Founding Streets open in Tamarama 2026
Sandstone cleaning for Tamarama's cliffside homes above the beach. Heritage block soft washed so the growth lifts and the stone stays exactly where it was.
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Sandstone cleaning in Tamarama is a job about salt before anything else. The cliffside homes and apartments here wrap around the smallest, most exposed beach in the east, and the ocean works on three sides of the gully. Spray lands on the old block walls and terracing, dries, and crystallises inside the stone. Add the lichen that loves a damp south face and you get the mottled black-and-orange crust that spreads down heritage sandstone above Tama.
We soft wash it. A hire-shop pressure gun scours the soft face off hundred-year-old block and leaves it pitted and pale, and around here that damage never grows back. Low pressure and the right treatment lift the lichen and draw the salt out without scarring the surface, so the stone keeps its skin and its colour. Every wall is photographed against the checklist when we finish.
If your place sits up off Gaerloch Ave or Fletcher St, the exposure is doing this to your stone right now. Put your address into the instant quote and a firm, bookable price comes back in about 60 seconds. It holds unless the place is materially different.
Every block gets read before it gets touched. Here is the finish it is done to, surface by surface.
Soft washed at low pressure. Black lichen and salt lifted, the natural honey colour back, no blast scarring.
Treated at the root and drawn out over days, not scrubbed off the top. It does not grow straight back.
The white efflorescence eased off the face and the stone left open to breathe, never sealed shut over damp.
Worked gently around, old lime pointing left intact. Loose or failing joints flagged in the condition report, not force washed.
Trafficked sandstone cleaned back to grip and colour, edges and nosings done by hand where the machine cannot reach.
Copings, balusters and any carved faces cleaned by hand at close range so the crisp lines stay crisp.
A breathable seal only, applied once the stone is fully dry. It sheds salt and water and still lets the block breathe.
Job-close photos against the checklist. Anything past maintenance is named, marked, and referred to a specialist partner.
Meet Jake. He runs Schmick jobs in Tamarama, and the same person comes back each visit — no rotating crew, no call-centre between you and the work.
Booking a one-off? A couple of cleans a year adds up. The Schmick Plan folds the whole exterior into one monthly price and keeps it handled, so you never think about it again.
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“Couldn’t fault them”
Had the windows and the driveway done. Turned up right on 8, finished before lunch, and the driveway honestly looks brand new. Same guy came back for the gutters last month and remembered our dog’s name. Couldn’t fault them.
“Should’ve done it years ago”
They sent me photos of what came out of our gutters. Revolting. Glad it’s gone. Lovely guys too.
“Came out after the storm”
We’re on their monthly plan. After that big blow in June they were out two days later and sorted everything without us having to chase. Worth it for that alone.
“Honest, which is rare”
Our sandstone wall had gone black and I’d assumed it was ruined. It’s come up beautifully. There was one damp patch he said needed a stone specialist rather than pretending he could fix it, which I appreciated. On time, tidy, very fair on price.
“Neighbours all asked who did it”
Windows are unreal. Two of the neighbours came over to ask who did them before the van had even left the street. Booking was easy and they text you when they’re on the way.
“10/10”
Got the whole outside done before we hosted Christmas. Mum asked if we’d had the place repainted. Showed up when they said, price was exactly what they quoted.
Yes. The cliffside streets above Tama are regular ground for us, Gaerloch Ave and Fletcher St included. Heritage block taking the full brunt of the ocean is exactly the job this service exists for.
Put your address into the instant quote and a firm, bookable price comes back in about 60 seconds. Nobody comes out to look first, and the price holds unless the place turns out materially different to what you told us.
Salt and lichen, driven by full ocean exposure on three sides of the beach. Airborne spray settles into the stone and the damp faces grow lichen on top of it. A soft wash roughly every year or two stays ahead of it without ever touching the stone with high pressure.
One crew, one visit. Book a single job or hand us the whole exterior.
Inside and out, tracks and screens. The squeegee line you can see from the street.
Render, brick and weatherboard brought back without blasting a thing. Ten years of grey, gone by lunch.
Cleared, flushed and photographed. The before you never wanted to see, and the after you will.
Pressure cleaned back to the day they were poured. Sealing available.
A film of grime is a tax on every panel. We take it off, quarterly, and your yield thanks you.
Moss, lichen and mould lifted off tiles and Colorbond. Soft washed, never blasted.
Timber, Colorbond and rendered fences washed back. The street side done first.
Tell us the address and what the street sees. The same person who would do the job gets back to you, not a call-centre.