Roborough patios & driveways, done properly

What's actually different about Roborough

There's a reason patios & driveways sits near the top of every Roborough homeowner's list once spring arrives. Septic-served properties make it worth thinking about runoff before any cleaning starts. Roborough sits in Devon at PL6, close enough to yelverton that we regularly share visits.

Strung along the A386 between Plymouth and Dartmoor, which shapes how patios & driveways on painted render and stone and slate and concrete tile actually plays out around PL6. We tend to batch Roborough bookings with jobs in Derriford the same week.

We aim to send the written quote inside the same evening you get in touch, and we don't chase you afterwards. Payment is only ever after you've seen the photos and signed off, never up front. The single most common feedback we get is that the invoice matches the quote exactly. We never sub-contract out — the crew that quotes the job is the crew that does the job. There's no minimum charge to look at a job — we'll walk around it, quote it and leave the ball with you. Windows are usually the entry-point job for new customers, and everything else follows on from that first visit. Access photos help more than measurements when you're getting a first quote back from us. The kit gets pressure-tested weekly, which is boring but it's why we haven't had a rig failure on a customer job. The vac pole extends to forty feet which covers the vast majority of domestic three-storey gutter work. 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. Small drone footage is available on request for high-level roof inspections without ladder time. For solar-panel arrays the panel owner's approach method takes precedence over ours, always. Traffic-film patches on driveways get a hot detergent pre-wash before any surface cleaner touches them. The photo pack we send at completion doubles as a maintenance record for your property file.

Materials & methods we'd use here

Most Roborough properties we treat have painted render and stone walls and a slate and concrete tile 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 exposed rural village sites - noted 5 miles from PL3 - worth combining with the gutters if they're due at the same time.

• Method

  Rotary surface cleaner for stripe-free finish on block paving common across older cottages and ribbon-development semis - noted at roughly 50.443,-4.116 - one of the calls we get most in the wetter half of the year.

• Method

  Fan-tip cold rinse on Indian sandstone with the pressure dialled for Roborough - noted on painted render and stone - the reason our reviews mention 'no surprises' more than anything.

• Method

  Optional breathable acrylic sealer - lasts longer at Roborough's exposed exposure - noted across slate and concrete tile - and it's exactly the sort of job the fleet was set up for.

Typical problems on Roborough properties

• Indian sandstone losing colour under a thin algae film at Roborough's exposed - across slate and concrete tile - something we quote weekly in this postcode.
• Sunken joint sand making blocks rock under the car on driveways near A386 - on older cottages stock - a job we tend to batch with neighbouring runs.
• Stripey patches from previous DIY washes - older cottages and ribbon-development semis owners ring us most - at exposed exposure - typically half a day, sometimes a full day if access is tight.
• Slippery flagstones around the rear of the house on rural village layouts - in the West Devon Borough Council patch - the difference between a two-year finish and a five-year one.
• Cobbled aprons holding moss in joints all winter on older cottages and ribbon-development semis - 5 miles from PL3 - worth combining with the gutters if they're due at the same time.

Nearby areas we also cover

Things Roborough customers ask us first