Commercial Cleaning in Topsham

The Moore & Franks approach in Topsham

Topsham trades on its looks — the Dutch-gabled merchants' houses, the quayside, the independent shops and pubs that draw people down off the estuary. Heritage frontages and listed brickwork need a careful hand, not a pressure washer turned up to full. Estuary damp encourages green algae on north-facing walls and paving, which gets slippery as well as unsightly. We're a couple of minutes up the road on Ferryman Way, so we know these streets well. Gentle, surface-appropriate exterior cleaning, fully insured to £5m, 25 years at it. We'll keep your Topsham premises smart without touching the character that makes the town what it is.

Getting kit to a Topsham job is half the thought. Fore Street and The Strand are narrow, the parking is tight and the quayside comes and goes with the tide, so we travel light and often work the quieter early hours before the shops and pubs get going. Being based a couple of minutes away on Ferryman Way, we can drop in, look at a frontage and be gone before the town wakes up, with no van clogging a lane at lunchtime.

The older frontages mix soft red brick, lime-rendered fronts and a fair amount of painted timber on the shop fascias, and none of it takes kindly to force. We soft wash the rendered and painted surfaces at low pressure and bring DOFF superheated steam to any listed brick or stonework, cleaning on heat so the historic face is not scoured. Timber signage and gilt lettering we clean gently with pole-fed pure water, keeping the detail crisp without soaking the joinery.

That slippery green film the estuary damp leaves on quayside paving and shaded courtyards is as much a safety issue as a look, especially outside a pub or cafe where people walk. We can lift it and, where an owner wants, keep it in check with a scheduled visit through the wetter months. Whatever we clear from gutters or paving is contained and taken away, not flushed toward the marsh or the river a few yards down the road.

Our Topsham customers are typically within 10 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX3 postcode area and the surrounding villages (The Strand & the Quay, Goat Walk riverside path, Bowling Green Marsh, Fore Street, Darts Farm, Topsham Lock).