Service area · Burnaby
Pressure washing & soft wash in Burnaby, BC
Burnaby is a city under a canopy. Second-growth fir and cedar shade Burnaby Heights, Capitol Hill and the Government Road lots, and that shade is exactly what keeps north-facing roofs mossy and downspouts packed with needle. Gutter clearing and roof moss removal are the headline jobs here, so we run them on a sensible interval to keep them small. Cedar siding gets a gentle soft-wash, the concrete gets the pressure. Quoted in English or Mandarin.
Neighbourhoods
From Burnaby Heights to Buckingham
We work most weeks across the north slope: Burnaby Heights along Hastings, Capitol Hill above it, Westridge looking down into Burrard Inlet. The large-lot zone runs through Government Road and the Stoney Creek edge, where detached homes sit on quarter-acre plots and the driveways are long enough to plan. Mid-Burnaby covers Buckingham Heights, Forest Hills, Sullivan Heights, and the established Brentwood-adjacent residential streets. South Burnaby reaches into Big Bend and the river-flat industrial fringe, but our residential work concentrates north of Highway 1.
Climate angle
Tree canopy slows everything down, including the drying
Burnaby's defining climate variable is tree cover. Second-growth Douglas fir, big-leaf maple and western red cedar shade large stretches of Burnaby Heights, Capitol Hill, Government Road and Forest Hills, and that canopy keeps roofs and gutters from drying out the way an open Surrey block does. Moss colonises north-facing shingles within two seasons of a clean. Needle drop fills gutters faster than owners expect; we routinely pull a 3-cm bed of debris out of downspouts that were "just cleaned last spring."
Property mix
Mid-century detached on big lots, with later rebuilds in pockets
Burnaby's detached stock is heavy on mid-century split-level and rancher on the north slope, with rebuilds creeping up through the 1990s and 2000s on the same lots. Cedar siding remains visible on Capitol Hill and Government Road originals; Hardie board on the post-2000 rebuilds in Burnaby Heights and Westridge; stucco on the 1980s era in Forest Hills. Roofs run asphalt shingle 15-to-25 years for most of the city, with cedar shake holdouts on a handful of Government Road and Buckingham estates. Townhouse strata are concentrated near Lougheed and Brentwood, but the residential focus stays the detached blocks.
What we clean in Burnaby
Our full Greater Vancouver service kit, applied locally
We bring the full kit to Burnaby: roof cleaning and moss removal, house soft washing, gutter cleaning, driveway and concrete cleaning, window cleaning, and commercial and strata work. Gutter clearing is the most-requested service across the tree-canopy blocks; roof moss removal is a close second. Driveway restoration matches the long lots on Government Road and Cliff Ave well. Cedar siding gets a cedar-safe soft-wash; high-pressure stays on the concrete.
English & 中文
Quoted in the language you prefer
Burnaby's Chinese-speaking community is the second largest in Greater Vancouver after Richmond, with strong clusters in Brentwood, Crystal Mall, Burnaby Heights along Hastings, and around the SFU corridor. The detached owners we serve in Burnaby Heights, Capitol Hill, Forest Hills and Government Road frequently prefer to have the technical discussion in Mandarin: which roof cleaner is safe for our shingles, when to schedule around the rain, how the strata invoice splits across units. Estimates, walkthroughs and invoices happen in 中文 or English, your choice.
Recent work
Gutter clean-out
Burnaby questions
Three questions we hear from Burnaby owners
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How often do Capitol Hill gutters need clearing?
Twice a year for most of the hill: a deep clear in early November once the big-leaf maples have dropped, and a touch-up clear in March after the Douglas-fir needles finish. North-slope homes with overhanging conifers sometimes need a third visit in midsummer. The hill's tree cover is one of the densest in Greater Vancouver, and downspouts pack faster than owners expect.
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Will the moss come back faster on a north-facing Burnaby roof?
Yes, and that is true of any north-facing roof in the Pacific Northwest. Burnaby's tree-canopy shading slows roof-surface drying after rain, which is exactly the condition moss spores need. A north-slope roof in Burnaby Heights or Westridge typically needs cleaning every 2 to 3 years; a sun-exposed south slope on the same block can stretch to 5 years between visits.
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Do you take small acreage jobs around Government Road?
Yes. Large-lot detached homes on Government Road and Cliff Ave are some of our favourite work: long driveways with restoration potential, oversized roofs, and gutters that haven't been cleared in too long. We bring the right ladder for the height and the right surface cleaner for the driveway length. Quoted as a single property visit, not by the hour.