Fascia, Soffit & Cladding Cleaning in Dawlish

The Moore & Franks approach in Dawlish

Few places test a roofline like Dawlish. The exposed coast and that famous seawall mean fascias and cladding face salt spray and gale-driven damp head-on, and the painted and rendered fronts of the older town show staining fast. Properties up on the hills above the railway aren't spared either — the wind carries the salt inland. We clean fascias, soffits and cladding with soft-wash biocide solutions built for this kind of exposure: they clear salt-laden algae and grime without stripping paint or coatings. Whatever the material and however weathered, we'll tell you what's needed and quote it free, no obligation.

Plenty of Dawlish property earns its keep as a holiday let, especially down toward the Warren, and a green-streaked roofline is the first thing a guest notices from the drive. Owners letting rooms through the season want the boards looking sharp between changeovers, not stained with coastal algae. We soft-wash fascias, soffits and cladding on a schedule that fits the letting calendar, clearing the growth without the noise and mess of pressure blasting. A clean roofline lifts the whole front of a seaside property.

Salt is the constant here. Blown in off the beach, it settles into render and onto fascia boards and keeps them wet well after a shower has moved through, and green and black algae thrive on exactly that. Up on Barton Hill and around Holcombe the exposure is relentless, and the steep wooded valleys mean plenty of north-facing boards that never see direct sun. A biocide wash clears the salt-bound growth and stays active afterwards, so the roofline holds its finish through a hard coastal winter.

The older terraces around The Strand and Brunswick Place pack in tight, sharing valleys and downpipes that clog with moss and leaf litter and overflow down the boards below. The newer estates toward Secmaton and Sandy Lane fare little better, because pale render and coated cladding advertise every bit of coastal grime. We clear gutters from the ground with a vacuum pole and treat the roofline in the same visit. Cockwood and the streets by Dawlish Water get the same treatment, all a straightforward 25 minutes from us.

Our Dawlish customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX7 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Dawlish Warren, Dawlish Water (the Black Swans), Cockwood, Holcombe, Barton Hill, The Strand).