Driveway and Patio Cleaning for Marston Green Homes Under Trees
Driveways come as standard on this stock, which makes surface cleaning a far bigger job in Marston Green than in the terraced parts of the city. Block paving, concrete or tarmac in front of a garage, a path round the side to the back gate, and a slabbed terrace behind the house: that is the usual list, and most properties here have all three of them.
What greens a B37 drive is shade from front garden trees and north-facing frontages, tannin out of leaf left lying over winter, and moss working its way in through the joints. Dust from the roads lands too, but it is walked over and rinsed off by rain long before it binds. The growth and the staining are what need a proper clean.
- Service
- Patio & Driveway Cleaning
- Area covered
- Marston Green, B37
- Local authority
- Solihull
- How we do it
- Rotary flat surface cleaner at a pressure the surface can take
- From our Selly Oak base
- About 32 minutes
- Price
- Quoted per property before we start (quoting and booking questions)
- Booking
- Call or WhatsApp 07788 574283
Shade, leaf tannin and a car that never goes in the garage
Shade is the whole story out here. A drive that spends winter under a limb from the front garden stays damp from October to March, and algae takes hold on the surface film before it reaches the block itself. Joints go next, as moss and grass find the sand line and the edge courses begin to creep where a car turns onto them. Larger gardens mean more leaf lying about for longer, and leaf tannin leaves brown blotches on concrete that look like rust but lift with the right treatment. Garages supply the other half of the work, because a car kept on the drive, with the garage full of everything else, drips onto the same square of paving every single day.
- North-facing frontages and overhanging front garden trees holding damp on the surface from October to March
- Moss and grass rooting into the sand line of block paving, after which the edge courses begin to creep
- Leaf tannin from a winter of lying debris, leaving brown blotches on concrete that come out with a treatment
- Oil and tyre marks on the parking square, since the car lives on the drive here and the garage holds everything else
- Side paths and rear terraces along fence lines, where algae becomes a matter of grip as much as looks
Hooded rotary on sound block, low pressure on tarmac and old brick
The surface decides the tool, so we look at it before anything is switched on. Block paving and concrete in sound condition go under a hooded rotary head, which keeps the spray off your render and off whatever is parked alongside. Tarmac gets noticeably gentler treatment, because a hard lance pits it. Older brick paths in the village core, and anything butting straight up against render, are soft-washed, so growth dies chemically and washes away. Joint growth is taken out, and where the joints need re-sanding afterwards we quote it separately at the start, before the blocks can start moving.
- Surface identified first, since rotary work suits sound block and concrete and harms tarmac and old brick
- A hood over the rotary head, so silt does not end up across your render, the garage door or a car alongside
- Growth taken out of the joints, with re-sanding quoted separately where the joints need it
- Oil and tyre marks handled as their own job, because a general wash shifts neither of them
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Drives, side paths and back terraces
Spring is the natural time, once a winter of shade has shown itself across the front of the house. We cover the streets around the station and the old village centre, out along Land Lane and Alcott Lane and towards Bickenhill. A typical B37 job is a front drive, a side path and a rear terrace priced as a single piece of work. It can be paired with a window clean, so the glass, the render and the ground underneath are all done on one scheduled day.
Six shaded winters, re-sanding and oil in a B37 price
Area and condition do most of the pricing, and the surface decides how long that area takes. A block drive cleaned two summers ago is quick. The same drive after six shaded winters may want a second pass and a treatment left to sit, and we quote for that at the start. Re-sanding is quoted separately when the joints need it: rotary cleaning empties the joints of kiln-dried sand along with the moss, and blocks left with hollow joints start rocking under a car within a season. Oil that has had years to travel into porous concrete fades a long way without ever fully going. Oil is quoted as its own item where it needs separate treatment.
Every two years, or yearly for north frontages and side paths
Most B37 drives are comfortable on an eighteen month to two year cycle, dropping to annually where the frontage faces north or sits beneath a front garden tree. Side paths and rear terraces along a fence line are worth doing yearly as well, since that is where algae puts somebody on the floor. Spring is when it makes sense, with a winter of growth in plain sight. Anything untouched for five years wants a first clean whenever the diary allows.
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Marston Green · Patio & Driveway Cleaning
Frequently asked questions
Shade. The side under a front garden tree or facing north stays damp from October to March, so algae and moss take hold there first while the sunny side dries out. We clean the whole drive, and the shaded side usually wants a treatment left to dwell.
Not at anything like full pressure. A hard lance pits the surface and opens it up, after which it holds water and weed worse than it did to begin with. We drop right down for tarmac and accept the extra time. Sound concrete and block paving are the two surfaces that genuinely suit a rotary head.
It comes out with the moss, every time. No rotary head lifts growth from a joint and leaves the kiln-dried sand sitting in it. Blocks with empty joints begin to rock and the edges creep, so re-sanding is quoted separately, before your drive is ever wet.
A recent spill normally comes up completely. Years of drips that have travelled into porous concrete will fade a long way without disappearing, and we say which you are looking at before any money changes hands. On block paving the stain is often held in the joint sand, and it leaves with the sand.
Yes, and on this stock it makes sense to. The side path and the terrace along the fence line are usually greener than the drive, and cleaning all three together means the silt is cleared from the whole property at once. Allow most of a day for a detached house with block paving that needs re-sanding.
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