Local patios & driveways across Malborough

What's actually different about Malborough

By the time patios & driveways becomes obvious from the road in Malborough, it has usually been quietly building for two seasons. Hilltop village above Salcombe with a landmark church spire, which shapes how patios & driveways on painted render and stone and natural slate actually plays out around TQ7.

Granite, cob and lime-rendered cottages all need handling differently from a modern render. Most weeks we're up and down the A381 between Malborough and the next booking. We batch Malborough bookings with salcombe runs along A381.

Two of us live within twenty minutes of the yard, which is why booking flexibility is easier than customers expect. There's no minimum charge to look at a job — we'll walk around it, quote it and leave the ball with you. Roof harnesses are anchored and inspected before anyone leaves the ground. If a finish is not right, tell us and we will come back and look at it rather than argue about it. Landlords with multiple properties get a single monthly invoice covering every visit, not one per address. Water usage is metered and quoted realistically — we never charge for water we didn't use. Downpipe inlets are water-tested before we leave, not just visually checked. Fresh brush heads go on the pole for every glazing job over five years old. Detergent choice depends on substrate, not on habit — we don't run one product for everything. Communication defaults to WhatsApp because photo threads keep quotes and outcomes in one place. Every job sheet lists the crew, the start time, the finish time and the litres of water used. We priority-book care-home and rental customers because their timelines are usually tightest. The van livery is deliberately low-key because half the neighbours have booked us the following month. For solar-panel arrays the panel owner's approach method takes precedence over ours, always. If a re-clean is needed we book it in rather than debating who was right about the surface.

Typical problems on Malborough properties

• Block paving turning green every winter on shaded rural village layouts - 21.4 miles from PL3 - why photos beat phone tag for this kind of work.
• Slippery flagstones around the rear of the house on rural village layouts - at roughly 50.242,-3.797 - usually easier once the outside taps are back on in April.
• Tyre rub marks at the gate end of block-paved drives on stone cottages and modern detached - on painted render and stone - typically half a day, sometimes a full day if access is tight.
• Pattern-imprinted concrete dulled by UV and surface algae on rural village layouts - across natural slate - handled from a pole not a ladder wherever we can.
• Garage threshold paving rocking from sand wash-out across rural village stock - on stone cottages stock - quoted from photos in most cases, no doorstep survey.

Other Devon spots we work in regularly

FAQs we get from Malborough homeowners