Southwark · SE22 · Patio and decking cleaning
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local East Dulwich fitters · Fixed written pricesPatio and decking cleaning in East Dulwich SE22, Southwark, from £4.50. Lordship Lane's shops and rows of bay-fronted Victorian family houses, which is why our SE22 quotes account for narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
Overview
This page prices patio and decking cleaning for East Dulwich SE22 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 25% privately rented and 3,337 households in total. Work starts at £4.50, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Southwark permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
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. Narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton.
Same-week across every borough, with weekend slots common through spring and early summer when garden and roof-terrace use picks up. East Dulwich (Thameslink) is the nearest station, so a SE22 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect solid London stock brick in East Dulwich, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — measured on the walk in from East Dulwich (Thameslink) rather than assumed from a map in SE22, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in SE22, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — with 16% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first.
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.
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 East Dulwich
Census 2021 puts East Dulwich at 3,337 households with a median age of 36. The mainly Victorian stock is owner-occupier-led, which is why 57% houses and 43% flats need different handling in SE22.
Private renting sits at 25% and owner-occupation at 58%; the first group books patio and decking cleaning at short notice, the second plans it.
East Dulwich substrates run to solid London stock brick in East Dulwich, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — measured on the walk in from East Dulwich (Thameslink) rather than assumed from a map. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in SE22, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — with 16% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the mistake that costs a SE22 customer twice.
Anyone who knows East Dulwich knows the pattern near Dulwich Park: lordship Lane's shops and rows of bay-fronted Victorian family houses. We plan the SE22 visit around it. East Dulwich 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, narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton — 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 East Dulwich (Thameslink).
Area at a glance
Who lives in East Dulwich 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 East Dulwich neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
8,296
Residents
East Dulwich neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,337
Households
Median age 36
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
25.6%
Privately rented
25.3%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood East Dulwich (E02000836) — the published geography that covers East Dulwich, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE22 district: 51.4544, -0.0724 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
50 in East Dulwich, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked, with 43% 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 around East Dulwich (Thameslink) — and 16% social-rented stock nearby, with Southwark parking rules in play.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions across SE22, with 58% owner-occupation locally. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in East Dulwich most weeks on this side of Southwark, with 3,337 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 on SE22 jobs, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in around East Dulwich (Thameslink). With 43% of East Dulwich homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in East Dulwich, with 25% of SE22 homes being privately rented, 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 in East Dulwich — and a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood, with Southwark parking rules in play, and drainage outlets on roof terraces and balconies are checked and cleared as part of the visit. That paperwork is what most Southwark letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat around East Dulwich (Thameslink), with 26% one-person households here.
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 43% flats neighbourhood, with this being a short walk from East Dulwich (Thameslink) — and Dulwich Park a few streets away, which needs a qualified joiner or builder. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the East Dulwich SE22 price you agree is the price you pay around East Dulwich (Thameslink), with 58% owner-occupation locally.
All three. With 25% of East Dulwich privately rented and 58% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE22 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on the streets near Dulwich Park, with 58% owner-occupation locally — and 16% social-rented stock nearby.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. East Dulwich SE22 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of southwark.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
