For builders & contractors

New Home Brick Cleaning

Handover dates do not move because the brick cleaner did not turn up. We schedule around your programme, clean to the standard the brick manufacturer requires, and invoice on terms that work for repeat volume.

Think Brick accredited
Fully insured
20+ years experience

Think Brick accredited

Fully insured

20+ years experience

Illawarra to the Highlands

Quick answer

Why do builders need an accredited brick cleaner?

Australian brick manufacturers extend product warranty on the condition that cleaning is carried out correctly, and Think Brick Australia accreditation is the recognised evidence of that. An unaccredited clean that causes acid burn, vanadium staining or joint erosion is generally not a warranty claim against the brick — it becomes the builder’s defect to rectify before handover.

At a glance

Accreditation: Think Brick Australia
Insurance: Public liability, certificates supplied
Typical window: 7–14 days after brickwork completion
Pricing: Per home or per square, volume rates

The risk you are actually managing

Brick cleaning is one of the cheapest line items on a house and one of the most expensive to get wrong. A burned elevation cannot be patched — it has to be chemically remediated across the whole wall so the finish stays even, and on a bad one the only honest answer is render or replacement.

The other exposure is timing. Cleaning too early rakes out green mortar joints. Leaving it until the scaffold comes down and the landscaping is in means working around finished surfaces at twice the care and half the speed.

How we work with builders

Most of our builder work runs on a standing arrangement: we get the programme, we book in against brickwork completion, and we clean without needing to be chased. Site supervisors get a direct mobile, not a call centre.

Priced per home or per square, with volume rates for ongoing work rather than one-off quoting.
Certificates of currency and accreditation supplied up front for your compliance file.
Elevations photographed on completion, so there is a dated record of the state we left them in.
Defect and PCI callbacks handled promptly — including marks that appeared after other trades.
Works across the Shoalhaven, Illawarra and Southern Highlands growth corridors: Calderwood, Tullimbar, Shell Cove, Renwick, Worrigee and the Nowra estates.

Beyond the clean

We also handle the problems that surface between brickwork and handover — efflorescence blooming on a new elevation, vanadium coming through on cream brick, rust bleeding from tie wire or reo, mortar dropped down a completed wall by a later trade, and paint or render overspray.

Coverage

Where we do new homes & builders

Illawarra

Wollongong · Shellharbour · Albion Park · Dapto · Kiama · Shell Cove

Shoalhaven

Nowra · Bomaderry · Vincentia · Huskisson · Berry · Culburra Beach · Ulladulla

Southern Highlands

Bowral · Mittagong · Moss Vale · Bundanoon

Sutherland Shire

Helensburgh · Engadine · Sutherland · Cronulla

Based at Warilla. Everything from Helensburgh to Ulladulla and inland to the Southern Highlands is inside our normal working area.

FAQ

New Homes & Builders — questions we get asked

Do you work to a builder’s programme?

Yes. Give us the brickwork completion dates and we book against them. For builders running multiple sites we work off a rolling schedule so cleaning happens in the right window without anyone having to phone us each time.

What paperwork can you supply?

Think Brick accreditation, certificate of currency for public liability, SWMS and site-specific documentation on request, and dated completion photography of each elevation.

Can you clean occupied or partly finished sites?

Yes, with appropriate protection. Once windows, garage doors, driveways and landscaping are in, the job takes longer and costs more, which is the argument for cleaning in the correct window.

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Need new homes & builders quoted?

Call 0448 882 780 or send photos through the quote form. We will tell you what the job needs and what it will cost, including when the honest answer is that you do not need us.

0448 882 780 Free quote