Power Washing in Nanoose Bay, BC
Highway 19A runs south-east straight through Nanoose Bay as a four-lane divided arterial with five sets of lights and a string of at-grade intersections. Most of this coast has its through traffic routed around it. Here it goes past the driveways.
What Nanoose Bay Does to Your Property
The Arterial Goes Through, Not Around
Parksville and Qualicum Beach are bypassed by the Inland Island Highway, which avoids residential areas along its whole 128-kilometre run. Nanoose Bay is not. Highway 19A carries traffic south-east through the settlement itself, four lanes divided, with five signal lights and many at-grade intersections — which means vehicles stopping, standing and accelerating alongside property rather than a kilometre away from it. That produces the one category of soiling on this coast that is not organic: road film and exhaust deposit, bonded to a surface rather than grown on it. The Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental Test Range has also operated in the bay since 1965, so this is not a purely residential stretch. Heat lifts bonded residue that cold pressure only burnishes in. It does nothing for the algae film on a shaded back patio that a solution and some patience would clear, and paying for it there is money spent on the wrong problem.
- Moorecroft Regional Park, Beachcomber Regional Park and the Qualicum National Wildlife Area all sit inside the area
- 26 km north of Nanaimo and 16 km south of Parksville
- Fairwinds includes a community centre with a salt-water pool, a wellness club, two restaurants and vacation rental suites
Around Nanoose Bay
Landmarks nearby: Brickyard Park · The Qualicum National Wildlife Area · Beachcomber Marina
Nanoose Bay Questions
Yes, and it shows on the glass first. Nanoose Bay has an unusually broken shoreline — Arab Cove, Tyee Cove, Cottam Point and Madrona Point rather than one continuous beach — so how exposed a property is depends on which of those it sits on. Salt-laden air settles on seaward glass and walls and comes back faster than ordinary dirt does, which makes the outside of water-facing windows the surface most worth doing more than once a year. Set back from the water, behind Notch Hill or in among the trees at Red Gap or Beachcomber, that stops being the issue and tree debris takes over instead.
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