Exterior cleaning in Cadnam and Bartley
Roof moss, green render, blocked gutters and slippery paving across Cadnam, Bartley and Copythorne, cleaned by the method the surface can take.
The site visit is free and so is the written itemised quote. Thomas Hannen prices every job himself.
Out on the forest edge at Cadnam and Bartley the problem is almost never dirt. It is green. Algae on the shaded side of the render, moss packed down between the roof tiles, and gutters carrying half of last autumn. A soft wash and a proper clear out sorts most of it, and nothing goes near a surface at a pressure it cannot take.
Three things get us called out around Cadnam and Bartley. Gutters running over in the first proper autumn gale, because a house standing under oak and beech fills them several times faster than one on an open estate. A roof that has gone green on the slope you look at every time you come up the drive. And block paving or a slab patio that has darkened, grown weed in every joint and turned slippery by the back door.
None of that means doing the whole outside of the house. We come out and look at each surface on its own, then tell you which of them genuinely needs work this year and which will keep. The site visit is free and so is the written itemised quote. If a gutter clearing and one elevation washed down is all it wants, that is what the price will say.
The work
What we get called to on the forest edge
Roofs, and mostly moss. A lot of the houses out here went up in the late sixties and seventies with concrete interlocking tile, and that tile holds moss the way a sponge holds water. Under trees it never dries out. We take the bulk off dry with a scrape and a brush, clear it out of the valleys and off the ridge, then treat what is left so the spores die instead of coming straight back. What we will not do is jet wash a concrete tile: the pressure strips the surface off, lifts the laps and pushes water underneath, and you get a clean roof that leaks.
It is rarely the gutter that blocks first. It is the outlet at the head of the downpipe, and once that is packed with leaf and needle the whole run backs up and comes over the fascia. Clearing is from a ladder or a pole vac depending on the house, the valleys and any flat roof outlet get done at the same time, and the debris leaves with us rather than going on your beds. Under this much tree cover, twice a year is honest advice and once a year is the minimum.
The shaded elevations go green early and the ones facing the lane pick up road film on top of it. That is a soft wash. Nearly a quarter of the houses out here predate 1919, so there is more soft lime mortar about than people expect, and it gets no lance at all, because force is what takes a joint out. Block paving is washed, weeded and re-sanded with kiln dried sand, and the planting nearest the wall is wetted and sheeted before anything starts.
How it runs
From your call to a written price
What you get is an itemised sheet: surface, method, protection, access and disposal, each on its own line. Thomas Hannen comes out to price it and the visit is free. Washing something is maintenance and needs nobody's permission. Coating it is different, so if you are thinking about paint or a sealer afterwards, check the address on the National Park Authority's property map first, because Cadnam and Bartley sit inside the National Park even though neither has a conservation area of its own. There are ten listed entries around here, and on a listed building the method itself can matter, which the Authority's heritage guidance covers.
Cost
What decides the price of a clean
Area alone tells you nothing here. The same wall can take an afternoon or twenty minutes depending what has grown on it. A bungalow off one of the lanes, a two storey detached set well back behind trees, and an old brick cottage tight to the road are three different jobs before the kit is off the van, and work at height rules settle whether a pole reaches. If you are weighing two prices, find out which surfaces get a biocide and which get a rinse, and what happens to the water.
If there is a date
A viewing, a visit or a deadline
Phone rather than fill in the form. Cadnam is a straightforward run for us up the M27, so getting out to look before you commit to anything is easy. Autumn gutter work under this much tree cover books up early, so ring in September rather than November if the date matters. Anything outside Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, we arrange.
Worth knowing
Clean it, or change it, are two different questions here
Everything in this village sits inside the New Forest National Park, and the thing the Authority takes an interest in is how a building looks. That line falls in a useful place for you. Cleaning puts back the surface that was already there, so a roof clean, a render wash or a drive clean is maintenance and nobody needs to be asked. The moment a clean turns into a recoat, a masonry paint or a coloured sealer, you have changed the appearance of the building, and that is a different conversation entirely.
So we price the two separately and never roll them into one figure called a restoration. Get the surface clean, look at it dry, and then decide whether it actually needs coating, because a good proportion of the render we wash here turns out to be perfectly sound underneath and wanted nothing but the green off.
If you do want it coated, check the property first, because a listed cottage or an unlisted building in a sensitive spot are not the same position. On the older cottages there is a second reason to go carefully: pressure on soft brick and lime mortar takes the joint out along with the algae, and repointing a wall costs many times what cleaning it does.
Who you are dealing with
A local firm you can check
We work across the New Forest edge from Cadnam and Bartley through Copythorne and Netley Marsh, out to Lyndhurst and Minstead, and the SO40 postcodes either side of the A31. Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719, which you can look up in a minute. Thomas Hannen's business, and he is the one who comes out to price the job, not a salesman. A verified customer's 10 out of 10 on Checkatrade. The visit and the written quote are both free.
Questions
Cadnam and Bartley questions we get asked
Twice a year on the gutters, or is once enough?
Twice, for most houses at Cadnam and Bartley. Woodland and heath run straight up to the gardens, so there is a heavy autumn fall and then a second load of seed and blossom in spring that sets like felt in the bottom of the gutter. 43.5% of dwellings here are detached, which means gutter on all four sides and usually one hidden run at the back that nobody has looked into for years.
There is no conservation area here. Does the Park still matter?
For a wash, no. Cadnam and Bartley has no conservation area of its own, although the New Forest National Park Authority remains the planning authority and does scrutinise anything that changes how a building reads from outside. Cleaning does not change that. There are 10 listed entries locally, and on one of those we keep to hand work and ask before applying anything that stays on the surface.
Can block paving be cleaned where the ground drains badly?
Yes, provided the slurry is handled properly. The ground here does not carry water away quickly, so flushing a drive into the borders leaves silt and a bog behind. We lift the growth, brush the mess off the surface into a heap and cart it away instead of washing it into the soil. Once the joints have dried the paving is re-sanded, which is what stops the blocks rocking under a car.
Do you need scaffold, or will a pole reach?
A pole reaches most of what we do around Copythorne. A quarter of the dwellings here are bungalows and nearly half are detached, so there is room to stand back and work off the ground with a water fed pole on gutters, fascias and render. Roof work goes off a ladder at the eaves or a light tower. Scaffold only goes up where the ground will not hold a tower safely.
What changes on the older cottages round here?
The pressure comes right down and the chemistry does more of the work. 23.5% of the stock at Cadnam and Bartley predates 1919, so soft brick, lime joints and old render are common enough that we assume them until we see otherwise. On those we hand wash, keep water off the wall head and leave a biocide to break the growth down slowly rather than blasting it away in an afternoon.
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