Updated October 2026
Greenmount is where the Hills start. The Welcome to Perth Hills signs sit on Greenmount Hill and on Kalamunda Road, and Greenmount is named on primary sources among the localities at the western edge of the Darling Scarp. It reads as a Foothills suburb with one foot on the climb.
The housing is mixed in age, with a good share of the district's 1960s and 1970s stock, and the roofs show the usual pattern of cracked original pointing and an eroded tile surface.
We connect you with roof restoration specialists who work the Foothills suburbs below the scarp, where most of the stock is 1960s and 1970s project housing.
What a restoration involves
- Pressure clean to strip moss and the chalky remains of the original tile surface
- Replace cracked or broken tiles, sourced to match the existing profile
- Repoint the ridge and hip capping with modern flexible pointing
- Apply primer and two coats of roof membrane in your chosen colour
On guide pricing only, and from Australian cost guides rather than Perth rates, a full restoration on a typical Hills home usually lands in the thousands. See the cost guide for what moves the number.
Mixed blocks, mixed servicing
Greenmount is one of four Foothills localities the Shire of Mundaring's local planning strategy named as having unsewered residential areas, along with Swan View, Helena Valley and Boya, and the strategy recommended lobbying for reticulated sewerage to be extended to them. So some Greenmount blocks run their own on-site effluent system and some do not, which is a question for your address rather than your suburb.
For the roof work it matters in one practical way: where the downpipes discharge. On a block with leach drains or a secondary treatment system, you do not want a roof's worth of stormwater running over the disposal area.
Frequently asked questions
Is Greenmount hills or plain?
Both, depending on the street. It sits at the foot of the climb and is named on primary sources as a scarp-edge locality, so access varies block by block and the roofer prices what they can see.
What drives the price most on a roof here?
Condition and access, in that order. A sixty-year-old roof with failed pointing and rusted valleys is a bigger job than a tidy 1980s one, and a block that falls away adds set-up time.
Should the gutters be done at the same time?
Worth pricing together, because the access gear is already up. Gutters on an ageing roof are usually the same age as the roof. See gutters and downpipes.