Dousland wall cleaning & softwash, done properly

What's actually different about Dousland

There's a reason wall cleaning & softwash sits near the top of every Dousland homeowner's list once spring arrives. Granite and exposed render take a hammering from horizontal Dartmoor rain six months of the year. West Devon Borough Council covers Dousland, and building stock here is dominated by granite cottages and 1960s bungalows.

Small Dartmoor village east of Yelverton on the road up to Princetown, which shapes how wall cleaning & softwash on painted render and Dartmoor granite and natural slate actually plays out around PL20. We tend to batch Dousland bookings with jobs in Yelverton the same week.

Job photos land in your inbox the same day, and are yours to keep for landlord records or insurance. K-Rend, Weber and silicone-render manufacturers all specify softwash as the correct maintenance method. Ridge tile re-bedding and any other small remedial work is quoted separately, never bundled into the wash price. Access photos help more than measurements when you're getting a first quote back from us. Small jobs get done in the gap between larger jobs, which is why one-off cleans aren't more expensive here. The kit gets pressure-tested weekly, which is boring but it's why we haven't had a rig failure on a customer job. Biocide runs get re-tested for concentration at the top of every day, not the top of every week. For the odd fourth-storey house we bring a taller pole in from a neighbour's yard, still no scaffold needed. Downpipe inlets are water-tested before we leave, not just visually checked. The most expensive part of any softwash is time on site, not the chemistry. For historic properties we send a method statement covering exactly what will and won't be used. Kiln-dried sand is bought in bulk pallets, which keeps the driveway top-up cost small at the invoice end. For solar-panel arrays the panel owner's approach method takes precedence over ours, always. We keep a spare crown for the surface cleaner in the van because the swivel wears faster than anything else. The office answers between eight and seven six days a week — we don't hide behind an inbox.

Materials & methods we'd use here

Most Dousland properties we treat have painted render and Dartmoor granite walls and a natural slate roof. That changes a few of the choices we'd make.

• Method

  Quaternary ammonium surfactant added so biocide clings to your painted render and Dartmoor granite elevation in Dousland - noted 8.8 miles from PL3 - a booking pattern we've settled into over five seasons.

• Method

  Low-volume rinse from a high-flow tank - critical on the softer finishes you see across granite cottages and 1960s bungalows - noted at roughly 50.499,-4.093 - the sort of clean that pays for itself in kerb appeal.

• Method

  Suitable for K-Rend, Weber and silicone renders — common on the newer moorland village properties around PL20 - noted on painted render and Dartmoor granite - the reason our reviews mention 'no surprises' more than anything.

• Method

  Lime render handled with a half-strength mix and a longer dwell — important on older Dousland stock - noted across natural slate - and it's exactly the sort of job the fleet was set up for.

Questions worth asking before you book

Where else in the PL20 area we book wall cleaning & softwash