Play Park & Soft-Surface Sanitising in Totnes

The Moore & Franks approach in Totnes

Tucked low in the sheltered Dart valley, Totnes keeps its play areas in deep shade for much of the year. The play park down toward the riverside, the soft surfaces near the schools and the matting across Bridgetown and Follaton all sit under the oaks and beeches lining the Dart, so wet-pour and rubber crumb stay damp, green and slippery while leaf fall stains the surfacing each autumn. The town's environmental streak means non-hazardous methods matter as much as a proper clean. Our DOFF III superheated steam sanitises frames, soft-play, changing rooms and bonded surfaces using products completely safe for children and the river it drains to. Family-run, insured to £5m, twenty-five years on, free quote on request.

Totnes cares about what goes onto the ground and into the Dart, and that suits how we work. The DOFF III sanitises mainly through superheated steam — heat does the job, not a load of chemicals — so on a riverside play area there's no run-off of harsh product heading for the water. Where a longer-lasting finish is wanted we can add an optional non-hazardous sanitiser, chosen for use around children, but the bulk of the cleaning is simply hot steam at low pressure.

The play surfaces here sit in deep shade for much of the year, so they green over readily — the wet-pour and rubber matting on the Bridgetown and Follaton sites, the steel and moulded frames, the grass-mat under the swings. Each takes the steam a little differently, so we work hotter into the deep joints and lighter over soft surfacing. We give the parts children grip and sit on most — the rails, the seats, the slide beds — the closest attention, driving steam right into them.

Whoever manages a play area here — a school, a preschool, a community group or the town council — tends to ask the same first question: what's actually going onto the surface the children use. With hot steam doing most of the work and only a non-hazardous finish if it's wanted, that's an easy one to answer honestly. We plan visits around term times and opening hours, work a section at a time, and a Totnes park is never shut for a full day.

Our Totnes customers are typically within 30 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ9 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Bridgetown, Follaton, Dartington, Berry Pomeroy, Ashprington, Stoke Gabriel).