Cladding Cleaning in Sandwich

The walled town and its listed streets

In central Sandwich the constraint is space and the fabric itself. Older render, brick and painted timber are assessed first and treated gently, with everything nearby protected before anything is applied. Where there is no room to stand equipment, the honest answer is a smaller setup and more time rather than a method that risks the building, and where a clean could change a historic finish it is worth checking consent first.

Discovery Park and the surrounding units

Laboratory, office and light industrial units around the park tend to have long coated elevations, plenty of glazing and a lot of people arriving each morning. The practical answer is early starts on entrance areas and glazing frames, then working the main elevations through the day with the car park and footpaths managed section by section.

• Entrances and glazing cleaned before the working day
• Elevations worked in sections so parking stays usable
• Coated panels cleaned at controlled pressure
• Ground level and canopy details finished last

Low-lying ground and estuary air

Sandwich sits on low marshy ground, and the 1953 floods covered the whole area around the town; extensive flood zones remain on the Environment Agency maps. That damp, low-lying setting, combined with estuary air drifting in from Sandwich Bay, means algae and salt deposits build readily on exposed elevations, particularly on the edges of town nearest the bay.