Play Park & Soft-Surface Sanitising in Newton Abbot

The Moore & Franks approach in Newton Abbot

Low in the Teign valley, Newton Abbot's play parks rarely get a proper dry spell. Decoy Country Park's play area, the recreation grounds around Wolborough and Highweek and the soft surfaces at the town's nurseries all sit under damp, shaded air that pools off the estuary and the wooded slopes, so rubber crumb and bonded surfaces green over and turn greasy underfoot. Leaf fall off the Bradley and Decoy trees only adds to the muck. We bring in DOFF III superheated steam to sanitise frames, matting, soft-play and changing rooms — clearing algae, leaf stain and ground-in grime with products that are entirely non-hazardous to little ones. Family firm, insured to £5m, twenty-five years' experience, free quote any time.

The instinct with a green, greasy play surface is to reach for a pressure-washer, but on Newton Abbot's damp-shaded parks that's the wrong call. A cold jet drives water deep into the surfacing and simply spreads the algae around instead of clearing it, so it's back within weeks. The DOFF III does the opposite: superheated steam sanitises at temperature and low pressure, so the growth is lifted and killed off, the matting stays intact, and the surface dries instead of staying saturated.

The town's play stock is a real mix — traditional steel-frame equipment on the older Wolborough and Highweek rec grounds, chunkier moulded multiplay units on the newer estates around Mile End, and soft-play indoors at the nurseries. Each takes the steam differently, so we adjust as we go: hotter and slower into the deep joints of a climbing frame, lighter across a rubber safety surface. Handholds, slide beds and the underside of seats — the hand-contact points — get the closest attention.

Most of our play-park work comes through the people responsible for these sites — town and parish councils, school and pre-school managers, and the committees running community areas. In a valley town where surfaces green up faster than most — the well-used parks over toward Decoy and Bradley included — a dependable once-a-year sanitise before the spring is usually the sensible rhythm. We fit around term times and opening hours, cordoning off a section at a time so a site never closes entirely for the day.

Our Newton Abbot customers are typically within 30 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ12 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Wolborough, Highweek, Milber, Kingsteignton, Decoy Country Park, Bradley Manor).