St Germans wall cleaning & softwash, done properly

Why St Germans matters for this kind of work

Plenty of St Germans properties were never designed with regular wall cleaning & softwash in mind, which is exactly why it matters. On the Lynher tidal creek beside the Port Eliot estate, which shapes how wall cleaning & softwash on granite and lime render and Cornish slate actually plays out around PL12.

Slate, stone and lime render all want a softer hand than the standard pressure wash. We tend to batch St Germans bookings with jobs in Saltash the same week. We batch St Germans bookings with saltash runs along local lanes off A38.

Payment is only ever after you've seen the photos and signed off, never up front. We work the softer end of the pressure range by default, and only step up when a surface genuinely wants it. Roof harnesses are anchored and inspected before anyone leaves the ground. The single biggest cause of re-growth is skipping the biocide dwell, and we don't skip it. 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. The vac pole extends to forty feet which covers the vast majority of domestic three-storey gutter work. Sub-zero mornings we wait until 10am to start softwash — the biocide simply doesn't work well below freezing. Fresh brush heads go on the pole for every glazing job over five years old. Waste from moss removal gets bagged, weighed and taken to a licensed green-waste facility. Every job sheet lists the crew, the start time, the finish time and the litres of water used. There's a fixed weekend rate for genuine emergencies — no gouging, published on the enquiry email. Kiln-dried sand is bought in bulk pallets, which keeps the driveway top-up cost small at the invoice end. Small drone footage is available on request for high-level roof inspections without ladder time. For solar-panel arrays the panel owner's approach method takes precedence over ours, always.

Common issues we see in St Germans

• Streaking down granite and lime render that's worse on the Saltash-facing elevation than the rest of the house - across Cornish slate - a pattern we see through the shoulder seasons.
• Pebbledash gone blotchy where a gutter has overflowed all season on estate cottages and Victorian terraces - on estate cottages stock - the sort of thing owners notice from the road first.
• Surface lichen on the south side of granite and lime render - common on estuary village stock in PL12 - at exposed exposure - the reason we send photos on completion rather than invoice cold.
• Window-cill streaks running down the front of granite and lime render after rainwater pools - in the Cornwall Council patch - the difference between a two-year finish and a five-year one.
• Render mottling where chimney flashings leak slowly onto granite and lime render - 8.6 miles from PL3 - worth combining with the gutters if they're due at the same time.

Other Cornwall spots we work in regularly

FAQs we get from St Germans homeowners