City of London · EC2 · Patio and decking cleaning
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Moorgate fitters · Fixed written pricesMoorgate EC2 is a regular stop on our City of London round. Office core around Finsbury Circus and Liverpool Street, with a small resident population above the shops, so patio and decking cleaning here is quoted on the street the job is on — from £4.50, in writing, with insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
Booked mostly by renter-heavy households around Moorgate, patio and decking cleaning here covers supply-free fitting from £4.50. With 98% of Moorgate's 4,914 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in EC2 shape the slot length we hold.
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. Congestion Charge, weekday loading windows before 10:00, and building managers who require insurance documents.
Same-week across every borough, with weekend slots common through spring and early summer when garden and roof-terrace use picks up. Moorgate (Northern, Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, so a EC2 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — the reality on the streets around Finsbury Circus Gardens in EC2, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — measured on the walk in from Moorgate (Northern, Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map.
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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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 Moorgate
Census 2021 puts Moorgate at 4,914 households with a median age of 36.9. The recent new-build stock is renter-heavy, which is why 2% houses and 98% flats need different handling in EC2.
Owner-occupation runs at 37% in Moorgate, so alongside the 48% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Walls are with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — the reality on the streets around Finsbury Circus Gardens, so the fixing that matters in Moorgate is chosen on site — the usual failure here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — measured on the walk in from Moorgate (Northern, Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map.
Anyone who knows Moorgate knows the pattern near Finsbury Circus Gardens: office core around Finsbury Circus and Liverpool Street, with a small resident population above the shops. We plan the EC2 visit around it. Moorgate 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: congestion Charge, weekday loading windows before 10:00, and building managers who require insurance documents. Moorgate (Northern, Elizabeth line) 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 Moorgate 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 City of London neighbourhood itself — not City of London-wide averages, and not estimates.
8,583
Residents
City of London neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,914
Households
Median age 36.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
51%
Privately rented
48.3%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood City of London (E02000001) — the published geography that covers Moorgate, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the EC2 district: 51.5191, -0.0925 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
50 in Moorgate, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked on this side of City of London, with 48% of EC2 homes being privately rented. 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 Moorgate — and 98% of homes here being flats, with Finsbury Circus Gardens a few streets away.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in this 98% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Moorgate most weeks around Moorgate (Northern, Elizabeth line), with 4,914 households on this patch.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level for Moorgate (EC2) addresses, with 4,914 households on this patch.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 98% flats neighbourhood. With 98% of Moorgate homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on City of London bookings — and 48% of EC2 homes being privately rented, with 15% social-rented stock nearby, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
All three. With 48% of Moorgate privately rented and 37% owner-occupied, roughly half the EC2 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door across EC2 — and this being a short walk from Moorgate (Northern, Elizabeth line), with 2% of Moorgate homes being houses.
Finsbury Circus Gardens is the marker we route to, with 37% owner-occupation locally, and congestion Charge, weekday loading windows before 10:00 on the streets near Finsbury Circus Gardens, and building managers who require insurance documents. A EC2 slot added to an existing City of London round usually lands the same week rather than the next on City of London bookings, with 15% 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 on the streets near Finsbury Circus Gardens, with Finsbury Circus Gardens a few streets away. Moorgate sits close to Moorgate (Northern, Elizabeth line) for Moorgate (EC2) addresses, with 2% of Moorgate homes being houses — and 4,914 households on this patch, so we can usually add a EC2 job to an existing City of London 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. Moorgate EC2 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of city of london.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
