Stop calling around. Start with the comparison.
Every TrustaLocal guide answers three questions about a home service: which service model fits your job, what it should cost, and who to contact first. No directory trawling, no ten phone calls.
Pick the service model
Full-service, DIY, or specialist? Each guide opens with the decision that actually changes your cost and effort.
Check the price range
Working ranges from published provider pricing and NZ cost guides, labelled by source, not invented averages.
Call a shortlist, not a directory
Providers grouped by the job they solve best, with contact details and the questions to ask before booking.
Choose your city
Guides are built city by city, because providers, prices and council rules are local. Three cities live now, eight categories each.
Wellington
Rubbish removal, lawn mowing, house washing, gutter cleaning, window cleaning, carpet cleaning, house cleaning and pest control, with Wellington council rules and hill-section realities built in.
Browse Wellington guides → 8 guides liveChristchurch
The same eight categories to the same standard, with CCC rules, nor’wester realities, pohutukawa debris and villa box-gutter risks built in.
Browse Christchurch guides → 8 guides liveAuckland
The same eight categories to the same standard, with Auckland Council inorganic collection, leaky-home cladding rules, kikuyu lawns and apartment body-corporate realities built in.
Browse Auckland guides →Or start with the job
Most people search by the job, not the city. Pick a category, then your city.
Rubbish removalFull-service, skip bins, or the free council routes: the right stream is the biggest cost decision.
Lawn mowing & garden maintenanceRegular runs vs one-off cleanups vs hourly garden work, priced per visit.
Exterior house washingSoft wash vs water blasting, and the cladding types where high pressure is a genuine risk.
Gutter cleaningOne-off vs regular plans, guard costs by the metre, and when sagging spouting is a repair job.
Window cleaningPackage tiers, pure-water pole for two storeys, and apartment body-corporate rules.
Carpet cleaningSteam vs low-moisture, and what the law actually requires at end-of-lease.
House cleaningRegular vs deep vs bond cleans, and why the re-clean guarantee beats the lowest price.
Pest controlOne-off vs maintenance plans by pest type, and when DIY stops working.
Why trust this site
Independent by design
Providers cannot pay for placement, rankings, or a better write-up. Shortlists are built from public information, not who pays us.
Sources labelled
Every price range names where it came from: published provider pricing, NZ cost guides, or council rules. Unknown means unknown; we say so.
Built to be corrected
Local data goes stale. If something on a page is wrong or outdated, tell us and we fix it. Accuracy beats looking complete.
Home services are one of the last markets where you still have to ring five providers to learn the going rate. TrustaLocal compresses that research into one page per service, per city (live in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland), expanding across New Zealand.