Commercial Pressure Washing in Torquay

The Moore & Franks approach in Torquay

Torquay's commercial scene is large and tourist-led — the harbourside bars and restaurants, the hotel forecourts climbing through Wellswood and the Warberries, the retail and car parks around the town centre and out at Shiphay. Salt-laden air off Tor Bay and frequent sea fret keep block paving and tarmac permanently damp, feeding the green and black algae that streaks across forecourts and slabs, while the steep wooded hillsides drop leaf litter that silts up drainage and yards. Heavy seasonal footfall leaves gum and spillage on the busiest frontages. We bring rotary flat-surface cleaners to lift it from anything between a small entrance and a multi-thousand-square-metre car park, working around trading hours. Twenty-five years, insured to £5m, free quote.

In a hotel town, the car park and entrance are the first thing a guest judges, and a greasy, green-streaked forecourt sets the wrong tone before they have parked. A lot of commercial cleaning in Torquay comes down to restoring that first impression — hotel frontages, restaurant terraces, the approaches guests walk across. We schedule it around changeovers and quiet spells so there is never wet, slippery paving underfoot when arrivals are wheeling cases in, and the entrance is dry by the time it matters.

Chewing gum is the curse of a busy harbourside pavement, welding itself to the surface in flat grey discs a cold wash will not budge. Heat is what releases it, so we run a hot-water unit to soften the gum and the trodden-in food and drink spillage before lifting it with the rotary head. On the heaviest footfall frontages that is the only method that genuinely clears them, rather than just fading the marks.

Torquay's tiered streets and steep hotel driveways make access its own challenge — a car park two hairpins up from the road needs the kit thought through before we arrive. We plan the hose runs and where the machine sits, and bring our own water by bowser where there is nowhere sensible to tap in. On the tighter harbourside sites we phase the work so trade keeps flowing while one section is cleaned at a time.

Our Torquay customers are typically within 45 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ1, TQ2 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Babbacombe & Oddicombe Beach, Cockington Village, St Marychurch, Wellswood, Torre Abbey, Kents Cavern).