Driveway & Patio Cleaning in Stirchley

Shaded yards and blue brick entries that stay green

Permanent shade and trapped moisture are the whole story. A Stirchley yard is enclosed on three sides by brick, drains slowly, and gets no meaningful sun across the winter half of the year, so algae establishes on the slabs and the blue brick and simply stays there. The shared entry is worse again: it is a covered or half-covered passage with a step, always damp, and it is the route everyone uses to reach the back. Rear walls facing the canal carry the same green film up to about waist height. None of this is fixed by a stiff brush, and much of it sits against soft old brickwork and lime mortar that high pressure would open up.

• Enclosed rear yards on three brick sides with little winter sun, so algae establishes and stays
• Shared entries between terraces, damp and often stepped, which is where slips actually happen
• Blue brick paving and old lime-mortared walls that high pressure damages
• Rear walls in the canal corridor carrying a green film to about waist height
• Block paving on the newer housing and redeveloped plots, cleaned by rotary machine with re-sanding quoted separately

Soft-washing old yards without blowing out lime mortar

We soft-wash almost everything in Stirchley: the solution is laid on at low pressure, kills the growth outright and then washes off, with no chance of blowing lime mortar out of an old yard wall or shifting blue brick off its bedding. Entries and steps are done by hand at the edges, since underfoot grip is the entire point. Rear walls get the same treatment up to the height the film reaches. Where there is a modern block or concrete drive on the newer housing, we use rotary pressure cleaning instead and tell you before we start whether the joints will need re-sanding, which is quoted separately.

• Soft-wash on yards, blue brick, entries and canal-side walls, with no pressure near old lime mortar
• Steps and entry edges finished by hand, since grip underfoot is the actual point of the job
• Rear walls treated to the height the green film reaches as well as the ground surface
• Rotary cleaning kept for sound modern concrete and block paving on the newer housing, with re-sanding flagged first and quoted separately

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: the full patio & driveway cleaning process.

Yards, entries and canal-side walls

The work concentrates on the terraced streets running down towards the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, where the rear elevations stay wet for three seasons out of four, and on the shared entries serving those rows. We work it in spring, when whatever the winter has grown is finally obvious. An entry belongs to two houses, so it makes sense for both sides to book it together. The newer developments occasionally give us paved courtyards, bin store surrounds and parking bays, quoted to the management company, not residents.

Yard size and years of growth in a Stirchley quote

Area and severity set the price, and Stirchley yards are small, so a straightforward back yard and entry is a modest job, and being seven minutes away we are glad to take it on its own. Do not expect the gentle method to be the quick one: the solution has to sit for a while, and steps and edges are done by hand, so time is what the money buys. Several years of growth may take two passes, which we would sooner tell you when quoting.

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Yearly, because the shade brings the growth back

Annually for yards, entries and canal-side rear walls. Permanent shade here means the growth genuinely returns within the year regardless of how well it was cleaned, and on a stepped entry the interval is about nobody falling over, before appearance comes into it. Spring is the sensible slot, once the winter has shown you what it has grown. Modern concrete and block surfaces on the newer housing stretch to a two-yearly cycle, since they get more light and drain properly.