Southwark · SE15 · Patio and decking cleaning
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Nunhead fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for patio and decking cleaning in Nunhead SE15? We work in Nunhead most weeks — cemetery, hill views and a quiet village green between Peckham and Brockley — 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
Patio and decking cleaning in Nunhead SE15 is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Southwark, most of them mainly Victorian. 7,127 households sit inside this SE15 patch, 58% of them flats, so we quote on access near Nunhead Cemetery 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
Same-week across every borough, with weekend slots common through spring and early summer when garden and roof-terrace use picks up. Nunhead (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE15 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, which is why London Borough of Southwark kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded in SE15, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Nunhead stock goes, where 41% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
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. Steep hill streets, narrow railway bridges and permit bays near the station.
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 Nunhead
Nunhead SE15 is mainly Victorian and social-housing-led: 58% of homes here are flats and 42% are houses, across 7,127 households (ONS Census 2021).
Because 20% of Nunhead is privately rented and 39% socially rented, a lot of SE15 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Nunhead substrates run to often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, which is why London Borough of Southwark kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Nunhead stock goes, where 41% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a SE15 customer twice.
Nunhead 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 — cemetery, hill views and a quiet village green between Peckham and Brockley — which is why a SE15 quote is not a Southwark average.
On access, steep hill streets, narrow railway bridges and permit bays near the station — 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 Nunhead (Southeastern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Nunhead 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 Nunhead North and Nunhead South & Newlands neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
17,370
Residents
Nunhead North and Nunhead South & Newlands neighbourhood, Census 2021
7,127
Households
Median age 35.1
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
30.1%
Privately rented
19.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Nunhead North, Nunhead South & Newlands (E02000832, E02000835) — the published geography that covers Nunhead, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE15 district: 51.4728, -0.0656 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
50 in Nunhead, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked, with 30% one-person households here. 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 for Nunhead (SE15) addresses — and 42% of Nunhead homes being houses, with Southwark parking rules in play.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in Nunhead, with Southwark parking rules in play. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Nunhead most weeks around Nunhead (Southeastern), with 30% one-person households here.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on the streets near Nunhead Cemetery, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on SE15 jobs. With 58% of Nunhead homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the Nunhead rounds — and a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood, with 30% one-person households here, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Nunhead Cemetery is the marker we route to for Nunhead (SE15) addresses, with this being a short walk from Nunhead (Southeastern), and steep hill streets, narrow railway bridges and permit bays near the station. A SE15 slot added to an existing Southwark round usually lands the same week rather than the next in this 58% flats neighbourhood, with 41% owner-occupation locally.
Same-week across every borough, with weekend slots common through spring and early summer when garden and roof-terrace use picks up in Nunhead, with 58% of homes here being flats. Nunhead sits close to Nunhead (Southeastern), with Southwark parking rules in play, so we can usually add a SE15 job to an existing Southwark round at short notice on Southwark bookings.
Steep hill streets, narrow railway bridges and permit bays near the station for Nunhead (SE15) addresses. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Southwark it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on the streets near Nunhead Cemetery — and Nunhead Cemetery a few streets away, with 7,127 households on this patch.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Nunhead SE15 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.
