Play Park & Soft-Surface Sanitising in Ottery St Mary

The Moore & Franks approach in Ottery St Mary

Tucked into the Otter valley, Ottery St Mary's play areas sit in some of the dampest, most shaded ground around. The play park near the recreation ground, the soft surfaces at the local schools and the matting out toward West Hill and Tipton St John all sit under heavy tree canopy where mist lingers over the meadows well into the morning. That standing damp keeps wet-pour and rubber crumb green and slippery, and leaf fall stains the surfacing through autumn. We use DOFF III superheated steam to sanitise frames, soft-play, changing rooms and matting — clearing moss, algae and leaf stain with non-hazardous, child-safe products. Family-run, insured to £5m, twenty-five years' experience, and free to quote.

Deep shade and standing damp make Ottery's play surfaces green over faster than most, and the temptation is to blast them clean. That's a mistake on soft surfacing. A cold jet forces water into the surfacing and scatters the growth rather than removing it, so the green returns before long. The DOFF III works through heat instead — superheated steam sanitises at low pressure, killing the algae at the root, drawing it clear, and leaving the surface to dry rather than sit sodden.

A play park is a hands-on, mouths-on place for the under-fives, and that's where sanitising matters more than appearance. Handholds, moulded seats and the low rails toddlers grab onto collect grime and the film that Ottery's damp canopy feeds. Steam reaches into those textured grips and joints and sanitises them at temperature, clearing what a dry brush leaves behind — particularly on the well-used sites near the recreation ground and the primary schools.

The sites here belong to the town council, the schools and the community — the people we mostly deal with. In a valley that holds damp this long, a yearly sanitise before the spring is usually the right rhythm, sometimes with a lighter follow-up on the shadiest bays toward West Hill and Tipton St John. We work around term times and opening hours, cordon off a section at a time, and can add an optional non-hazardous top-coat where regrowth is quickest.

Our Ottery St Mary customers are typically within 20 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX11, EX10, EX5 postcode area and the surrounding villages (St Mary's Church and the Tumbling Weir, The Square and Silver Street, Cadhay Manor, West Hill, Tipton St John, Newton Poppleford).