It's that time of year when the bugs are looking for somewhere warm and dry to lay up for winter.
That's why we're giving away a free exterior pest spray treatment worth up to $200 with every house wash from now until the end of June.
The main hatch of exterior spiders has finished so the whitetails are coming inside to hunt the daddy-longlegs. 
Cockroach fact: an adult cockroach can squeeze through a gap the thickness of four sheets of A4 copier paper. You don't need much of a gap for them to find their way in and start dropping egg cases around your home.
Give us a call on 0800 647 336 to find out about having a lovely clean, bug free house for winter!

House washing and building washing in winter is a special kind of job. Character building is probably the best way or representing the overall vibe.
It's not officially winter yet but this week has been a very accurate preview of how it's likely to look after we pass the starting gun on June the 1st.
Watching one's soapy solution literally freezing to a wall as it's applied at 0600 on a sub-zero morning gives one reason to pause and consider the wisdom of getting up early to go outside and get wet.
But the wonderful outcome of such madness in -3 of frost is that we made a particularly gungey commercial premises look like new again before trading started for the day.
To anyone who has any questions in their mind about washing a house or building in the colder months, please accept my assurance that the cold weather makes not a shred of difference to the efficacy of the process and this week has provided scientific proof of that assertion. Yes, the operator gets cold but that's going to happen anyway! And besides, hot drinks and pies are a cold weather cure all for we hardy souls at GA.
If you're looking at a house or building that needs some help, go ahead and give us a call on 0800 647 336 and we'll put wrongs to right - whatever the weather.

Further disclaimer to previous: Once again I apologise for not waiting for my five year old to get home from school to create the scene for this blog.
​And also, if I'm honest I'll tell you this is a house in the Siberian Taiga and not a commercial premises in Hamilton!

Disclaimer: I should've waited until my 5 year old came home from school to provide a slightly more accurate representation of a house under water...

Hamilton, Auckland and their surrounds are disappearing under a sea of green algae. There are houses that desperately need washing all the way from Orewa to Otorohanga.
It's incredible how quickly it's happened actually - the algae has really taken hold and bloomed just in the last month.
Algae is funny stuff and I won't speculate what's prompted the invasion other than to say something clearly suits it climatically. Much more so than this time last year, that's for sure.
If you have green patches, it's worth washing it away now. My honest advice is to not wait until spring or summer - be rid of it now. Why? I hear you ask: because algae and its good friend mould have a habit of waiting in a nascent form in your cladding and when you suddenly become aware of it visually, you're really just seeing the icing on the cake. Or the tip of the iceberg, if we're to stick with the oceanic analogy.
Algae and mould will wash away really well when they first appear and because we're thorough, we make sure you have no spores remaining that will seek to recolonise your freshly washed home. So in summary, if you wash away the green now, you don't need to worry yourself that it will come back over the course of winter and mar the finish of your home when spring comes.
Algae and mould both like to pretend they're a harmless, sludgy substance that just hang around for a while until they find something better to do with their time, but in reality, they'll both pit your paint if left to proliferate. 
It's so easy to wash it away before it gets traction and now is definitely the right time to do it. 
Wash your house clean of mould and algae. It's a great feeling having a clean house, you're doing your paint a huge favour, and you'll be saved from further appalling pieces of line art from yours truly.
Feel free to give us a call on 0800 647 336 anytime to discuss how.