How Much Does Exterior Cleaning Cost in Victoria?

Cleaning the whole outside of a Victoria home costs about $1,730 for a 1,500 sq ft single-storey up to about $3,600 for a 3,500 sq ft two-storey at Shine Pros, adding up gutters, roof, windows, house wash and hard surfaces at published prices. Exterior cleaning means everything on the outside of the house: the roof, gutters, siding, windows and the concrete around it.

Most people don’t need all five at once. The useful part is knowing what each piece costs, which one drives the total, and which ones repeat every year.

What does whole-exterior cleaning cost in Victoria?

A full exterior clean in Victoria is the sum of five services, each priced on its own. Shine Pros publishes every one of them, and you get an exact number for your home before work starts.

The small-home total assumes a light roof, exterior windows only and one hard surface. Inside-and-out windows on a 1,500 sq ft home run about $400 instead of $204. A heavily mossed roof on the bigger house adds about $800.

What does exterior cleaning include?

Exterior cleaning covers five jobs, and each one has its own cost breakdown:

• Gutters and downspouts cleared and flushed, debris hauled away. See gutter cleaning cost in Victoria.
• Roof moss removed and treated with a soft wash, never high pressure on shingles. See roof cleaning cost in Victoria.
• Windows washed with water that’s tested for minerals first. See window cleaning cost in Victoria.
• Siding, soffits and trim soft washed at low pressure. See house washing cost in Victoria.
• Driveways, walkways, patios and decks pressure washed. See pressure washing cost in Victoria.

Interior cleaning isn’t part of it. Victoria searches for “house cleaning” often mean a maid service, which is priced by the hour and has nothing to do with the outside of the house.

Which part of exterior cleaning costs the most?

The roof is usually the biggest line on the bill. A 2,000 sq ft roof runs about $626 with light moss and around $1,000 with heavy moss, and very large heavy jobs can reach about $3,000.

The price reflects the work. An average Victoria roof gives up 20 to 40 kg of moss, and the Shine Pros record is about 100 kg off a roof of only about 2,500 sq ft. That’s hours of labour at height, treatment applied on a pitch, clean-up so no moss is left in garden beds, and dump runs. Low roof quotes often come from crews who scrape with metal brushes and skip fall protection. Shine Pros backs roof cleaning with a two-year moss-free guarantee.

What order should exterior cleaning be done in?

Clean from the top down: roof first, then gutters, then the walls, then the ground, then the glass. Each step drops dirt onto the next, so working in any other order means paying to clean something twice.

1. Roof. Moss comes off and a lot of it lands in the gutters.
2. Gutters. Cleared after the roof, so they catch everything that came down.
3. House wash. Siding is soft washed once nothing is left to drip onto it.
4. Hard surfaces. The driveway and patio are washed after runoff from above.
5. Windows. Done last, so no spray or runoff lands on clean glass.

This is the main reason to book the whole exterior with one company in one visit. Split across different crews, the windows often get done before the roof.

Is exterior cleaning worth it before selling a Victoria home?

Yes, for most homes that have gone a few years without it. Buyers and inspectors notice moss on a roof, plants in gutters and green on siding, and they read it as neglect.

One Brentwood Bay home had ferns growing out of its gutters. Before the owners listed it, Shine Pros cleaned the roof, gutters, windows and exterior. In Alex’s words, it looked like a totally new house.

How often does each part need cleaning?

The five services don’t run on the same schedule, which is why an annual plan is cheaper than a full clean every year. A typical Victoria cycle looks like this:

• Gutters: every year, usually after the leaves drop in fall. An average set holds 20 to 30 kg of debris.
• Windows: every year. One James Bay heritage home, three storeys with a lookout, has had its windows cleaned every year since Shine Pros started.
• House wash: every year or two, sooner on shaded, north-facing walls.
• Roof: every few years, covered in between by the two-year moss-free guarantee.
• Hard surfaces: spring, once the wet season eases.

Many Shine Pros customers book gutters and windows together each year and add the roof or house wash when it’s due.

Should you clean the outside of your house yourself?

Ground-level jobs like rinsing a patio are fine to try. Anything on a ladder is where people get hurt. One Shine Pros customer, unhappy with the mess a previous company left, decided to clean her own gutters. She fell off the ladder and broke her back.

Shine Pros uses ladder standoffs, which hold the ladder off the gutters and siding. They protect the house and make the work safer for the crew. They also carry $3 million in liability coverage and are in good standing with WorkSafe BC.

Who does the work?

Shine Pros is Alex and Emma, a husband-and-wife team based in Greater Victoria. The person who quotes your home is the person who cleans it. They’ve cleaned more than 400 homes since August 2022, from James Bay and Oak Bay to Saanich, Cordova Bay and Langford.

Every job ends with a walk-around. Windows carry a 30-day streak-free guarantee, and if a spot is missed they come back and fix it at no charge. Driveways and patios round out all our Victoria exterior cleaning, starting at a $225 minimum.

Common questions about exterior cleaning cost in Victoria

Getting a price for your home

A full exterior clean in Victoria runs about $1,730 to $3,600 depending on size, storeys and how much moss is on the roof, and the pieces can be booked one at a time. Start with the part that’s due, often the gutters or the walls. For siding, soffits and trim, see the Shine Pros house washing service in Victoria, and for the rest, gutter cleaning, roof cleaning and window cleaning in Victoria.