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Pressure washing in Caterham
Pressure washing in Caterham, Surrey: driveways, patios, roofs and gutters cleaned, plus soft washing where a surface needs a lighter touch. Caterham is served from Horley, homes and commercial premises alike. The first step is a free, no-obligation quote.
If your Caterham driveway or patio has turned green with moss and algae, we can put it right. Dirty South Power Wash brings professional pressure washing and gentle soft washing to homes and businesses across the town, travelling in from our base in nearby Horley. From block-paved drives and paving slabs to roofs and blocked gutters, we clean each surface the way it should be cleaned.
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- Right method matched to every surface
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Exterior cleaning in Caterham: your questions answered
Can I just clean the patio myself with a domestic pressure washer?
For light algae on concrete or porcelain, often yes, and it is a reasonable thing to do. Where a domestic machine struggles is even coverage: a hand lance leaves stripes, because holding a consistent distance across a whole patio by hand is genuinely hard. The bigger risk is that a domestic washer is still easily powerful enough to damage sandstone, blow out joints and strip render.
Are the patio cleaners sold in supermarkets any good?
For surface algae they are fine, and for black spot lichen they generally are not. Most retail products are broad biocides that kill green growth on top and do very little to lichen rooted into the stone, which needs a stronger treatment and real dwell time. Read what the bottle actually claims to treat, because the label often only promises the easy half.
What can I do between cleans to make the results last?
Keep organic matter off the surface and keep water moving. Sweeping leaves off before they sit and rot, clearing gutters so they are not discharging down a wall, keeping joints topped up and cutting back anything holding shade over a surface all do more than any product. Growth needs damp and debris, so removing both is most of the battle.
When is it worth calling somebody in Caterham instead of doing it yourself?
When the surface is delicate, high, steep or slippery. Render, painted masonry, roofs, tile hanging and old stone all punish a wrong guess and cost real money to put right. Anything at height, or on the sort of slope Caterham is built across, is a safety question rather than a cleaning one. A flat concrete patio on a sunny afternoon is neither.
Will I damage something if I get it wrong?
On the wrong surface, yes, and usually permanently. The common ones are stripes cut into block paving by a close lance, sandstone left pitted and rougher than before, render blown off in patches, tarmac stripped back to loose stone, and jointing sand blasted out so the paving starts moving. None of those can be undone by cleaning it again more carefully.
Is it cheaper to hire a machine for the weekend?
Sometimes on a straightforward job, and it is worth being honest with yourself about which job you have. Hire covers the machine, not the surface cleaner attachment, the treatment, the joint sand or getting rid of what comes off. On a big or delicate area the sums usually stop working, and a mistake on delicate stone costs more than the whole job would have.
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