Signage & Awning Cleaning in Exeter

The Moore & Franks approach in Exeter

Exeter is the commercial hub of the region, and signage takes a beating here — from the shopfronts and fascia signs around the High Street and Princesshay to the big totems and unit signs out on Marsh Barton and the Sowton and Pinhoe business parks. City-centre air carries traffic film and grime that dull acrylic and painted signs fast, while units on the estates green over with algae on the shaded north sides. We're based just down the road in Topsham, so we can clean your signage early, before the doors open, and be gone before the first customer arrives. Fed-pole reach from the ground, no scaffold, no fuss — signs and awnings brought back to looking cared-for.

Every sign on an Exeter frontage is a different job. The acrylic and Foamex panels on the Guildhall and Gandy Street independents mark and dull if you scrub them wrong, the illuminated boxes above the chain units want careful handling around their seals, and the vinyl graphics on the older shopfronts down Fore Street lift under harsh chemicals. We read the substrate first, then pick a cleaning agent and a soft hand brush that shift the city's traffic film without scouring the finish or peeling the lettering off.

Working the pedestrianised core is as much about timing as reach. Much of the High Street is foot-traffic only for most of the day, and the lanes off Gandy Street are tight, so we clean before the shops unlock and use our water-fed poles to reach high fascias from the pavement rather than blocking a delivery bay with a tower. Out at the Alphington and Exe Bridges retail sheds it is the opposite problem — big forecourt totems, wide open and quick to do.

Commercial signage in Exeter is well suited to repeat maintenance. Multi-site operators with units spread across Matford and Sandy Gate can have one visit cover the lot, and the bars and restaurants down on the Quay have canopies and menu boards that need to stay sharp through the season. We can put any of it on a recurring schedule so the fascia never gets far enough gone to notice, which on a busy city frontage is money well spent.

Our Exeter customers are right on our doorstep. We cover the wider EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5 postcode area and the surrounding villages (St Leonard's, Heavitree, Pinhoe, Topsham, Pennsylvania, Exeter Quay).