Cattedown's wall cleaning & softwash specialists

Local context that changes the job

We get more calls about wall cleaning & softwash in Cattedown than almost anywhere else we cover. Working waterfront district between Sutton Harbour and Prince Rock, which shapes how wall cleaning & softwash on painted render and limestone and natural slate actually plays out around PL4.

Slate fronts and painted renders sit side by side along the same street, and each wants its own approach. We're frequently in and around PL4, so booking-day flexibility is easier than people expect. We batch Cattedown bookings with plymouth city centre runs along Cattedown Road.

Payment is only ever after you've seen the photos and signed off, never up front. There's no minimum charge to look at a job — we'll walk around it, quote it and leave the ball with you. If your neighbour books at the same time we drop the callout portion — genuinely worth mentioning next door. Roof harnesses are anchored and inspected before anyone leaves the ground. If a finish is not right, tell us and we will come back and look at it rather than argue about it. Softwash and pressure washing are two different jobs with two different rigs — we don't try to force one to do the other. Second-home owners tend to book us on annual visits with a photo pack rather than being on site. The vac pole extends to forty feet which covers the vast majority of domestic three-storey gutter work. Copper sulphate never touches a roof we clean — it stains tiles and kills nothing worth killing. Runoff is diverted with drain bungs where soakaways feed straight into wildlife ponds. The most expensive part of any softwash is time on site, not the chemistry. Every softwash job has a pre-clean pH check on the render surface to keep dilution honest. Traffic-film patches on driveways get a hot detergent pre-wash before any surface cleaner touches them. The wall pump gets calibrated at the top of each visit, not once per job — it drifts otherwise. Enquiry-to-quote turnaround is measured weekly and posted on the wall in the yard.

What Cattedown owners ring us about

• Algae returning fast on shaded walls thanks to Cattedown's very-exposed setting - at very exposed exposure - a job we tend to batch with neighbouring runs.
• Pebbledash gone blotchy where a gutter has overflowed all season on Victorian terraces and industrial-edge cottages - in the Plymouth City Council patch - worth catching before the next wet stretch.
• Discolouration where downpipes meet painted render and limestone - near-universal on urban terrace properties this far from PL3 - 1.4 miles from PL3 - a pattern we see through the shoulder seasons.
• Window-cill streaks running down the front of painted render and limestone after rainwater pools - at roughly 50.365,-4.121 - worth flagging on enquiries this side of town.
• Green vertical patches behind drainpipes - a regular call from Cattedown on urban terrace stock - on painted render and limestone - a job that suits softwash first, pressure never.

Other Devon spots we work in regularly

FAQs we get from Cattedown homeowners