Patios & Driveways - covering St Neot and the PL14 area

What we see on St Neot properties

When neighbours start asking who did your patios & driveways, that's usually a St Neot homeowner mid-project with us. Bodmin Moor village on the St Neot river with a famous medieval church, which shapes how patios & driveways on granite and painted render and Cornish slate actually plays out around PL14.

Granite and exposed render take a hammering from horizontal Dartmoor rain six months of the year. If you can see St Cleer from the end of your road, we cover you. Exposure here is very exposed - 21.7 miles from our PL3 base makes turnaround short.

There's no minimum charge to look at a job — we'll walk around it, quote it and leave the ball with you. We're happy to work weekends when the surface actually wants it, especially for driveway seals. If a finish is not right, tell us and we will come back and look at it rather than argue about it. The single biggest cause of re-growth is skipping the biocide dwell, and we don't skip it. Softwash and pressure washing are two different jobs with two different rigs — we don't try to force one to do the other. We prefer to under-promise on timing and over-deliver on finish, rather than the other way round. If the weather doesn't play ball on the day, we ring you before we set off, not after. Emergency gutter clears after a storm get slotted in the same week, not the same month. Downpipe inlets are water-tested before we leave, not just visually checked. Extras are always agreed on the day in writing before any additional work starts. Roof access ladders are inspected each morning and swapped out at the first sign of wear. Waste from moss removal gets bagged, weighed and taken to a licensed green-waste facility. Stone plinths get a rinse-only pass at the end of every wall softwash, no product left on stone. We photograph at three points during a wall softwash — plinth, mid-elevation and eaves — for the record. The wall pump gets calibrated at the top of each visit, not once per job — it drifts otherwise.

Where it usually starts in St Neot

• Block paving turning green every winter on shaded moorland village layouts - at roughly 50.500,-4.560 - something we quote weekly in this postcode.
• Sunken joint sand making blocks rock under the car on driveways near local lanes off A38 - on granite and painted render - a factor we build into every softwash quote here.
• Tyre rub marks at the gate end of block-paved drives on granite cottages and farmhouses - across Cornish slate - usually easier once the outside taps are back on in April.
• Oil staining where cars park on porous block paving across St Neot - on granite cottages stock - a maintenance item that gets cheaper the earlier you catch it.
• Resin-bound paths going dark where shade lingers in St Neot - at very exposed exposure - handled from a pole not a ladder wherever we can.

Honest answers to common questions

Neighbouring areas on the patios & driveways round