Patios & Driveways - covering Cargreen and the PL12 area

What we see on Cargreen properties

If the patios & driveways at your Cargreen property has started looking tired, you're not alone. Boat owners and second-home owners want a clean that lasts the full season without callbacks. Cargreen sits in Cornwall at PL12, close enough to saltash that we regularly share visits.

Small Tamar-side village with a quay and sailing club north of Saltash, which shapes how patios & driveways on painted lime render and stone and Cornish slate actually plays out around PL12. If you can see Landulph from the end of your road, we cover you.

Callouts get batched into the same run so pricing stays sensible and turnaround stays short. We never sub-contract out — the crew that quotes the job is the crew that does the job. The van carries hot and cold, softwash rig, vac pole and full drain protection so most jobs don't need a return trip. Reviews are on Google, Facebook and Checkatrade — a mix that makes it harder to game the numbers. We're happy to work weekends when the surface actually wants it, especially for driveway seals. Every quote carries a workmanship guarantee — if a finish isn't right, we come back and put it right. Parking is where a lot of jobs go slow, so we ask about it up front rather than turn up and hope. Water usage is metered and quoted realistically — we never charge for water we didn't use. For the odd fourth-storey house we bring a taller pole in from a neighbour's yard, still no scaffold needed. Sub-zero mornings we wait until 10am to start softwash — the biocide simply doesn't work well below freezing. Every softwash job has a pre-clean pH check on the render surface to keep dilution honest. Traffic-film patches on driveways get a hot detergent pre-wash before any surface cleaner touches them. Winter drive seals are cured under a tarp and a heater for the last two hours so overnight rain doesn't spoil the finish. The wall pump gets calibrated at the top of each visit, not once per job — it drifts otherwise. Every re-clean under our guarantee is done inside seven days, no argument about who was right.

Materials & methods we'd use here

Most Cargreen properties we treat have painted lime render and stone walls and a Cornish slate roof. That changes a few of the choices we'd make.

• Method

  Selective biocide pre-treat to kill moss at the root - extra important on moderate estuary village sites - noted at moderate exposure - a booking pattern we've settled into over five seasons.

• Method

  Fan-tip cold rinse on Indian sandstone with the pressure dialled for Cargreen - noted in the Cornwall Council patch - the sort of thing owners notice from the road first.

• Method

  Kiln-dried jointing sand brushed in once the surface is dry on every Cargreen job - noted 5.4 miles from PL3 - handled from a pole not a ladder wherever we can.

• Method

  Pattern-imprinted concrete re-sealed in the same visit - useful on estuary village layouts - noted at roughly 50.451,-4.213 - a job with a proper written scope, no verbal add-ons.

Where it usually starts in Cargreen

• Stripey patches from previous DIY washes - waterside cottages and Victorian villas owners ring us most - at roughly 50.451,-4.213 - worth catching before the next wet stretch.
• Slippery flagstones around the rear of the house on estuary village layouts - on painted lime render and stone - a call we take a lot after autumn leaf-fall.
• Oil staining where cars park on porous block paving across Cargreen - across Cornish slate - a pattern we see through the shoulder seasons.
• Cobbled aprons holding moss in joints all winter on waterside cottages and Victorian villas - on waterside cottages stock - a job that suits softwash first, pressure never.
• Garage threshold paving rocking from sand wash-out across estuary village stock - at moderate exposure - a booking pattern we've settled into over five seasons.

Nearby areas we also cover

Things Cargreen customers ask us first