Fascia, Soffit & Cladding Cleaning in Torquay

The Moore & Franks approach in Torquay

Torquay's hillside terraces and the white-rendered, palm-fronted villas that earned it the English Riviera name take the sea air full-on. Salt spray off the bay and the steep, often shaded streets mean fascias, soffits and rendered cladding stain and green fast — and against all that pale render and white uPVC, it really shows. We clean them the soft-wash way: non-aggressive biocide solutions that clear salt-borne algae and grime without stripping render or paint. From a seafront apartment block to a villa up in the Warberries, we handle domestic and commercial work alike and give you a free, no-obligation quote first.

Torquay stacks its housing up steep hillsides above the harbour, and that terrain shapes every job. The big villas around Wellswood and Babbacombe put their slate and clay roofs high up on sloping plots, with fascias and soffits well out of comfortable reach. Ladders on ground like that are a poor idea, so we work the rooflines from below on extending poles. It keeps us safe on the slope and the old roofs undisturbed, and on hills this steep it is comfortably the most practical way to clean up top.

Air off Tor Bay carries its salt everywhere, and the sea fret that follows it in means the town's render never properly dries. Shaded elevations on the rendered semis through Chelston, Shiphay and Preston turn green and then black, and around Ellacombe and Upton the painted pebbledash ages fast in all that coastal wet. Boards facing the bay hold a salt film that pulls in dirt and feeds the algae. A biocide soft wash strips it and keeps working afterwards, which a roofline this exposed to Tor Bay genuinely needs.

Every autumn the wooded hillsides load the gutters with leaves, and through the wet winters that overflow tracks down walls and boards. We clear it from the ground and see to the roofline together. Balconies, conservatories and sea-view frontages take their share of the salt as well, so the work in this town never really has an off-season. From St Marychurch to Cockington we cover the lot, and though Torquay is 45 minutes off, we plan the run to make a visit worthwhile.

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).