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Patios & Driveways - covering Sheepstor and the PL20 area

There's a reason patios & driveways sits near the top of every Sheepstor homeowner's list once spring arrives. Granite and exposed render take a hammering from horizontal Dartmoor rain six months of the year.

What's actually different about Sheepstor

There's a reason patios & driveways sits near the top of every Sheepstor homeowner's list once spring arrives. Granite and exposed render take a hammering from horizontal Dartmoor rain six months of the year.

Tiny moorland hamlet above Burrator Reservoir, which shapes how exterior cleaning here actually plays out. If you can see Meavy from the end of your road, we cover you.

What good patios & driveways looks like here

  1. 1Pre-biocide twice on shaded sections at Sheepstor's very-exposed exposure
  2. 2Kiln-dried sand brushed in twice on driveways with a heavy camber on moorland village sites
  3. 3Joints re-sanded across two passes on heavy-camber drives in Sheepstor
  4. 4Pattern-imprinted concrete sealer re-coated in the same visit on moorland village layouts
  5. 5Tyre-rub zones double-passed on driveways serving granite cottages and farmhouses

Materials & methods we'd use here

Most Sheepstor properties we treat have Dartmoor granite walls and a natural 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 very-exposed moorland village sites

  • Method

    Rotary surface cleaner for stripe-free finish on block paving common across granite cottages and farmhouses

  • Method

    Fan-tip cold rinse on Indian sandstone with the pressure dialled for Sheepstor

  • Method

    Pattern-imprinted concrete re-sealed in the same visit - useful on moorland village layouts

Typical problems on Sheepstor properties

  • Sunken joint sand making blocks rock under the car on driveways near local lanes
  • Weeds firing up through joints by April on moorland village properties
  • Stripey patches from previous DIY washes - granite cottages and farmhouses owners ring us most
  • Resin-bound paths going dark where shade lingers in Sheepstor
  • Garage threshold paving rocking from sand wash-out across moorland village stock

Recent patios & driveways in the area

Indian sandstone rear patio

Softwash pre-clean and low-pressure rinse — colour came back without using a rotary head.

Pattern-imprinted concrete driveway

Cleaned, dried, re-sealed in the same booking — pattern detail brought back hard.

Sloping block-paved drive

Salt and moss combined: hot-wash, biocide and re-sand done over a single day.

Things Sheepstor customers ask us first

Get the Sheepstor patios & driveways sorted before the next wet spell

Booking early means you control the date, not the weather. Send your postcode and we'll come back with a price the same day.