Pressure Washing in Ottery St Mary

The Moore & Franks approach in Ottery St Mary

Pressure washing has plenty to do in Ottery St Mary, where farmland lanes, mellow stone cottages and the odd cob-and-thatch property sit inland in the low-lying Otter valley. Being rural and damp, the town gets moss on the paths, green algae on the patios and mud tracked in off the lanes. The older stone and brick surfaces here want a measured approach, not a heavy hand. Moore & Franks bring 25 years of treating Devon's country properties with care, lifting growth and grime cleanly while protecting soft historic materials. We're a family-run firm, fully insured to £5m, and happy to travel the East Devon lanes to get the job done right.

The 1960s to 90s estates climbing toward West Hill and up Tip Hill make up a good share of our Ottery work, and they are typically concrete or early block-paved drives that have quietly greened over across decades of valley damp. These respond really well to a proper clean: years of moss and ingrained dirt come off, the joints get re-sanded, and a drive that looked past it comes back sharp. We cover the newer render-estate paving out that way just the same.

In the older heart of town, around The Square and Silver Street, the cottages have soft stone and brick paths, worn steps and small courtyards that a heavy pressure washer would wreck. On those we ease right off, or soft wash, to shift the growth without lifting the surface or blowing out old lime pointing. It is the sort of judgement that comes with 25 years on Devon stone, and it is what keeps historic surfaces intact rather than scarred.

Sitting on the Otter floor, the town holds mist and damp well into the morning, and the trees along the river and the lanes out to Cadhay drop leaf litter that rots into a green film on shaded paths. Growth is quick to return here, so an optional biocide top-coat after a clean is well worth it on north-facing surfaces. We work weekdays across East Devon, price every job free in writing, and reply the same day.

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).