Soft washing and roof cleaning in Koolewong

What do Koolewong's hillside homes above Brisbane Water need?

The locality was first called Glenrock and took the name Koolewong from the NSW Railways; the line through it opened in 1888, though the station only opened in 1920. Most of the suburb sits on a hill looking over the water, flat to the south-east and hilly to the north-west, and the Koolewong Flora Reserve, set aside in January 2021, covers 1,874 hectares around it.

Separate houses made up 91.0% of occupied homes in 2021. Homes on a bushy hillside face the weather and the tree litter at once: Monier, the tile maker, warns that roofs under trees show dirt sooner and that pressure washers can damage tiles, so the roofs here suit a soft wash for tiled and Colorbond roofs, and walls a house soft wash.

Key figures

1888

the railway through Koolewong opens

1,874 ha

Koolewong Flora Reserve, set aside in 2021

91.0%

of occupied dwellings were separate houses

Sources

• Wikipedia, Koolewong
• ABS 2021 Census QuickStats, Koolewong
• Monier (CSR), Roof Cleaning and Maintenance
• NSW Spatial Services, Administrative Boundaries (postcode, council, distance, neighbours)