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Tough choice, but we had to get the truck out today and head to a commercial job in Richmond, which meant missing the Tasman Mako taking on Southland at Trafalgar Park. Fortunately some of our whanau were able to replace us and represent the Nelson Waterblasting crew at the game. The Mako500 Club gives us…

We have attended hundreds of gutters on homes and businesses in the Nelson, Stoke and Richmond areas. Many of them have had gutter guards (which in itself might be a clue as to whether they are effective) so here’s our well-informed and honest view on what they do and don’t do. Our starting point is…

We are all big rugby fans at Nelson Waterblasting and the first All Blacks match of the year always focuses our attention on the fact that the NPC & FPC season is not too far away. For the third year we will be sponsoring our local Tasman Mako legends through the Mako 500 club. The…

We are now just into our fourth year at Nelson Waterblasting and on a wet and rainy day in the Nelson region we have found some time to get back onto the online world after a bit (a lot !) of a gap. In an ideal world we would be following the advice of modern…

The first thing to say about lichen is that it is an amazing organism and, if it's not eating your roof or latching onto your paths, can be quite beautiful to look at. Here's the scientific bit (gleaned from Wikipedia!). Lichen is a hybrid fungus/algae organism. The growth form most common on our Nelson, Stoke…

We had a couple of long nights in Stoke cleaning the concrete pads outside the entrance, drive through and nursery. Bunnings are one of our regular commercial and industrial cleaning clients and as we are regular visitors as customers it's nice to see the clean front of house when we turn up to buy the…

A house wash today at a beautiful Nelson villa with a wee bit of history. A passing neighbour told us that his great grandfather built the house in the mid to late 19th century. It's always great to have a few minutes to stop and talk to fellow Nelsonians. White weatherboard always comes up a…

A great weekend of rugby, as we took a couple of days off from house washing, gutter cleaning, roof spraying and all the other tasks that take us on our travels round Nelson, Stoke and Richmond. Our focus was on Trafalgar Park as the Mako men took on Canterbury in the second round of the…

Why it pays to get an individual free quote. If you were to look at some of the advertising for getting your house washed you could be forgiven for thinking that Nelson, Stoke and Richmond was made up of a few housing estates with identikit homes. They usually go something like this: Here’s what we…