Honest window cleaning for Lydford homes

What we see on Lydford properties

If the window cleaning at your Lydford property has started looking tired, you're not alone. Granite and exposed render take a hammering from horizontal Dartmoor rain six months of the year. Lydford sits in Devon at EX20, close enough to brentor that we regularly share visits.

Historic Saxon burh above the Lydford Gorge, which shapes how window cleaning on Dartmoor granite and lime render and natural slate actually plays out around EX20. Crews are based 18.9 miles away in PL3, so callouts to Lydford are short.

We aim to send the written quote inside the same evening you get in touch, and we don't chase you afterwards. Callouts get batched into the same run so pricing stays sensible and turnaround stays short. We never sub-contract out — the crew that quotes the job is the crew that does the job. Roof harnesses are anchored and inspected before anyone leaves the ground. K-Rend, Weber and silicone-render manufacturers all specify softwash as the correct maintenance method. We keep two vans on the road, which is why illness or weather rarely pushes a booking more than a day or two. We prefer to under-promise on timing and over-deliver on finish, rather than the other way round. Biocide runs get re-tested for concentration at the top of every day, not the top of every week. Roof re-bed work gets its own dedicated day — nobody wants a wet roof left open overnight. Extras are always agreed on the day in writing before any additional work starts. Detergent choice depends on substrate, not on habit — we don't run one product for everything. We priority-book care-home and rental customers because their timelines are usually tightest. 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. If a re-clean is needed we book it in rather than debating who was right about the surface.

Materials & methods we'd use here

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

• Method

  Carbon-fibre poles to 35 ft, sized for the typical moorland village roof line in EX20 - noted at roughly 50.643,-4.108 - a job where getting the order right matters more than the products.

• Method

  Frame and sill cleaned at the same time as the glass on every Lydford visit, no extra line - noted on Dartmoor granite and lime render - the elevation that always dictates the price.

• Method

  Pre-visit message the evening before - useful if you're parked tight on local lanes off A386 - noted across natural slate - and it's the section of the round we plan first thing in the week.

• Method

  Schedule reminders auto-sent so Lydford customers never have to chase - noted on granite cottages stock - and it's exactly the sort of job the fleet was set up for.

Where it usually starts in Lydford

• Salt film that squeegee work leaves behind on very-exposed elevations in Lydford - on granite cottages stock - something we quote weekly in this postcode.
• UPVC frames yellowing where algae has been ignored across granite cottages and stone farmhouses - at very exposed exposure - worth flagging on enquiries this side of town.
• Conservatory roofs darkened by algae - north slope first on moorland village layouts - in the West Devon Borough Council patch - the reason we send photos on completion rather than invoice cold.
• South-westerly glazing in Lydford caked with salt residue - Historic Saxon burh above the Lydford Gorge - 18.9 miles from PL3 - quoted from photos in most cases, no doorstep survey.
• Reflective film smears appearing on solar glazing across newer Lydford estates - at roughly 50.643,-4.108 - a job where getting the order right matters more than the products.

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Things Lydford customers ask us first