Local patios & driveways across Mary Tavy

What we see on Mary Tavy properties

When neighbours start asking who did your patios & driveways, that's usually a Mary Tavy homeowner mid-project with us. Old mining village on the A386 north of Tavistock, which shapes how patios & driveways on Dartmoor granite and lime render and natural slate actually plays out around PL19.

Slate roofs hold moss densely in this air, and gutters fill twice as fast under tree cover. Most weeks we're up and down the A386 between Mary Tavy and the next booking. Exposure here is very exposed - 15.3 miles from our PL3 base makes turnaround short.

Most enquiries we take are from owners who've been thinking about it for a while and finally caught the right week for the weather. The single most common feedback we get is that the invoice matches the quote exactly. Detergents are biodegradable and lawns are pre-wetted before biocide goes near anything green. If a finish is not right, tell us and we will come back and look at it rather than argue about it. We prefer to under-promise on timing and over-deliver on finish, rather than the other way round. Our repeat rate for annual bookings sits north of eighty percent, which is where our diary planning starts. The vac pole extends to forty feet which covers the vast majority of domestic three-storey gutter work. Detergent choice depends on substrate, not on habit — we don't run one product for everything. Waste from moss removal gets bagged, weighed and taken to a licensed green-waste facility. Rain-day contingency is baked into the price — no extra charge if we come back a second day to finish. Fascia paint repair we don't do, but we'll flag it and hand you a shortlist of decorators we trust. The kit list gets photographed on setup so nothing accidentally leaves site in the wrong van. Conservatory glass roofs get a two-pass rinse because the profile holds pooled water otherwise. If a re-clean is needed we book it in rather than debating who was right about the surface. The office answers between eight and seven six days a week — we don't hide behind an inbox.

Where it usually starts in Mary Tavy

• Block paving turning green every winter on shaded moorland village layouts - 15.3 miles from PL3 - a job we tend to batch with neighbouring runs.
• Indian sandstone losing colour under a thin algae film at Mary Tavy's very-exposed - at roughly 50.577,-4.125 - the reason we send photos on completion rather than invoice cold.
• Sunken joint sand making blocks rock under the car on driveways near A386 - on Dartmoor granite and lime render - handled from a pole not a ladder wherever we can.
• Tyre rub marks at the gate end of block-paved drives on granite cottages and Victorian miners' terraces - across natural slate - quoted from photos in most cases, no doorstep survey.
• Pattern-imprinted concrete dulled by UV and surface algae on moorland village layouts - on granite cottages stock - worth combining with the gutters if they're due at the same time.

Honest answers to common questions

Neighbouring areas on the patios & driveways round