Camden · NW5 · Patio and decking cleaning
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Dartmouth Park fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for patio and decking cleaning in Dartmouth Park NW5? We work in Dartmouth Park most weeks — steep Victorian streets between Highgate Cemetery and the eastern edge of Hampstead Heath — and price patio and decking cleaning against that reality rather than a London average. Fixed written quote from £4.50, insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
Patio and decking cleaning in Dartmouth Park NW5 is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Camden, most of them mainly Victorian. 3,395 households sit inside this NW5 patch, 72% of them flats, so we quote on access near Highgate Cemetery and Parliament Hill Fields rather than a London average.
How it works
Step 1
Concrete, natural stone, softwood or composite, roughly the area, and whether there's an outside tap or the flat needs water carried up by bowser.
Step 2
Priced per square metre for the surface you have, with oiling, re-staining or a bowser water supply shown as separate lines rather than bundled in.
Step 3
Furniture and planters moved, deck board gaps cleared of leaf litter, and algae or lichen in shaded corners given a biocide soak before washing.
Step 4
Concrete at full strength; natural stone, softwood and composite all stepped down to protect the surface, using a wide fan nozzle on composite specifically.
Step 5
Softwood decking is left to dry before any oiling; drainage outlets on roof terraces are checked clear; furniture is put back once the surface is dry underfoot.
Why choose us
Same-week across every borough, with weekend slots common through spring and early summer when garden and roof-terrace use picks up. Tufnell Park (Northern) is the nearest station, so a NW5 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Dartmouth Park, often with surface conduit, and with 18% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does in NW5, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Dartmouth Park stock goes, where 45% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Wastewater containing detergent or biocide is contained and directed away from surface water drains during the clean, and drainage outlets on roof terraces and balconies are checked and cleared as part of the visit.
One technician for a standard garden patio or deck; two for a roof terrace or balcony where water has to be carried up by bowser and furniture moved through a lift or stairwell. Steep gradients, resident permit bays and long communal stair runs in the conversions.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete flag patio, per m² | £4.50 | By area | Manufactured concrete flags take a standard rotary surface cleaner at full pressure without any risk to the finish. |
| York stone or sandstone patio, per m² | £6.50 | By area | Natural stone is more porous and softer than concrete, so it's cleaned at a lower pressure with a specialist stone-safe cleaner rather than the standard detergent. |
| Softwood decking clean, per m² | £5 | By area | Softwood boards need the pressure kept low and the nozzle kept moving, since a static jet will fur the grain and shorten the board's life. |
| Composite decking clean, per m² | £5.50 | By area | Composite boards need a wide fan nozzle and a lower bar pressure than timber, since a narrow jet can strip the capping layer that gives composite its colour and grip. |
| Decking oiling or re-staining after cleaning, per m² | £4 | Added to visit | Softwood decking needs re-oiling once dry to stay weatherproof; this is priced as a separate pass because it can only start once the boards have fully dried out. |
| Roof terrace or balcony deck, per m² | £7 | By area | No mains tap on most roof terraces means water is carried up by bowser, and drainage outlets have to be checked and cleared as part of the visit, not just the deck surface. |
Concrete flag patio, per m²
£4.50 · By area
Manufactured concrete flags take a standard rotary surface cleaner at full pressure without any risk to the finish.
York stone or sandstone patio, per m²
£6.50 · By area
Natural stone is more porous and softer than concrete, so it's cleaned at a lower pressure with a specialist stone-safe cleaner rather than the standard detergent.
Softwood decking clean, per m²
£5 · By area
Softwood boards need the pressure kept low and the nozzle kept moving, since a static jet will fur the grain and shorten the board's life.
Composite decking clean, per m²
£5.50 · By area
Composite boards need a wide fan nozzle and a lower bar pressure than timber, since a narrow jet can strip the capping layer that gives composite its colour and grip.
Decking oiling or re-staining after cleaning, per m²
£4 · Added to visit
Softwood decking needs re-oiling once dry to stay weatherproof; this is priced as a separate pass because it can only start once the boards have fully dried out.
Roof terrace or balcony deck, per m²
£7 · By area
No mains tap on most roof terraces means water is carried up by bowser, and drainage outlets have to be checked and cleared as part of the visit, not just the deck surface.
Domestic prices are the total you pay; managing agents and landlords are invoiced plus VAT at 20%. Furniture moved off the patio or deck before cleaning and put back after, and clearing debris from drainage gaps between deck boards, are included. Where a bowser or extended hose run is needed for a flat with no outside tap, that's shown as its own line.
Scope
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Coverage
Also in this area
Block paving, resin-bound and imprinted concrete driveways cleaned, resanded and sealed.
Front paths, side returns and communal walkways cleaned without disturbing loose flags.
The wider outdoor jet washing hub covering every hard surface we clean.
New garden furniture built and levelled on the patio or deck once it's clean.
Two crew and a Luton or tipper; three where everything has to be carried through a hallway.
A full top-to-bottom clean of the property once it has been emptied.
Cuttings, turf and soil taken to a licensed composting site rather than to landfill.
Working in Dartmouth Park
In Dartmouth Park (NW5) the split is 72% flats to 28% houses over 3,395 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
With 18% private renting against 45% owner-occupied, most NW5 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Dartmouth Park, often with surface conduit, and with 18% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does, so the fixing that matters in Dartmouth Park is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Dartmouth Park stock goes, where 45% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Dartmouth Park sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — steep Victorian streets between Highgate Cemetery and the eastern edge of Hampstead Heath — which is why a NW5 quote is not a Camden average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: steep gradients, resident permit bays and long communal stair runs in the conversions. Tufnell Park (Northern) is the nearest station, and one technician for a standard garden patio or deck; two for a roof terrace or balcony where water has to be carried up by bowser and furniture moved through a lift or stairwell.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Dartmouth Park and what they live in decides how patio and decking cleaning is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Highgate West neighbourhood itself — not Camden-wide averages, and not estimates.
7,745
Residents
Highgate West neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,395
Households
Median age 41.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
35.3%
Privately rented
18.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Highgate West (E02000166) — the published geography that covers Dartmouth Park, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the NW5 district: 51.5517, -0.1451 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
50 in Dartmouth Park, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked around Tufnell Park (Northern), with a median age of 42 in this neighbourhood. Surface material first — natural stone and composite decking cost more per square metre than concrete because both need a lower pressure that takes longer to cover the same area — then access, since a roof terrace with no outside tap needs water carried up rather than run from a hose in Dartmouth Park — and this being a short walk from Tufnell Park (Northern), with 3,395 households on this patch.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on this side of Camden, with 3,395 households on this patch. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Dartmouth Park most weeks across NW5, with a median age of 42 in this neighbourhood.
In Dartmouth Park, 5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on Camden bookings, with 72% of homes here being flats. That covers patio and decking cleaning on Dartmouth Park jobs too.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the streets near Highgate Cemetery and Parliament Hill Fields. With 72% of Dartmouth Park homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm for Dartmouth Park (NW5) addresses, with 72% of homes here being flats, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Replacing rotten, cracked or delaminating deck boards — that's a repair job, quoted separately by our decking team; Repointing or re-bedding natural stone patio slabs that have come loose or sunk; Deep oil or paint staining that has soaked into porous stone and may need professional poulticing rather than a surface wash; Structural work on raised decking or a roof terrace balustrade in this 72% flats neighbourhood — and this being a short walk from Tufnell Park (Northern), with 36% social-rented stock nearby, which needs a qualified joiner or builder. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Dartmouth Park NW5 price you agree is the price you pay on Camden bookings, with 28% of Dartmouth Park homes being houses.
All three. With 18% of Dartmouth Park privately rented and 45% owner-occupied, roughly half the NW5 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door across NW5 — and Camden parking rules in play, with this being a short walk from Tufnell Park (Northern).
Highgate Cemetery and Parliament Hill Fields is the marker we route to on NW5 jobs — and Camden parking rules in play, with a median age of 42 in this neighbourhood, and steep gradients, resident permit bays and long communal stair runs in the conversions. A NW5 slot added to an existing Camden round usually lands the same week rather than the next on the streets near Highgate Cemetery and Parliament Hill Fields, with 3,395 households on this patch.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Dartmouth Park NW5 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of camden.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
