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Tri-CitiesExterior Cleaning in Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam & Port Moody

Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody — hillside subdivision on one side, river and inlet flats on the other.

In the Area

Three Cities, And A Lot Of Gradient

The Tri-Cities are three municipalities with one thing in common: gradient. Burke Mountain, Westwood Plateau and Heritage Mountain are hillside subdivision built into second-growth forest, so driveways are steep, lots are shaded, and hard surfaces stay damp long enough to grow moss down the north side of the house. At the bottom of the hill, Port Coquitlam's river flats and Port Moody's inlet edge are flatter, older and closer to water.

Most of the newer housing up the slopes is strata — townhouse complexes with shared driveways, visitor bays and long common-area gutter runs — and most of it wants the same list every spring: moss off the hard surfaces, gutters cleared before the wet, siding soft-washed where the canopy overhangs it. The plateaus also sit high enough to hold snow after the valley floor has turned back to rain, which is the single most useful thing to know when a council is setting a winter schedule up there.

What we plan for here

  • Steep, shaded hillside lots — moss on the north side as standard
  • Plateau strata: shared driveways, visitor bays, long gutter runs
  • Burke Mountain and Westwood hold snow the flats have lost

On the Map

Where This Sits, And What Is Around It

Booked and loaded from
New Westminster
Where it sits
North of the Fraser — east
The Fraser River at golden hour, the Port Mann Bridge spanning it between Coquitlam and Surrey, with Burnaby's towers on the skyline beyond.

The Fraser at the Port Mann Bridge

Between Coquitlam and Surrey, Burnaby beyond

Centred on Coquitlam. Port Coquitlam and Port Moody sit either side of it and are covered on the same terms.

In the Community

Off The Clock In Tri-Cities

Not everything the crew does here goes on an invoice. These are the festivals, shorelines and sidewalks we turn out for when the schedule allows.

  • A crowd sitting and standing on the grass of a tree-lined park in front of an outdoor stage on a summer afternoon.

    June

    Golden Spike Days

    Working the litter crew at Rocky Point Park through Port Moody's festival weekend.

  • Volunteers in light-blue shirts bending to pick litter off a sandy shoreline into blue bags, with calm water and trees behind them.

    September

    Shoreline Cleanup in Port Moody

    Part of the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, along the Shoreline Trail at the head of the inlet.

  • A worker in a hi-vis vest running a leaf blower across a lawn thick with fallen autumn leaves beside a large tree.

    November

    Leaves in Coquitlam

    Clearing autumn leaves off walks and yards for Coquitlam neighbours who need a hand.

Running a clean-up or a community event in Tri-Cities? Tell Us About It

Photographs are illustrative.

A frameless glass balustrade curving along a paved terrace, the panels clean enough to read the stone paving and the planted bank straight through them.

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Where we work

Based in New Westminster, serving Greater Vancouver.

Downtown New Westminster from above the Fraser River: a work barge moored under the SkyBridge, log booms on the water, and the city's towers rising behind the rail line and Front Street.

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Common Questions

Questions We Get Asked In Tri-Cities

The things people actually ask before booking here, answered the way we would answer them on the phone. If yours is not on the list, call — you will get a straight answer from someone who does the work.

  • Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody — all three, priced the same way. Anmore sits immediately above Port Moody and has a page of its own because the properties there are a different kind of work, but it is the same crew and the same service area.

  • Yes, and a shaded slope is one of the more worthwhile surfaces to do, because moss on a gradient is a slip risk as much as it is a stain. The surface is tested before we settle on a pressure, adjacent planting is protected as routine, and run-off is directed away from where it would do harm — which on a hillside lot means working out where downhill actually goes before starting rather than after.

  • Yes, and the plateau complexes are a large part of our Tri-Cities work. It runs as an annual agreement with a written scope, frequency stepped by season and a named schedule day, and insurance documentation goes to the council or manager on request. Common-area driveways, visitor parking, gutter runs and shaded siding are the usual list.

  • It genuinely is. Burke Mountain and Westwood Plateau will be holding snow while Port Coquitlam has gone back to rain, so a winter service set up for the bottom of the hill can be the wrong plan at the top of it. Winter work is arranged before the season — surfaces, route, trigger depth and where the snow gets stockpiled agreed in advance — rather than improvised on the first cold morning.

  • Ahead of the season rather than into it. Moss on hard surfaces here is an annual job on most shaded lots, and the properties that book early get the choice of dates. On roofs the answer is different: it comes off at low pressure with a treatment that kills the root, never with a pressure washer, and a preventative treatment afterwards is what slows the regrowth.