Camden · NW6 · Patio and decking cleaning
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local West Hampstead fitters · Fixed written pricesPatio and decking cleaning for West Hampstead (NW6) households — 4,309 of them, 88% in flats. From £4.50 fixed, 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 Insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
Patio and decking cleaning in West Hampstead NW6 is a fixed-price visit for renter-heavy homes in Camden, most of them mainly Victorian. 4,309 households sit inside this NW6 patch, 88% of them flats, so we quote on access near West End Lane 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
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. Very tight parking, narrow terraced streets and flats up two to four flights without lifts.
Same-week across every borough, with weekend slots common through spring and early summer when garden and roof-terrace use picks up. West Hampstead (Jubilee, Overground, Thameslink) is the nearest station, so a NW6 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — with 21% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first in NW6, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in NW6, which crumbles the key and drops the panel — which is what a 88% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering West Hampstead actually produces.
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.
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.
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Coverage
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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 West Hampstead
Census 2021 puts West Hampstead at 4,309 households with a median age of 33.1. The mainly Victorian stock is renter-heavy, which is why 12% houses and 88% flats need different handling in NW6.
Private renting sits at 49% and owner-occupation at 30%; the first group books patio and decking cleaning at short notice, the second plans it.
West Hampstead substrates run to with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — with 21% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in NW6, which crumbles the key and drops the panel — which is what a 88% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering West Hampstead actually produces is the mistake that costs a NW6 customer twice.
Anyone who knows West Hampstead knows the pattern near West End Lane: three stations, a busy high street and streets of red-brick Victorian conversions. We plan the NW6 visit around it. West Hampstead sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: very tight parking, narrow terraced streets and flats up two to four flights without lifts. West Hampstead (Jubilee, Overground, Thameslink) 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 West Hampstead 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 West Hampstead neighbourhood itself — not Camden-wide averages, and not estimates.
9,082
Residents
West Hampstead neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,309
Households
Median age 33.1
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
39.6%
Privately rented
48.5%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood West Hampstead (E02000175) — the published geography that covers West Hampstead, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the NW6 district: 51.5422, -0.1962 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
50 in West Hampstead, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked on this side of Camden, with a median age of 33 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 West Hampstead — and 21% social-rented stock nearby, with this being London Borough of Camden territory.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the West Hampstead rounds, with 30% owner-occupation locally. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in West Hampstead most weeks for West Hampstead (NW6) addresses, with 21% social-rented stock nearby.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in West Hampstead, with this being a short walk from West Hampstead (Jubilee, Overground, Thameslink).
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on this side of Camden. With 88% of West Hampstead homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in this 88% flats neighbourhood, with 88% of homes here being flats — and 49% of NW6 homes being privately rented, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
All three. With 49% of West Hampstead privately rented and 30% owner-occupied, roughly half the NW6 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door across NW6 — and 4,309 households on this patch, with 12% of West Hampstead homes being houses.
West End Lane is the marker we route to on this side of Camden, with 30% owner-occupation locally, and very tight parking, narrow terraced streets and flats up two to four flights without lifts. A NW6 slot added to an existing Camden round usually lands the same week rather than the next on NW6 jobs, with 21% social-rented stock nearby.
Same-week across every borough, with weekend slots common through spring and early summer when garden and roof-terrace use picks up for West Hampstead (NW6) addresses, with a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood. West Hampstead sits close to West Hampstead (Jubilee, Overground, Thameslink) in West Hampstead — and 4,309 households on this patch, with this being London Borough of Camden territory, so we can usually add a NW6 job to an existing Camden round at short notice.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. West Hampstead NW6 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.
