Driveway Cleaning in Horsham

Driveway Cleaning for homes and businesses in Horsham

A driveway that sits under or beside mature trees is a different job from one out in the open. If that is your Horsham drive, the tree cover changes what needs doing and when. A drive in the open gets dirty slowly and evenly. A drive under a canopy gets leaf fall every autumn, sap and honeydew through the summer, permanent shade on one side, and it stays wet for days after rain because the sun never gets to it properly.

Leaf staining is not the same as dirt

Wet leaves left on paving for a few weeks leach tannin into the surface. On concrete and light-coloured block paving that leaves brown blotches in the exact shape of the leaves, and they sit in the surface rather than on it.

Tannin staining responds to the right treatment far better than it responds to pressure. Blasting harder just wears the block face. Where staining has been in the surface for several autumns it usually lightens a long way instead of vanishing completely, and we will say which of those we think you are looking at.

Long drives and where the silt ends up

On a long drive the washing water has to travel somewhere, and it carries a lot of fine silt with it. Left to its own devices it collects at the bottom of the slope, in the gully, or in a neat grey line across the threshold of the garage.

Working in sections and clearing as you go is what stops a whole drive worth of silt ending up at one end. On a drive that runs to a soakaway or a gully, that also stops the outlet packing up with sediment, which is a nuisance nobody thanks you for.

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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