FreshDuctWhy Do Gutters Get Black Streaks on the Outside, and How Do You Clean Them Without Damage?
Stand across the street from almost any Melbourne house that has been through a wet winter and look at the gutters. On a good number of them you will see dark vertical lines running down the outside face, sometimes faint, sometimes dense enough to look like a pattern. They are most obvious on light-coloured gutters, […]
Mould on the Bathroom Ceiling: Condensation or a Leak? How to Tell in a Melbourne House
Late September is when a lot of Melbourne households take a proper look at the bathroom ceiling for the first time since autumn. The heating is winding down, the light is better, and the black spots that crept in over winter are suddenly obvious above the shower. The first question most people ask is how […]
Why Is My Split System Leaking Water Inside? The First-Warm-Day Drip in a Melbourne Spring
It is one of the more reliable calls of a Melbourne spring. The split system ran all winter without a drop, the first genuinely warm afternoon arrives, someone switches it to cool, and within the hour there is water running down the wall under the indoor unit or dripping onto the carpet. The unit has […]
Why Dryer Vent Cleaners Recommend a Spring Clean Out
As spring sets in across Melbourne, we’re all ready to air things out a bit. It’s the season when people start throwing open windows, clearing cupboards, and…
Do Gutter Guards Mean You Never Clean the Gutters? What Actually Happens on a Melbourne Roof
Gutter guards are one of those things people fit hoping to cross a job off the list for good. The pitch is simple: a mesh over the gutter keeps the leaves out, so the gutter stays clear and nobody has to go up a ladder again. On some Melbourne houses that is close to true. […]
Does Duct Cleaning Help With Hay Fever? What a Ducted System Does With Spring Pollen in Melbourne
Melbourne is a hard place to have hay fever. The grass pollen season runs through spring into early summer, north winds carry pollen in from the pasture country beyond the suburbs, and a warm, windy day in October can be miserable for anyone who reacts to it. Somewhere around now, people who have spent the […]
Evaporative Cooler Pads: Clean or Replace Before Summer? How to Tell in a Melbourne Spring
Somewhere in the last two weeks of September, Melbourne gets its first afternoon that actually feels warm, and evaporative coolers across the city get switched on for the first time since autumn. What comes out of the vents in the first ten minutes tells you a lot about the pads. That is the point to […]
Is Attic Insulation Installation Still Worth It in Springtime?
As we head into early spring in Melbourne, most of us pack the winter heaters away and look forward to longer days and crisp mornings. It’s a season of chang…
Why a Fireplace Smells Worse in Warm Weather, and How to Stop It Before Summer
The fire has been out for weeks. The room still smells of smoke. On the first warm afternoon of spring it is noticeably worse, and it gets worse again on humid days and after rain. Plenty of Melbourne households assume this means something is wrong with the chimney. Usually nothing is broken. The chimney is […]
Does Winter Mould Go Away When the Weather Warms Up? What Happens in a Melbourne House in Spring
Around mid-September the heating in most Melbourne houses goes off for the year, the windows start opening, and the winter mould gets found. Behind the wardrobe. Along the bottom of the bedroom curtain. In the corner of the ceiling above the shower. On the underside of the windowsill in the room that never gets sun. […]