Services
Pressure washing
Drives, patios, roofs, render and gutters, Brighton & Hove and within 30 miles. Every job has a published from-price, and photos of the finish reach you the same day.
What it costs
Every price below is the starting point. Send photos of the job and the town, and you get a price before we book anything in. Tap a service for the materials it covers and how each one is cleaned.
Driveways Block paving, tarmac, concrete, resin and imprinted concrete. from £120
Block paving
Pre-treated, cleaned with a surface cleaner at full pressure, then kiln-dried sand back in the joints once dry, and a sealer if you want one: re-sanding and sealing is £5/m². Empty joints mean weeds and loose blocks, so we never leave them.
Tarmac
Washed at low pressure with the lance held back. Solvents dissolve tarmac, so oil comes off with a bio cleaner left to work instead.
Imprinted concrete
Surface cleaner at medium pressure, then resealed. The sealer is what brings the colour and shine back.
Resin bound
A fan tip at low pressure, never a close-in jet, which lifts the stones out of the resin.
Plain concrete
The toughest surface of the lot: full pressure, degreaser on oil and tyre marks. Fresh oil comes out; old soaked-in oil lightens rather than disappears, and we say so first.
Patios Sandstone, limestone, slabs, porcelain, granite and brick. from £120
Indian sandstone
Black spot is the usual problem, and it needs the right treatment and time, not more pressure. Turbo nozzles pit the face and acid turns the iron in the stone orange, so neither comes near it.
Limestone
Stone-safe cleaners only. Even mild acid etches limestone and dulls it for good.
Concrete slabs
Surface cleaner at medium to high pressure, degreaser on barbecue fat, gentler on textured faces so the aggregate stays hidden.
Porcelain
Takes a firm clean, and cement haze from laying comes off with the right cleaner. Most porcelain needs no sealing.
Slate paving
Washed low and slow: riven slate flakes under high pressure.
Joints
The gaps between the slabs, where sand or mortar sits and weeds take hold. Re-sanded or re-pointed after the clean, with a treatment that slows the regrowth.
Roofs Concrete and clay tiles, slate and fibre cement. from £400
Concrete tiles
Most houses from the 1950s on. Moss comes off by hand, the roof is swept, then soft washed with a treatment that keeps working for months. Jetting strips the coloured face and the roof grows moss faster, so we never do it.
Clay tiles and pantiles
Hand scraped and soft washed gently. Clay is porous and often only hung on nibs, so nothing is forced.
Natural slate
Soft wash only, worked from ladders and boards, never walked on: slates crack and old nails give way.
Fibre cement
Soft washed. Pressure strips the factory coating off. Pre-2000 corrugated cement roofs can contain asbestos, and we do not clean those.
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After every roof
The gutters are cleared, because that is where the moss ends up, and plants below are rinsed and protected.
Gutters and fascias Cleared inside, washed outside, downpipes checked. from £90
Gutters, inside
Cleared by hand or vacuum, the sludge bagged and taken away, and the downpipes checked so water actually runs.
Fascias, soffits and gutter fronts
Washed back to white with a UPVC cleaner. The black streaks down gutter fronts need their own cleaner and a pad, so they are part of the job, not an extra.
Render and exterior walls Painted and coloured render, pebbledash, brick and flint. from £400
Painted render
Soft washed: the cleaner dwells, then a gentle rinse. A jet lifts the paint and drives water into cracks.
K-Rend and coloured render
Soft wash only, with cleaners the render makers approve. Jetting erodes the face and can void the guarantee.
Pebbledash
Soft washed, because pressure knocks the stones out.
Brick and flint
Brick is washed at low pressure with care on old mortar. Flint walls, everywhere around Brighton, sit in lime mortar that a jet would blow out, so they get the gentlest wash of all.
Decking, fencing and garden walls Timber and composite decking, fences, brick and flint walls. from £90
Timber decking and fences
Low pressure, with the grain, a wood-safe cleaner and then a brightener. Bleach and close-in jets fur the boards, so neither is used.
Composite decking
Cleaned with whatever its maker recommends, at low pressure.
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Garden walls
Brick, flint or rendered, they are treated the same way as the house walls above.
Car parks and forecourts Tarmac and concrete, marked bays, walkways and shop fronts. from £200
Tarmac car parks
A wide surface cleaner at medium pressure covers the ground quickly, with a bio cleaner on oil patches.
Concrete yards and forecourts
Full pressure with a degreaser on oil and diesel.
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Line markings
Washed gently: high pressure close up peels them.
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The wash water
Contained and disposed of properly, never sent down a road gully.
Bin stores Communal stores for blocks and letting agents. from £75
Floors
Loose rubbish cleared, then scraped, degreased and washed.
Walls, doors and bins
Washed low, then the whole store sanitised so the smell goes with the grease.
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The wash water
Contaminated, so it goes to the right drain, never the street. Monthly or quarterly visits suit block managers.
Site clean-down The wash-down after a build, priced from your photos. photo quote
New paving, brick and glass
Debris cleared first, then mortar, cement splashes and site dirt washed off with the right cleaner for each surface: what suits brick would etch new limestone.
Cement slurry
Never washed into a drain, where it sets.
The kit does the work
We bring a petrol pressure washer and a surface cleaner: the rotating head that takes a drive back to one even colour instead of leaving wand stripes. It is the kit the trade uses, and it is the difference between cleaned and hosed down.
Photos of the finish, same day
When the job is done we photograph it and send you the pictures the same day. You see the finish without standing over it, and so does your client if you booked us for one.