Driveway Cleaning in Horley

Driveway Cleaning for homes and businesses in Horley

Horley is where we are based, so driveways here are the ones we see most. Most of them are block paving or concrete, and most of them have the same story: the car sits on the same two strips of the drive for years, the rest goes green, and one spring you notice the whole thing has gone two shades darker without ever looking dirty on any single day. Being in the town means we can work around when the drive is actually free, which matters more than people expect on a job that needs the car off it for a few hours.

Why Horley block paving goes green in the same places

Algae needs moisture and low light. On a typical Horley drive that means the shaded strip along the fence, the run beside the house wall, and anywhere a downpipe discharges onto the paving. Those areas stay damp for days after the open middle of the drive has dried, so they green over first and they green over again first after a clean.

It is worth knowing that before you book, because it changes what a good result looks like. The whole drive comes up clean, but the shaded strip will start to turn again sooner than the open areas. That is the surface doing what surfaces do, not the clean failing.

What happens to the joints

Cleaning block paving properly takes the jointing sand out with the dirt. There is no way round it: the muck sits in the top of the joint, so lifting the muck lifts the sand. Left open, those joints let weeds seed and let the blocks move under the car.

What your joints look like, and what they will need once the drive is clean, gets set out at quote stage, so it is agreed before anyone starts rather than being a surprise at the end.

How we work

1. 1
   Free quote and surface check

   Send photos or book a visit. We work out what the drive is made of, because block paving, concrete, imprinted concrete and tarmac all take a different approach. We also look for loose blocks, sunken sections, oil patches and anything that will not come out.

2. 2
   Clear the drive and plan the run-off

   Cars and bins off, loose debris swept up, and a look at where the dirty water is going to end up. It wants keeping away from planting and out of open drains as far as the layout allows, with anything vulnerable at the edges covered.

3. 3
   Rotary pass across the open areas

   A flat surface cleaner does the main run. It holds an even distance off the surface, so you get one consistent finish instead of the stripes you get from waving a lance about.

4. 4
   Lance the edges and detail work

   The rotary head cannot reach kerbs, gullies, drain surrounds or the tight run alongside a wall. That gets done by hand so the edges match the middle instead of framing the drive in green.

5. 5
   Joints, rinse and tidy

   Cleaning block paving pulls sand out of the joints, so we talk you through what the joints need afterwards and agree it before we start. Then a final rinse, with the silt swept up rather than washed into the nearest gully, and everything put back.

Not every surface suits high pressure. Where needed we use soft washing to protect the material while still getting a deep clean.

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