Big sites go green too.
Townhouse complexes, apartment blocks, shops and offices across Horowhenua and the Kāpiti Coast. We look over the whole site first, then put it all on one written quote your committee can actually read.
For buildings with more than one front door.
Body corporates
The roof and cladding usually fall to the body corporate, not the individual owners. You get one written quote for the whole site, ready to put in front of the committee.
Property managers
One point of contact and one written quote for the site, not a pile of separate ones. Resident notices and parking get planned with you before anyone turns up.
Townhouse complexes
Long rows of units off one shared driveway. We plan the work block by block, around the cars.
Apartment blocks
Taller walls mean the method matters. We'll tell you straight how each side gets reached safely.
Shops, offices and commercial buildings
Green cladding and a mossy carpark don't do a business any favours. We'll work around your trading hours where we can. Confirm: can you do early starts or weekends for retail sites?
Got a complex of 70-plus townhouses that all need doing?
We'll plan it with you. A job that size gets scoped properly, block by block, before anyone puts a price on it.
Everything we do, across the whole site.
The same low-pressure approach we use on a house, planned out across every block on the site.
House Wash
Low-pressure soft washing for the outside of every unit. We treat the mould and algae, then rinse it off without driving water in behind the cladding.
Roof Treatment
Moss and lichen treated at low pressure across every roof on the site. The growth dies back and weathers off over the following months, so don't expect it brand new the same afternoon.
Gutter Clean
Leaves and gunk out of the gutters, and the downpipes checked to make sure they're flowing. Some units rented out? The gutter page has the Healthy Homes detail.
Surfaces
The shared ground, cleaned with the right pressure for each surface. Moss on a path in winter is a slip waiting to happen.
It might already be in the budget.
Under the Unit Titles Act, the body corporate has to repair and maintain the common property and any building elements that serve more than one unit. In practice that often takes in the roof and cladding, which is exactly what we wash.
Body corporates also have to keep a long-term maintenance plan covering at least 10 years, or 30 years for complexes of 10 or more units. That plan sets the levy for the long-term maintenance fund, and exterior washing often sits in it next to repainting and roof work.
So a wash doesn't have to land as a surprise bill. Get a written quote and check it against the plan. If the numbers line up, it can go in on a cycle that suits the building. Confirm: do you offer scheduled repeat visits or a maintenance agreement for complexes?
Sources: Unit Titles Act 2010, section 138 and McCaw Lewis on long-term maintenance plans
Slide across the block.
Placeholder: on your first multi-unit job, shoot one block from the same spot before and after (with the committee's OK), and they drop in here.
Planned before anyone unrolls a hose.
Send us the basics You
Unit count, storeys, roughly how old the buildings are and what they're clad in. Photos or site plans help heaps, and so does a heads-up on the trouble spots.
Site walk
We'd rather see it than guess. We walk the site with your manager or committee contact, or work from plans if that suits, and note access, parking, overhead lines and anything fragile.
Confirm: is a site visit standard for every big job?
One written quote
The whole site on one written quote. What's being washed, how, what's left out and when we'd like to do it. Easy to table at a committee meeting.
Residents get notice
We agree a notice period with you, so residents know when we're coming and when to move cars and bring the washing in.
Confirm: the notice period you offer, and whether you write the notice for the manager to send.
Staged around people
Big sites get done in stages, block by block, planned around parking and access so the complex can carry on around us. Drains get protected before any wash starts.
Wrap-up
A walk round at the end to check for missed spots before we call it done.
Confirm: do you send a wrap-up report with before and after photos for the committee's records?
Wash water stays out of the drains.
Stormwater drains are for rain. Greater Wellington Regional Council's guidance is that only rainwater should go into them, and that detergent in wash water is toxic to aquatic life.
A complex has drains everywhere, down every shared driveway and across the carparks. So before any wash starts, the drains near the work get blocked off or the runoff gets steered onto lawn or unsealed ground, instead of being left to run to the kerb. Confirm: how you protect drains on site, for example drain covers or bungs, or diverting runoff to lawn.
Source: Auckland Council, stormwater risks, requirements and responsibilities
Paperwork you can ask us for.
Body corporates and property managers usually want a few documents sorted before anyone sets up on their site. Fair enough. Here's what tends to come up, so you know what to ask for when you get a quote.
There's a good reason for it. When a manager brings in a contractor, both businesses carry health and safety duties for the same work, and WorkSafe expects them to consult, cooperate and coordinate with each other. Neither side can contract its duties away.
Site-specific safety plan
The usual way to write down how everyone on site will work safely around each other. Managers often want one before work starts on a multi-unit job.
Confirm: will you supply one for every commercial job, or only on request?
Public liability insurance
It isn't a legal must-have for cleaners in New Zealand, but plenty of body corporates and managers make a current certificate of currency a condition of the job.
Confirm: only once cover is in place, name the insurer and offer the certificate. No cover amount until it's real.
SiteWise prequalification
Site Safe's contractor prequalification. Health and safety practitioners assess a contractor's answers and give a percentage score that clients can look up.
Confirm: not registered yet. Update this card if and when you are.
Tōtika prequalification
A cross-industry scheme run by CHASNZ. A contractor gets assessed once and can show that one result to many clients, instead of filling in a new form for each.
Confirm: not registered yet. Update this card if and when you are.
Working-at-height plan
WorkSafe's guidance is to manage any potential fall of more than a metre with physical controls, not just care. A hired elevating work platform needs a current inspection certificate and a trained operator.
Confirm: what you can reach from the ground, and when you'd hire a platform.
A record of the wash
Resene recommends washing painted exteriors every year. Keeping a dated record of each wash is good practice too, and can help if you ever need to make a paint warranty claim. Check your own paint's terms.
Confirm: will you supply a dated job record with photos for the committee's files?
Sources: WorkSafe, PCBUs working together, Safeguard on site-specific safety plans, body corporate cleaning contracts guide, SiteWise, Tōtika, WorkSafe on working at height and elevating work platforms and Resene
Questions committees ask.
Can you take on a complex of 70-plus townhouses?
How do you price a big site?
Who do you deal with, the committee or every owner?
Do you have public liability insurance?
Are you SiteWise or Tōtika prequalified?
Will the job need a cherry picker or scaffolding?
Our buildings are older. Does that change anything?
Do you do the windows too?
Let's get your house juicy.
Tell us where you are and what needs a wash. We'll come back to you with a price.
Rather talk? Call 021 000 0000 or email hello@juicyhousewash.co.nz.
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