell you what it looks like rather than forcing it. You get a photo of each gutter run and each downpipe, so what you are paying for is on your phone instead of on a roof you cannot see. The timing that matters is before the wet, not after it: a gutter that overflows backwards spills behind the fascia, and rotten fascia and a stained eave cost multiples of the clean that would have prevented them. Leaf guard helps and does not exempt you — silt still builds under it, and guarded gutters take longer because sections have to come up and go back.
Ladders, single and second storey
We work off ladders. That is the whole access method and it is worth being blunt about, because it decides what we can honestly quote. Single-storey roofs are straightforward. Second-storey roofs are in scope where a ladder can be footed on firm, level ground at a safe angle with something solid to land against — which rules out more houses than people expect: a pool or a retaining wall directly below the eave, a steep or soft batter, a courtyard too tight for the right ladder angle, a fragile or badly deteriorated roof surface, or a pitch too steep to move on safely. We do not use harnesses or fall-arrest systems, we do not hire elevated work platforms, and we do not take high-rise or multi-storey commercial facades. So we look first, and where part of a roof cannot be reached safely we clean what can be and name the part we have left rather than improvise at height. One thing that surprises people: we soft wash roofs to second storey, but we do not wash second-storey walls. Wall and facade washing is ground level only, done with a telescopic lance from the ground. Roof up, walls down — that is the line, and asking how many storeys before we quote is how we hold it.
Super Six and fibro
Corrugated asbestos cement roofing — the sheeting everyone calls Super Six — was on Gold Coast houses, garages, carports, patios and sheds for decades, and it is still up there on plenty of pre-1990 homes, along with fibro eaves and gable infill. High-pressure water on asbestos cement is prohibited under Queensland's asbestos code of practice, because it releases fibres into the air and into run-off that goes to your garden and the stormwater drain. Weathered sheeting is worse than intact sheeting, and a roof is the one place it is always weathered. The rule does not bend and there is no gentle version of it: we do not high-pressure it, we do not test it, and we do not guess. If we identify or suspect asbestos cement anywhere in the scope, we stop that part of the work, tell you plainly what we have found and put it in writing. Confirming what a sheet is and doing anything about it is work for a licensed assessor and removalist, not a cleaner.
Cleaning is not restoration
This is a cleaning service and the distinction is a licensing one, not modesty. Roof cleaning — killing the growth, rinsing the surface, clearing the gutters — is work we do. Roof restoration is a different job: sealing, coating or painting tiles, re-bedding and re-pointing ridge capping, replacing broken tiles or sheets, repairing flashings. That is licensed building work under the QBCC, we do not hold that licence, and we do not do it or subcontract it into a quote to make one look bigger. What we will do is tell you what we saw from up there — slipped tiles, cracked or missing pointing, rusted valleys, a gutter past clearing and into replacement — with a photo, so you can put it to a licensed roofer with something to look at. Saying it at the quote costs us nothing and stops you paying twice.
Questions we get asked
Will you pressure clean my roof if I ask you to?
No, and it is the one request we turn down flat on tiles, terracotta and ridge capping. Pressure strips the surface coating off concrete tiles, blows out pointing, drives water under laps into the roof cavity, and leaves the lichen anchors alive so it grows back faster. Soft washing gets a better result and leaves the roof in the condition it was in. If a contractor offers to blast it, ask who is paying for the re-pointing.
How high can you go?
Up to a second-storey roof, and only where a ladder can be footed safely — firm level ground, a proper angle, something solid to land against. We use ladders only: no harnesses, no fall-arrest systems, no elevated work platforms, no high-rise and no multi-storey commercial facades. Where part of a roof cannot be reached safely we clean the rest and tell you exactly what we have left, rather than improvising at height.
You do second-storey roofs but not second-storey walls?
Correct, and it is deliberate. Roofs are worked from a ladder at the edge. Walls are washed from the ground with a telescopic lance, which is why house washing is ground level only — we do not take on second-storey wall or facade washing. So on a two-storey home we can soft wash the roof and clear the gutters, and the walls we do are the ones reachable from the ground. We will be specific about which is which while standing there with you.
How often does a Gold Coast roof need it?
Most roofs want a soft wash every three to five years, and it swings hard on aspect and trees. A southern pitch under a big fig goes first; a north-facing sheet roof in full sun can go much longer. Gutters are the opposite — most homes want them cleared annually, and twice a year under gum, jacaranda or poinciana. Booking gutters before the wet season rather than after it is the single most useful piece of timing on this page.
My roof is fibro or Super Six. Can you clean it?
Not at pressure, and in practice that usually means not at all. Corrugated asbestos cement and fibro eaves are prohibited from high-pressure cleaning under Queensland's asbestos code of practice, and weathered sheeting — which is what roof sheeting always is — is the worst case for fibre release. If we identify or suspect it we stop that part of the work, tell you what we have found and put it in writing. Testing and handling it is a licensed assessor's and removalist's job.
Can you seal or paint the roof afterwards?
No. Sealing, coating, painting, re-bedding and re-pointing are roof restoration, which is licensed building work under the QBCC and not something we hold a licence for. We clean. If we see slipped tiles, cracked pointing or rusted valleys while we are up there, you get a photo and a plain description so you can hand it to a licensed roofer.
Do you take the gutter debris away?
Yes. It comes off the roof in bags and leaves with us — it does not get flushed down the downpipes and it does not get dumped in the garden bed. That is also why we clear by hand before flushing: pushing a season of leaf litter and tile grit into the system is how a downpipe blocks at a bend where nobody can see it.
Why is there no price for a roof clean?
Because a single-storey sheet roof on a flat block and a second-storey tile roof with a pool under the eave and a fig over the back half are not the same job, and one number would be wrong for one of them. We come out, look at the roof, the ladder footings and the gutters, and give you a fixed price on the spot for the scope we agree standing there — and if the job on the day turns out to be a different one, we stop and talk to you first. The visit is free with no obligation.
Not sure it needs doing?
Ring and describe it. We will tell you straight.
Ask for a quote
We look at the job and price it on the spot. It costs nothing.
After hours the form still reaches us. We call back before 9am.
Suburbs we cover
Roof and gutter cleaning across the Gold Coast. These are the ones written up so far.
Related services
Two or three surfaces on one visit costs less than separate trips.
House washing
Soft washing for render, Colorbond, weatherboard and brick — mould off, paint on.
Vegetation removal
Overgrowth, self-seeded growth and vines cut back and taken away — including the large stuff most cleaners walk past.
Commercial and body corporate cleaning
Common property, walkways and shopfronts — scoped in writing, scheduled out of hours, done the same way every visit.