Patios & Driveways - covering St Cleer and the PL14 area

What we see on St Cleer properties

If the patios & driveways at your St Cleer property has started looking tired, you're not alone. Slate roofs hold moss densely in this air, and gutters fill twice as fast under tree cover. Cornwall Council covers St Cleer, and building stock here is dominated by granite cottages and Victorian miners' housing.

Old copper-mining village on the southern skirts of Bodmin Moor, which shapes how patios & driveways on granite and lime render and Cornish slate actually plays out around PL14. If you can see Liskeard from the end of your road, we cover you.

Two of us live within twenty minutes of the yard, which is why booking flexibility is easier than customers expect. Windows are usually the entry-point job for new customers, and everything else follows on from that first visit. Softwash and pressure washing are two different jobs with two different rigs — we don't try to force one to do the other. Parking is where a lot of jobs go slow, so we ask about it up front rather than turn up and hope. Second-home owners tend to book us on annual visits with a photo pack rather than being on site. We keep a small stock of common ridge and hip tiles so minor replacements don't hold a job up. For the odd fourth-storey house we bring a taller pole in from a neighbour's yard, still no scaffold needed. Windows include the frames, the sills, the trickle vents and the cill drain holes, always. Copper sulphate never touches a roof we clean — it stains tiles and kills nothing worth killing. Two-storey work is the same price as single-storey where the pole reaches — height alone doesn't drive the cost. The van livery is deliberately low-key because half the neighbours have booked us the following month. Conservatory glass roofs get a two-pass rinse because the profile holds pooled water otherwise. The office answers between eight and seven six days a week — we don't hide behind an inbox. The photo pack we send at completion doubles as a maintenance record for your property file. Materials data sheets are available on request for any product we use on any of our work.

Materials & methods we'd use here

Most St Cleer properties we treat have granite and lime render 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 very-exposed moorland village sites - noted at very exposed exposure - a booking pattern we've settled into over five seasons.

• Method

  Rotary surface cleaner for stripe-free finish on block paving common across granite cottages and Victorian miners' housing - noted in the Cornwall Council patch - the reason we send photos on completion rather than invoice cold.

• Method

  Fan-tip cold rinse on Indian sandstone with the pressure dialled for St Cleer - noted 18.6 miles from PL3 - a job where getting the order right matters more than the products.

• Method

  Optional breathable acrylic sealer - lasts longer at St Cleer's very-exposed exposure - noted at roughly 50.489,-4.470 - a job with a proper written scope, no verbal add-ons.

Questions worth asking before you book

Where else in the PL14 area we book patios & driveways