Commercial Pressure Washing in Ottery St Mary

The Moore & Franks approach in Ottery St Mary

Ottery St Mary's commercial work tends to be the businesses around The Square and Silver Street, the farm shops and trade units out toward Cadhay and Tipton St John, and the car parks that serve the town centre. Sitting low on the Otter valley floor, the town holds damp — mist lingers over the meadows below St Mary's Church well into the morning — so block paving and tarmac stay slow to dry and green up readily, especially under the heavy tree cover lining the river and lanes. Leaf litter and farm muck wash grime across yards and forecourts, and shaded slabs grow slippery. We bring rotary flat-surface gear for the larger areas and clean smaller frontages carefully. Family-run, insured to £5m, free quote.

Farm shops and rural trade units make up a lot of the commercial work around Ottery, and they bring their own quirks — big open yards, tractor and delivery traffic, and often an organic muck you do not get in town. On any managed site we hand over method statements and RAMS before starting and we are fully insured, so a site manager knows how we are keeping vehicles, staff and the public clear while the machine runs.

That farmyard grime — pollen, dust, silage residue and green algae baked onto concrete — will not shift with a cold rinse. A heated wash softens it first so the rotary head can strip it back to clean, hard-standing concrete rather than smearing it about. Out toward Cadhay and Tipton St John the yards are large and often shaded, so they hold the muck and the damp, and it takes proper heat and the right head to bring them back.

Ottery's flat town-centre surfaces hold water, and standing damp is what lets moss and algae dig in. Where a car park keeps greening, a choked gully or a flat fall is usually behind it, so we clear the drainage as we clean and point out anything below the surface that is driving the problem. Getting the water away matters as much as scrubbing the top, or you are back to green within months.

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).