Play Park & Soft-Surface Sanitising in Plymouth

The Moore & Franks approach in Plymouth

Plymouth runs play areas right across the city, from the soft surfaces near the Hoe and Mount Batten to the estate play parks of Plymstock and Plympton and the school playgrounds through Peverell and Mutley. Exposed to the Sound, the salt-bearing onshore winds drive moisture deep into wet-pour and rubber matting, keeping them damp for weeks and feeding the black algae and green moss that coat surfacing across the city. Heavy tree cover on the Victorian avenues drops leaf litter on top. We bring DOFF III superheated steam in to sanitise frames, soft-play, changing rooms and bonded surfaces, clearing salt film, algae and leaf stain with non-hazardous, child-safe products. Family-run, fully insured to £5m, twenty-five years' experience, free quote any time.

Plymouth is a city, and its play provision is on a different scale to the Devon towns — dozens of estate parks through Plymstock and Plympton, school and nursery grounds across Peverell and Mutley, and the public areas near the Hoe and the waterfront. We work for the people who look after them: schools, community groups and site managers who need a dependable, insured firm that can cover a lot of ground. Plymouth is the far end of our patch — an hour down the A38 — but we cover the city in full, taking on sites here as readily as those closer to home.

The equipment across the city is a real mix — older steel frames on the established estate parks, chunkier moulded multiplay on the newer developments out at Sherford, wet-pour, bonded rubber and grass-mat surfaces throughout. Each takes the steam at its own rate, so we adjust as we go, working hotter into deep joints and lighter over soft matting. The hand-contact points — grab-rails, seats, slide beds — get the closest attention, sanitised at temperature rather than skimmed with a brush.

With the Sound driving salt and damp into everything, the kit here weathers hard, so a gentle method matters. The DOFF III sanitises with heat at low pressure, lifting the salt-fed film and the black algae and moss without stripping painted frames or waterlogging the matting a cold jet would soak. It kills the growth rather than scattering it, and the surfaces dry fast, so a Plymouth play area is back open the same day rather than cordoned off through a wet week.

Our Plymouth customers are typically within 1 hour of our Exeter base. We cover the wider PL1, PL2, PL3, PL4, PL5, PL6, PL7 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Plymouth Hoe, The Barbican, Devonport, Mutley & Mannamead, Plymstock, Plympton St Maurice).