Honest wall cleaning & softwash for Tideford homes

What's actually different about Tideford

By the time wall cleaning & softwash becomes obvious from the road in Tideford, it has usually been quietly building for two seasons. Tidal-creek village strung along the A38 west of Saltash, which shapes how wall cleaning & softwash on granite and painted render and Cornish slate actually plays out around PL12.

Granite, cob and lime-rendered cottages all need handling differently from a modern render. Crews are based 9.8 miles away in PL3, so callouts to Tideford are short. We batch Tideford bookings with landrake runs along A38.

Payment is only ever after you've seen the photos and signed off, never up front. If we spot something on the visit that's cheaper for you to sort a different way, we'll say so. The van carries hot and cold, softwash rig, vac pole and full drain protection so most jobs don't need a return trip. Detergents are biodegradable and lawns are pre-wetted before biocide goes near anything green. Softwash and pressure washing are two different jobs with two different rigs — we don't try to force one to do the other. Parking is where a lot of jobs go slow, so we ask about it up front rather than turn up and hope. Small jobs get done in the gap between larger jobs, which is why one-off cleans aren't more expensive here. Our repeat rate for annual bookings sits north of eighty percent, which is where our diary planning starts. Sub-zero mornings we wait until 10am to start softwash — the biocide simply doesn't work well below freezing. Wall softwash finishes with a plinth rinse in every case, which is where the streaks would otherwise settle. Every job carries a written scope, a written price and a written finish standard — no ambiguity. The rig gets rinsed after every job so cross-contamination between customers isn't ever a factor. We priority-book care-home and rental customers because their timelines are usually tightest. We keep a spare crown for the surface cleaner in the van because the swivel wears faster than anything else. The photo pack we send at completion doubles as a maintenance record for your property file.

Typical problems on Tideford properties

• Streaking down granite and painted render that's worse on the Landrake-facing elevation than the rest of the house - on stone cottages stock - something we quote weekly in this postcode.
• Algae returning fast on shaded walls thanks to Tideford's exposed setting - at exposed exposure - the reason we keep this round on a tight schedule.
• Tide-marks at conservatory roof drip lines on stone cottages and roadside terraces - in the Cornwall Council patch - why photos beat phone tag for this kind of work.
• Window-cill streaks running down the front of granite and painted render after rainwater pools - 9.8 miles from PL3 - worth flagging on enquiries this side of town.
• Pollution film thickened over years of rural village city air around PL12 - at roughly 50.409,-4.335 - usually easier once the outside taps are back on in April.

Other Cornwall spots we work in regularly

FAQs we get from Tideford homeowners