Fascia, Soffit & Cladding Cleaning in Brixham

The Moore & Franks approach in Brixham

Brixham is a working harbour town, and its colour-washed cottages stacked up the hillside take the full weight of the sea. Salt spray, harbour damp and exposed positions mean fascias, soffits and painted cladding here weather hard and green over fast — and on those bright-painted frontages the staining stands out. Aggressive cleaning would only damage the finishes that give the town its look. We soft-wash with non-aggressive biocide solutions that clear salt-borne algae and grime while protecting paint, render and coated surfaces. From a harbourside cottage to a home up on the headland, we'll assess it carefully and give you a free, no-obligation quote.

Brixham stands on a headland pushed out into the Channel, and the weather it takes is in a different class from the rest of Devon. Salt rides in on the onshore wind and leaves a fine film over render, cladding and glass on the north and east faces, trapping dirt and feeding algae, which is why the painted and K-Rend fronts up Mount Pleasant Road turn green well ahead of anything inland. Boards facing the sea catch the worst of it. A biocide soft wash strips that salt-bound growth and keeps working afterwards, which a roofline this exposed to the open Channel genuinely needs to stay clean between visits.

Sea fret hangs over the town for days at a time, and slate and concrete-tile roofs that stay wet that long grow black lichen and the sort of moss that works tiles loose on the steep older terraces. Those terraces stand shoulder to shoulder, sharing valleys and downpipes that back up if nobody keeps an eye on them, while around the quayside the gulls contribute a mess all of their own. We clean and treat all of it from the ground, poles rather than ladders, so nothing leans on the tiles. On slopes this steep, working from below is the only safe way up.

Away from the harbour the picture changes. Through Churston Ferrers and Galmpton the larger detached homes sit among old trees whose leaf and needle litter finds its way into every gutter, while out at Wall Park, Sharkham and St Mary's Bay the newer builds stand on clifftop plots with nothing to break the wind. We clear the gutters from the ground and treat the roofline together. Brixham is 45 minutes from Topsham, so we plan the run to make a clifftop visit worth the trip.

Our Brixham customers are typically within 45 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ5 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Berry Head, Brixham Harbour & Fish Quay, Higher Brixham, St Mary's Bay, Churston Ferrers, Galmpton).