Porirua homes up close, for house cleaners
Damp is above the national rate
At the 2023 Census, 4.2% of Porirua City dwellings were always damp and 18.4% sometimes, against 2.3% and 15.8% nationally. Mould bigger than an A4 sheet was always there in 5.4% of homes and sometimes in 12.5%, the highest of the Wellington-area figures we've checked.
Planned as a state housing city
In the late 1940s planners pictured Porirua as a satellite city of Wellington with state housing. Tītahi Bay, Elsdon and the suburbs east of State Highway 59 grew through the 1950s and 1960s, though state houses are no longer most of the city's homes.
Family-sized houses
Close to half the city's dwellings, 47.6%, had three bedrooms at the 2023 Census, and 28.7% had four, against 24% nationally. Have the bedroom and bathroom count ready, because that's what the quote is built on.
Black bags and two bins
Porirua City Council only takes rubbish in its pre-paid black 60 litre bags, weekly, at the kerb by 8am. Mixed recycling goes in the yellow-lid bin every two weeks and glass in the blue-lid bin every four, so time the clear-out around them.
Coastal streets, streams and trains
WREMO says the city's most crowded areas are coastal, with Porirua Stream and Horokiwi Stream running through. Kāpiti Line stations run from Kenepuru to Pukerua Bay, and State Highway 1 has used Transmission Gully since 7 December 2021.
Leaving a rental or staying put? Porirua cleaning services
In the Porirua City council area, 33% of households didn't own their home at the 2023 Census. Leaving one of those rentals? The end of tenancy clean goes room by room to the reasonably clean and tidy standard. Rubbish removal isn't part of it, so the black bags are yours.
Staying put in a four-bedroom family home? A fortnightly clean holds the line, and a deep clean once a year reaches the bathroom ceiling, the extractor fan covers and the window tracks where damp collects.
Where we'd start: listing mould for Porirua house cleaners
Walk the house before you send the clean and list every mould spot by room. Tenancy Services says white vinegar works on small patches, and a deep or end of tenancy clean can take those on. A patch bigger than you can reach easily, or mould after a flood, is a job for a mould removal specialist first.
