Commercial Cleaning in Ottery St Mary

The Moore & Franks approach in Ottery St Mary

Ottery St Mary is an inland market town with real heritage — the great church, the Georgian and cob-and-thatch buildings, the independent shops round the square. Set in the wet Otter valley, premises here see plenty of green algae and lichen on stonework and paving, especially on shaded, north-facing walls. Older render and historic masonry need a gentle, considered clean rather than brute force. We've cleaned Devon's town-centre and heritage exteriors for 25 years and know where to ease off. Family-run, fully insured to £5m. Shopfronts, pub frontages, signage and forecourts cleaned carefully, keeping the character of Ottery's old streets intact.

Market-day parking and the tight lanes around The Square shape how we work in Ottery. We keep the van compact and often take an early slot so we are not competing with shoppers and deliveries for kerb space. Signage, fascias and shopfront glass around Silver Street get cleaned with pole-fed pure water, so there are no ladders across a narrow pavement and a shop can trade normally while we work the frontage from the ground.

The building mix here is unusual for commercial work — cob and lime render sit right alongside modern shop units. Cob especially must breathe and cannot cope with pressure or soaking, so we clean it and any lime-rendered frontage with a low-pressure soft wash that lifts growth without wetting the core. Historic masonry gets DOFF superheated steam where it needs it, cleaning on temperature so the old surface is left sound and unscoured.

Down on the Otter floor the mist lingers over the meadows well into the morning, and that steady damp keeps growth coming back on shaded frontages and paving faster than owners expect. A planned visit through the wetter months keeps a shopfront legible and forecourt paving from turning slippery. Gutters under the heavy tree cover fill quickly, and we clear them from ground level using a pole-fed vacuum rather than putting ladders against old render.

Our Ottery St Mary customers are typically within 20 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX11, EX10, EX5 postcode area and the surrounding villages (St Mary's Church and the Tumbling Weir, The Square and Silver Street, Cadhay Manor, West Hill, Tipton St John, Newton Poppleford).