"I do get them with the wife ringing, saying 'I'm not letting him back up there'," Mr Rau said.
"A lot of guys have done it themselves for years and they sort of get to that age where they probably shouldn't but they don't realise it.
"Sometimes it takes the wife to say, 'well, look, you're not going up there any more'."
Mr Rau said his work included house washing, roof repairs, spouting repairs and replacement. He also did repairs around the house and hauled rubbish away.
Spotless Spouting could inspect and take photos of spouting and roofs with an extended pole.
The company also had safety-approved attachments for a long ladder as well as safety-harness equipment, said Mr Rau.
Local handyman Brian Frentz suggested people either leave tough maintenance jobs to professionals who had health and safety regimes in place or get family members to help.
He also recommended those who could not do their own work around the home to look at services the Government provided.
ACC senior media adviser Stephanie Melville said ACC sourced the data by searching accident descriptions for the key words. The level of detail provided for accident descriptions could vary greatly and there were likely to be more related claims which had not been captured, she said.
The most common spring-cleaning injuries were related to loss of balance and the most common injury was soft-tissue damage.
"In terms of staying injury-free when spring cleaning, I personally would recommend paying a team of professionals to do it for you, while you get together with friends and enjoy a long overdue lunch with maybe a little shoe shopping afterwards, followed by wine and nibbles to wrap up the afternoon.
"This way the only thing that'll hurt is getting the credit-card bill."
Ms Melville said about 700,000 injuries happened in or around the home each year, well over a third of the roughly 1.7 million claims ACC received each year.