Islington · EC1V · Patio and decking cleaning
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Old Street fitters · Fixed written pricesPatio and decking cleaning for Old Street (EC1V) households — 4,949 of them, 98% 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
Booked mostly by social-housing-led households around Old Street, patio and decking cleaning here covers supply-free fitting from £4.50. With 98% of Old Street's 4,949 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in EC1V 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. Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards.
Same-week across every borough, with weekend slots common through spring and early summer when garden and roof-terrace use picks up. Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) is the nearest station, so a EC1V visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Old Street, often with surface conduit — measured on the walk in from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) rather than assumed from a map in EC1V, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in EC1V, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — which is why London Borough of Islington kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
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
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 Old Street
The EC1V stock around Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground is post-war. ONS records 98% flats, 2% houses and 4,949 households in Old Street.
Owner-occupation runs at 19% in Old Street, so alongside the 28% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Old Street, often with surface conduit — measured on the walk in from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) rather than assumed from a map, so the fixing that matters in Old Street is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in EC1V, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — which is why London Borough of Islington kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
Anyone who knows Old Street knows the pattern near Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground: the roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe. We plan the EC1V visit around it. Old Street sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Old Street (Northern, Great Northern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Old Street 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 Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood itself — not Islington-wide averages, and not estimates.
10,675
Residents
Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,949
Households
Median age 31.5
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
38.9%
Privately rented
28.3%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Old Street & St Luke's (E02000576) — the published geography that covers Old Street, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the EC1V district: 51.5268, -0.0978 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
50 in Old Street, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked across EC1V, with 98% of homes here being flats. 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 on the streets near Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground, with Islington parking rules in play.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the Old Street rounds, with this being London Borough of Islington territory. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Old Street most weeks on EC1V jobs, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on EC1V jobs, with 39% one-person households here.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the streets near Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground. With 98% of Old Street homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm across EC1V — and 28% of EC1V homes being privately rented, with this being London Borough of Islington territory, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Wastewater containing detergent or biocide is contained and directed away from surface water drains during the clean across EC1V, with 28% of EC1V homes being privately rented, and drainage outlets on roof terraces and balconies are checked and cleared as part of the visit. That paperwork is what most Islington letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat around Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), with Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground a few streets away.
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 around Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), with 19% owner-occupation locally, which needs a qualified joiner or builder. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Old Street EC1V price you agree is the price you pay in Old Street, with 52% social-rented stock nearby.
All three. With 28% of Old Street privately rented and 19% owner-occupied, roughly half the EC1V diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on EC1V jobs — and 19% owner-occupation locally, with Islington parking rules in play.
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Free quote · 1-hour reply
Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Old Street EC1V jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of islington.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
