London driveway cleaning · North London
Driveway cleaning across Barnet, from EN4, EN5 and N11 outwards. London's largest borough by population — semi-detached suburbia, Hampstead Garden Suburb and green belt at the top, and that is what shapes every quote we write here.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tarmac or plain concrete driveway, up to 20m² | £120 | 1–1.5 hrs | A flat, sealed surface with no joints to protect, so it's the fastest and lowest-risk driveway to hot-water wash at full pressure. |
| Block paving clean only, per m² | £4.50 | By area | Block paving has hundreds of joints per square metre; the pressure is kept low enough not to blow the jointing sand out before we've had the chance to resand it. |
| Block paving clean and re-sand with kiln-dried sand, per m² | £7.50 | By area | Kiln-dried sand has to be brushed in and vibrated down into every joint once the paving is fully dry, which is what actually stops the blocks rocking loose over winter. |
| Resin-bound driveway clean, per m² | £5.50 | By area | Resin-bound surfaces are cleaned at a lower pressure with a soft rotary head, because a standard turbo nozzle can strip aggregate out of the resin binder. |
| Pattern-imprinted concrete clean and reseal, per m² | £6.50 | By area | Imprinted concrete needs its sealant reapplied after cleaning or the colour fades and the surface starts absorbing oil and tyre marks again within a season. |
| Oil stain or moss treatment, per stain or per m² | £15 / £3 | Added to visit | Oil needs a degreaser dwell time before the hot-water wash; moss and algae need a biocide treatment first so it doesn't just regrow from the roots left in the joints. |
Tarmac or plain concrete driveway, up to 20m²
£120 · 1–1.5 hrs
A flat, sealed surface with no joints to protect, so it's the fastest and lowest-risk driveway to hot-water wash at full pressure.
Block paving clean only, per m²
£4.50 · By area
Block paving has hundreds of joints per square metre; the pressure is kept low enough not to blow the jointing sand out before we've had the chance to resand it.
Block paving clean and re-sand with kiln-dried sand, per m²
£7.50 · By area
Kiln-dried sand has to be brushed in and vibrated down into every joint once the paving is fully dry, which is what actually stops the blocks rocking loose over winter.
Resin-bound driveway clean, per m²
£5.50 · By area
Resin-bound surfaces are cleaned at a lower pressure with a soft rotary head, because a standard turbo nozzle can strip aggregate out of the resin binder.
Pattern-imprinted concrete clean and reseal, per m²
£6.50 · By area
Imprinted concrete needs its sealant reapplied after cleaning or the colour fades and the surface starts absorbing oil and tyre marks again within a season.
Oil stain or moss treatment, per stain or per m²
£15 / £3 · Added to visit
Oil needs a degreaser dwell time before the hot-water wash; moss and algae need a biocide treatment first so it doesn't just regrow from the roots left in the joints.
Domestic prices are the total you pay; landlord, letting agent and managing agent invoices are plus VAT at 20%. Sweeping up loose debris, bagging spent sand and a rinse-down of adjoining paths disturbed by the work are included. Where a parking permit or bay suspension is needed to run hoses from the van it is itemised in the written quote.
Working in Barnet
What our crews walk into in Barnet is 1930s semis with bay windows, mock-tudor detached houses, garden-suburb arts and crafts homes and new towers at colindale, and the mix changes street by street — Colindale (NW9), East Finchley (N2) and Finchley (N3) each behave differently on the day.
Parking is the job before the job here: mostly driveway parking, but golders green and finchley central have tight cpzs and busy a-road frontages. Locally that means every new block requires booked goods lifts and loading bays; estate roads are gated and narrower terraced streets near the station with permit bays; driveways further out. Barnet sits outside the Congestion Charge zone, so only ULEZ applies to the van and the quote is that much simpler.
Several streets in Barnet sit inside a conservation area where the front boundary treatment, including a stone or brick driveway, is part of what the designation protects. London Borough of Barnet does not usually need to be told about a clean, but jet washing at too high a pressure can strip old lime mortar joints on a period surface, which is a repair cost, not a cleaning one — we drop the pressure on anything older than standard concrete block paving.
Coaching villages along the Great North Road, filled in by Metroland semis after the Northern line arrived in the 1930s. That history is why Barnet property behaves the way it does today.
Scope
Method
Step 1
Tarmac, block paving, resin-bound or imprinted concrete, and roughly how many square metres — that sets both the pressure setting and the price.
Step 2
Cleaning, any re-sanding or resealing and the tip fee for spent sand are shown as separate lines rather than folded into one number.
Step 3
A biocide is applied to joints and shaded corners before washing, because pressure alone leaves roots behind that regrow within weeks.
Step 4
Hot water for tarmac and concrete; a stepped-down pressure and softer head for block paving, resin-bound and imprinted surfaces.
Step 5
Kiln-dried sand is brushed and vibrated into block paving joints once dry; sealant is reapplied on resin-bound and imprinted concrete driveways that include it.
Coverage
Also in this borough
Front paths, side returns and communal walkways cleaned without disturbing loose flags.
York stone, sandstone, composite and softwood decking cleaned at the right pressure for the surface.
The wider outdoor jet washing hub covering every hard surface we clean.
Full internal clean to the same visit if the property is changing hands.
A full top-to-bottom clean of the property once it has been emptied.
Rubble, plasterboard and strip-out waste cleared with waste transfer notes issued.
Tarmac or plain concrete driveway, up to 20m² starts at £120 in Barnet, and the ladder runs up to £15 / £3 for the largest job on the table above. Surface type first, then area. Block paving and resin-bound surfaces cost more per square metre than plain concrete because the lower pressure needed takes longer to cover the same area, and re-sanding or resealing is a second pass, not an add-on to the wash. The borough is outside the Congestion Charge zone, so there is no charge to pass on — only ULEZ, which our vans are compliant with.
We cover the whole borough: EN4, EN5, N11, N12, N14, N2, N20, N3, NW11 and NW4 and the rest of the Barnet outward codes. On the ground that includes Colindale, East Finchley, Finchley, Friern Barnet and New Southgate, Golders Green and Hendon.
Same-week across every borough, with the pressure and nozzle setting confirmed from your photos before the technician is booked so it isn't decided on arrival. North London is covered by crews already working in the borough, so travel time is not billed on top.
Mostly driveway parking, but Golders Green and Finchley Central have tight CPZs and busy A-road frontages. Where a permit or a bay suspension is needed we arrange it with London Borough of Barnet and show the cost in the quote before you agree it. Nothing is added afterwards.
Yes. 1930s semis with bay windows, mock-Tudor detached houses, garden-suburb Arts and Crafts homes and new towers at Colindale is exactly the stock we work in daily. Where there is no lift, the crew size is set by the floor level at quote stage, so a third-floor walk-up is priced as a third-floor walk-up rather than re-quoted on the doorstep.
Wastewater containing detergent or biocide is contained and directed away from surface water drains during the clean, in line with water company trade effluent guidance, rather than allowed to run off into the road gutter. Certificates go out with the booking confirmation, which is what London Borough of Barnet tenancies and most local managing agents ask for.
One technician and a van-mounted hot-water pressure washer for most driveways; two on larger block-paving jobs where re-sanding is included, since brushing sand in is a second task run alongside the wash. Vehicles are ULEZ-compliant, which matters in every Barnet postcode, and the crew carries everything needed to complete the job in one visit.
Replacing cracked, sunken or missing block paving units — that's a re-lay job, quoted separately by our paving team, Structural repointing of natural stone or brick driveways, which needs a mason rather than a pressure wash and Removing oil that has soaked deep into porous stone over years, which may need professional poulticing rather than a surface treatment. If something on that list turns up in Barnet, we tell you at survey and point you at the right trade rather than taking the booking anyway.
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