Pressure Washing In Melbourne

Pressure washing is quoted by measured square metre for hard surfaces, so the price depends on how much area there is, how heavy the growth is, and how much of it a surface cleaner can run across versus how much has to be detailed by hand. A wide open concrete driveway is the cheapest work per square metre; narrow paths, steps, courtyards and awkward corners cost more because they are slower. Stains such as oil, rust, paint and tyre rubber are priced separately because each needs its own chemical and dwell time. Send photos and rough dimensions to 0430 392 100 and you get a written figure before anyone turns up, with no charge for the quote.

Not if the pressure is matched to the surface, and that is exactly why the two are treated differently. Sound concrete, exposed aggregate and paving will take a commercial machine through a rotary surface cleaner, which cleans in even overlapping passes rather than leaving the stripes a hand-held wand leaves. Render, paint and cladding are never blasted; they get a low-pressure soft wash where the chemistry does the work and the rinse happens at close to garden-hose pressure. If a surface is already failing, with flaking paint, spalling concrete or crumbling mortar, we tell you before we start rather than after, because water will find any weakness that is already there.

A standard single driveway and front path is usually a two to three hour job including pre-treatment and dwell time. A full house wash with driveway, paths and patio typically runs most of a day. Heavily grown surfaces take longer, because the pre-treatment has to sit long enough to kill the lichen at the root rather than just wet it, and rushing that stage is why some cleans do not last. Multi-service bookings, say a driveway with gutters and windows, are scheduled as a full day so nothing is hurried. We give you a time window when the job is booked and tell you if weather is going to move it.

Most exterior cleaning jobs draw water from an outside tap on the property, and standard mains pressure is enough because the machine does the pressurising. If your job has particular constraints, water restrictions, tank supply, a commercial site or no accessible tap, tell us at quoting stage and we will confirm what is needed for your site before the booking is made rather than discovering it on the day. Power requirements are the same story: some equipment is petrol driven and self-contained, some is not. Call 0430 392 100 and we will give you a straight answer for your property.

Across Frankston and the Peninsula, most driveways and paths want a clean every 12 to 24 months, and shade is the deciding factor rather than the calendar. A north-facing driveway in full sun can stretch to two years easily; a south-side path under tea tree or eucalypt canopy often needs it annually because it never fully dries out. Patios and alfresco areas usually follow the same rhythm as the paths around them. Leaving it too long is not just cosmetic, because a film of algae on smooth concrete becomes genuinely slippery through a wet Melbourne winter and is a common cause of falls. Regular cleaning is also cheaper per visit than letting five years build up.

They are the same trade and the same job, and the two terms are used interchangeably around Melbourne, so whichever one you searched for, you are in the right place. Some people say pressure cleaning, some say pressure washing, some say high pressure cleaning, and a few say water blasting. TopTier covers all of it: driveways, paths, patios, walls, fences, retaining walls, shed slabs and pool surrounds, plus the low-pressure soft washing that render, roofs and timber need instead. If your enquiry is really about the house itself rather than the hard surfaces, the house washing page covers that method in detail. Call 0430 392 100 either way.