City of London · EC4 · Patio and decking cleaning
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local St Paul's fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for patio and decking cleaning in St Paul's EC4? We work in St Paul's most weeks — cathedral precinct, One New Change shopping and the streets running down to the Millennium Bridge — 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
Booked mostly by renter-heavy households around St Paul's, patio and decking cleaning here covers supply-free fitting from £4.50. With 98% of St Paul's's 4,914 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in EC4 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
Same-week across every borough, with weekend slots common through spring and early summer when garden and roof-terrace use picks up. St Paul's (Central) is the nearest station, so a EC4 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect with metal stud partitions between rooms — and dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, which is why City of London Corporation kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded in EC4, 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, as the St Paul's stock goes, the reality on the streets around St Paul's Cathedral.
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. Pedestrianised zones and camera-enforced streets; loading needs a permit from the Corporation.
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 St Paul's
St Paul's EC4 is post-war and renter-heavy: 98% of homes here are flats and 2% are houses, across 4,914 households (ONS Census 2021).
Because 48% of St Paul's is privately rented and 15% socially rented, a lot of EC4 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect with metal stud partitions between rooms — and dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, which is why City of London Corporation kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded behind the plaster in EC4. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, as the St Paul's stock goes, the reality on the streets around St Paul's Cathedral is the fault we are called back to undo.
St Paul's 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 — cathedral precinct, One New Change shopping and the streets running down to the Millennium Bridge — which is why a EC4 quote is not a City of London average.
Pedestrianised zones and camera-enforced streets; loading needs a permit from the Corporation. Nearest station is St Paul's (Central), 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 St Paul's 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 St Paul's, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the EC4 district: 51.5148, -0.1015 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
50 in St Paul's, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked around St Paul's (Central), with a median age of 37 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 St Paul's — and 51% one-person households here, with 4,914 households on this patch.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on EC4 jobs, with 4,914 households on this patch. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in St Paul's most weeks on the St Paul's rounds, with 37% owner-occupation locally.
In St Paul's, 5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on this side of City of London, with this being City of London Corporation territory. Ask for it in writing before the EC4 visit and it is on the job sheet.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the streets near St Paul's Cathedral. With 98% of St Paul's homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm for St Paul's (EC4) addresses, with City of London parking rules in play — and this being City of London Corporation territory, 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 for St Paul's (EC4) addresses — and St Paul's Cathedral a few streets away, with 98% of homes here being flats, which needs a qualified joiner or builder. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the St Paul's EC4 price you agree is the price you pay on the streets near St Paul's Cathedral, with this being City of London Corporation territory.
All three. With 48% of St Paul's privately rented and 37% owner-occupied, roughly half the EC4 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on this side of City of London — and St Paul's Cathedral a few streets away, with 4,914 households on this patch.
St Paul's Cathedral is the marker we route to on EC4 jobs, with this being City of London Corporation territory, and pedestrianised zones and camera-enforced streets; loading needs a permit from the Corporation. A EC4 slot added to an existing City of London round usually lands the same week rather than the next around St Paul's (Central), with a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. St Paul's EC4 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.
