Wall Cleaning & Softwash - covering Looe and the PL13 area

Local context that changes the job

We get more calls about wall cleaning & softwash in Looe than almost anywhere else we cover. Working harbour town facing the open Channel, which shapes how wall cleaning & softwash on painted lime render and stone and Cornish slate actually plays out around PL13.

Lime render and slate need the softer end of the pressure range to keep their finish. If you can see Liskeard from the end of your road, we cover you. We batch Looe bookings with liskeard runs along A387.

Payment is only ever after you've seen the photos and signed off, never up front. We never sub-contract out — the crew that quotes the job is the crew that does the job. Detergents are biodegradable and lawns are pre-wetted before biocide goes near anything green. Roof harnesses are anchored and inspected before anyone leaves the ground. Ridge tile re-bedding and any other small remedial work is quoted separately, never bundled into the wash price. 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. Sub-zero mornings we wait until 10am to start softwash — the biocide simply doesn't work well below freezing. Pressure washing patios always finishes with a lawn edge tidy so borders don't end up sanded. Two-storey work is the same price as single-storey where the pole reaches — height alone doesn't drive the cost. The most expensive part of any softwash is time on site, not the chemistry. Rain-day contingency is baked into the price — no extra charge if we come back a second day to finish. Kiln-dried sand is bought in bulk pallets, which keeps the driveway top-up cost small at the invoice end. Conservatory glass roofs get a two-pass rinse because the profile holds pooled water otherwise. If a job goes wrong we say so on the invoice and we credit it — nothing gets buried.

What Looe owners ring us about

• Algae returning fast on shaded walls thanks to Looe's very-exposed setting - at roughly 50.353,-4.452 - a factor we build into every softwash quote here.
• Render staining at the plinth on harbour town properties along the A387 - on painted lime render and stone - a job that suits softwash first, pressure never.
• Pebbledash gone blotchy where a gutter has overflowed all season on fishermen's cottages and Victorian terraces - across Cornish slate - the sort of thing owners notice from the road first.
• Surface lichen on the south side of painted lime render and stone - common on harbour town stock in PL13 - on fishermen's cottages stock - a maintenance item that gets cheaper the earlier you catch it.
• Render mottling where chimney flashings leak slowly onto painted lime render and stone - at very exposed exposure - the reason we send photos on completion rather than invoice cold.

Other Cornwall spots we work in regularly

FAQs we get from Looe homeowners