Gentle, stone-safe restoration of limestone setts, gravel and natural stone. No harsh acids, no blasting. The opposite of a pressure-washing cowboy — and fully insured.
Broadway is one of the most photographed villages in England, and the reason is the stone. The wealthy wool and cloth merchants who built it dug their limestone straight out of the hills behind the village, and the result is the broad, grass-fringed High Street and The Green, lined with chestnut trees and rows of honey-coloured 16th and 17th-century cottages. That same honey limestone runs underfoot too — in the setts, the flagged courtyards and the gravel approach drives that sit in front of half the houses in the conservation area. It is beautiful, it is valuable, and it is exactly the kind of surface a careless pressure-washer ruins.
Cotswold limestone is a soft, porous, acid-sensitive stone. Hit it with the harsh acidic or chlorine cleaners that work fine on a modern concrete drive and it bleaches, blotches and discolours — the colour the stone has taken a century to earn, gone in an afternoon. Turn a high-pressure lance on it and the surface pits and scars, water drives into the open grain, and on a frosty night that trapped water lifts the face off the stone. Most of the grey, patchy, ruined Cotswold drives you see were cleaned, not weathered — and that's the trap this page exists to keep you out of.
The location makes the cleaning necessary in the first place. Broadway sits right at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment, beneath Fish Hill and Broadway Tower, where the highest ground in the northern Cotswolds climbs to over 1,000 feet. Cold, damp, shaded air spills down off that slope and settles over the village, and the tree-lined High Street, The Green and Snowshill Road frontages pile shade on top. Moss, lichen and algae feed on exactly that — cold, damp and shade — so a Broadway drive greens up faster than open, sunny, free-draining ground a few miles away. Put a porous stone surface in a shaded valley-foot microclimate and the green comes back; the question is only how it's dealt with.
Then there's gravel, which is everywhere here. The larger properties and the long rural approaches off the village edge — out toward Snowshill, Buckland and the Wickhamford lanes — tend to be loose gravel or self-binding shingle rather than paved. Gravel doesn't get pressure-washed; you can't blast loose stone without firing it into the borders and washing the fines out. It gets lifted, raked, cleaned of the moss and organic silt that clog it, treated for the weed growing through, and re-laid level. Different surface, same principle: the method is matched to the stone, never forced on it.
That's the whole approach in one line — restored, not stripped. We clean Broadway's gravel, setts and natural stone with neutral, stone-safe chemistry and the gentlest pressure the job will take, so the algae and weed come off and the stone keeps its colour and its character. It's slower than blasting a concrete drive, and on a surface that's a fortune to repair and impossible to truly replace, that's exactly the point.
In a conservation village like this, the surface mix leans heavily to stone and gravel — and every one of them needs a different, careful approach.
The surface that makes Broadway look like Broadway — soft, porous, acid-sensitive limestone in setts, flags and courtyards across the High Street and The Green. Never touched with acid or high pressure. We use neutral, stone-safe treatment and the lightest pressure the job allows, lifting algae and lichen out of the grain while the colour and patina stay exactly as they should be.
The long approach drives at the larger properties and out along the Snowshill, Buckland and Wickhamford lanes are mostly loose gravel or bonded shingle. We don't blast gravel — that fires the stone into the borders and washes out the fines. Loose gravel is lifted, raked, cleaned of moss and silt, weeded and re-laid level; bonded gravel gets a gentle wash and treatment that lifts the green without stripping the binder.
Flagged courtyards, paths and frontages in York stone and other natural flags, often a century or more old and slippery with green in the shade. These are cleaned at low pressure with a stone-safe treatment so the moss and black spot come off the surface without etching or scarring the stone — and we keep any harsh chemistry away from the bedded joints and lime mortar.
A handful of the newer houses around the village edge and the surrounding WR12 villages have modern block paving instead of stone or gravel. Those get a rotary surface cleaner for an even, stripe-free finish, then a full sweep of fresh kiln-dried sand back into the joints — re-sanding included as standard, so the joints stay locked and the weeds stay out.
From the honey-stone heart of the village out to the surrounding WR12 hamlets — same escarpment damp, slightly different surface in front of each house.
The famous broad main street and the grass-fringed Green — tightly-packed listed cottages with limestone setts, flagged frontages and short gravel approaches, much of it inside the conservation area, all of it stone-safe, no-acid work only.
The roads climbing out toward the hills and the church end of the village — shaded, tree-lined frontages where natural stone and gravel green up fast in the damp, and where careful low-pressure work earns its keep.
The quieter residential lanes off the main street — a spread of stone, gravel and the occasional block-paved drive on later plots, each cleaned to suit its own surface rather than blasted to one setting.
The hamlets up in the hills above Broadway — long gravel approach drives and natural-stone courtyards at classic Cotswold properties, often holiday lets and second homes, where weed and moss take hold quickly in the cold upland damp.
The surrounding WR12 villages out across the vale edge — stone and gravel drives at older cottages alongside more modern block paving on newer housing, the same mix of heritage and current surfaces we cover right across the area.
The lanes toward Wickhamford and the lower-lying ground on the Evesham side — gravel approaches and stone frontages on damp, shaded plots that run straight into open countryside, cleaned with care for run-off and surrounding planting.
Broadway has been a conservation area since 1969, and it's one of the most densely listed villages in the Cotswolds. The whole reason people travel to see it — and the reason a clean, honest stone drive adds so much to a property here — is that unbroken run of honey-coloured stone, the wide street, the chestnut-lined Green. Cleaning a drive in that setting isn't a job to rush with a wide lance and a drum of cheap acid. The surfaces are soft, porous and often original, and the wrong approach leaves a mark that doesn't grow out.
For listed and conservation-area properties, the line is straightforward. Lifting algae, moss, weed and dirt off a drive doesn't normally need listed-building consent, because you're cleaning the surface rather than altering the historic fabric. Anything that touches original setts, lime-bedded paving or boundary stonework can cross into needing consent — and if a job looks like it might, we'll flag it before we start so you can have a word with Wychavon District Council's conservation team first. We keep harsh chemistry off old mortar and stone entirely, and we work in a way a heritage officer would have no quarrel with.
It's worth remembering why the village looks the way it does. Broadway was thriving when the Domesday Book was written and grew rich on the medieval wool and cloth trade — the sheep grazed the escarpment, the merchants quarried the honey limestone out of the same hills, and they built long and low along the broad road that gave the place its name. By around 1600 it was a busy coaching stop between Worcester and London, and inns like the Lygon Arms put it on the map. That history is the asset, and the stone is the history. Treat it with neutral chemistry and gentle pressure and it lasts; blast it or acid-wash it and you've taken a chunk out of something irreplaceable.
At quote stage we check whether your property looks listed and inside the conservation area before the survey. It costs us five minutes and can save you a planning headache — and on porous Cotswold stone, getting the method right the first time is the difference between a drive that's clean for years and a stone repair you can't undo.
We come out, look at the drive, the surface, the access and the planting, and tell you exactly what's needed and what it costs. No hard sell, no pressure to book on the spot — and on stone and gravel in the conservation area we flag anything that touches heritage rules first. Photos and a postcode are often enough to price it.
Cotswold limestone and natural stone get neutral, stone-safe treatment and the lightest pressure the job allows — never acid, never a high-pressure blast. Gravel is lifted, raked and cleaned rather than washed. Any modern block paving gets an even rotary clean with no zebra stripes. The surface decides the method.
Block paving is re-sanded with fresh kiln-dried sand swept into the joints as standard. Gravel is re-laid level once it's clean. Weed and organic growth in joints and between stones is treated at the root so it doesn't come straight back, and run-off is washed off kerbs, lawns and borders.
Where the surface suits it — block paving and some natural stone — a sealer locks colour, slows weed regrowth and makes the drive easier to keep clean. On porous Cotswold limestone we'll give you an honest view rather than selling it as standard. More on sealing →
Most drive cleaners turn up with one setting — high pressure and a strong chemical — and use it on everything. On honey Cotswold limestone and loose gravel, that's exactly how drives end up bleached, pitted and grey. We do the opposite: the method is built around your surface, the chemistry is stone-safe, and the result is restored stone, not stripped stone.
That care is the whole point in a village like this. A green, weed-strewn or — worse — a clumsily-blasted drive drags down a property people pay a premium to live near, and on irreplaceable stone there's no second chance to get it right. We work gently, we re-sand any block paving as standard, we treat the weed at the root so it stays away, and we leave borders and planting washed down and tidy. Slower than blasting, and on a Broadway drive that's exactly what you want.
Get my Broadway quoteBroadway throws up everything from long gravel carriage drives and honey-limestone setts to the odd modern block-paved plot on the village edge — and the heritage stone and gravel take slow, careful hand-work rather than a fast blast, which is part of why we won't quote a flat rate over the phone. Every drive's different. But to be straight with you, most domestic driveway cleans here are £180–£450. A small block-paved or concrete drive sits at the lower end; large gravel approaches and heavily-mossed natural stone go up from there.
What moves the price:
How we quote: a free no-obligation survey, a written price the same day, no deposit, pay only when it's done. Ask about sealing at the same time where it suits your surface, and see the imprinted concrete re-colouring service if you have a faded patterned drive on a newer plot.
Not the way we do it. The honey-coloured limestone that makes Broadway look like Broadway is a soft, porous, acid-sensitive stone — the wrong chemical bleaches it, and the wrong pressure pits and scars the surface for good. That's exactly why so many Cotswold drives end up patchy and grey after a careless clean. We use neutral, stone-safe cleaning agents at low concentration, lift the algae and lichen gently rather than blasting it off, and keep the colour and patina the stone has taken decades to earn. Restored, not stripped.
No — not in the blast-it-clean sense. Turning a high-pressure lance on loose gravel just fires the stone into your borders and the hedge, and on soft limestone setts it etches the surface and washes out the bedding. On gravel we lift, rake and clean the stone, treat the weed and organic silt clogging it, and re-lay it level. On setts and natural stone flags we use low pressure with a stone-safe treatment so the moss lifts without the limestone taking any damage. The pressure is always matched to the surface, never the other way round.
Yes, and it's the work we take most care over. Broadway has been a conservation area since 1969 and is one of the most densely listed villages in the Cotswolds. Cleaning a drive — lifting algae, moss and dirt off the stone — doesn't normally need consent because you're not altering the historic fabric. Anything that touches original setts, lime-bedded paving or boundary stonework can, so we'll flag it before we start so you can check with Wychavon District Council if needed. We keep harsh chemicals off old mortar and stone entirely.
Two things stack up. The location: Broadway sits right at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment beneath Fish Hill and Broadway Tower, where cold, damp, shaded air spills down off the highest ground in the northern Cotswolds and settles over the village. The tree-lined High Street, The Green and Snowshill Road frontages add heavy shade on top. The material: porous Cotswold limestone and gravel hold damp and give moss, lichen and algae something to grip. Put a porous, shaded surface in a cold valley-foot microclimate and it greens up faster than open, free-draining ground.
Never on Cotswold limestone or natural stone. Acid-based and harsh chlorine cleaners are exactly what etch, bleach and permanently discolour honey-coloured stone — the damage you can't undo. We work with neutral, stone-safe treatments designed to lift biological growth without attacking the surface. On the few modern block-paving or concrete drives around the village edge we can use a more robust approach where the surface allows, but the heritage stone gets gentle chemistry only.
Usually not. Broadway's tree-lined streets shed leaf litter, and chestnut and lime canopies drip tannin onto pale stone, which leaves dark brown or black organic staining that's easily mistaken for damage to the stone itself. In most cases it's surface-held and lifts with a gentle, stone-safe clean. We'll tell you honestly at the survey whether a mark is organic staining that will come out or genuine wear in the stone that won't — we won't promise to remove something that's actually part of the stone.
Yes. A few of the newer plots around Broadway and the surrounding WR12 villages have modern block paving rather than stone or gravel. On those we clean the slabs with a rotary surface cleaner for an even, stripe-free finish, then sweep fresh kiln-dried sand back into the joints as standard — because pressure-washing strips the jointing sand, and without it the joints wash out and weeds move in. Re-sanding is included, not an add-on.
Block paving and some natural stone can be sealed to slow weed regrowth and make the surface easier to keep clean, and we offer that. Genuine porous Cotswold limestone is a more careful conversation — the wrong sealer traps moisture or changes the look of the stone, which on a heritage drive is the last thing you want. We'll give you an honest answer at the survey about whether sealing suits your particular surface, rather than selling it as standard. See our sealing page for how it works.
Yes, and a fair bit of our Broadway work is exactly this — holiday lets, second homes and B&Bs where the owner isn't always on site. A green, weed-strewn drive costs you bookings in a village people choose for its looks, so kerb appeal is the whole point. We can quote from photos and a survey, work between changeovers or while the property is empty, and deal with you remotely if you're not local. Send the postcode and a couple of photos and we'll take it from there.
We don't quote a flat rate over the phone because every drive's a different size, surface and condition — and Broadway's gravel and Cotswold-stone drives are slow, careful work, not a quick blast. To be straight with you, most domestic driveway cleans here run £180–£450, with smaller block-paved or concrete drives at the lower end and large gravel carriage drives or heavily-mossed natural stone toward the top. You get a free survey, a written price the same day, no deposit, and you pay only when it's done.
The matching service for Broadway's Cotswold stone-slate and clay roofs — hand-cleaned, never pressured, with free gutter clean and biocide.
Roof cleaning BroadwayThe nearest covered town, down in the Vale — block paving, concrete and the fast algae regrowth of the humid Vale microclimate.
Driveway cleaning EveshamThe other end of the Cotswolds — gravel and honey-coloured natural stone at conservation-area period homes, cleaned the same sympathetic way.
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The Guys did a fantastic job on my roof and worked nonstop all day to get the job done and left everything clean and tidy after themselves, highly recommend and would look to use again 👍, made a massive difference to the house.
Would strongly recommend. Swift with good work quality and kept the surrounding areas tidy. Looks like a new roof! Would 100% recommend.
Would strongly recommend. Swift with good work quality and kept the surrounding areas tidy. Looks like a new roof! Would 100% recommend.
Blake and Daniel cleaned my patio and path at the front and did a great job. They were friendly and professional and explained well what they were going to do. I also had a bad dark patch which came up really well which others had failed to remove. I would definitely recommend them if like me you have a patio or driveway that badly needs a thorough clean
Blake and Daniel cleaned my patio and path at the front and did a great job. They were friendly and professional and explained well what they were going to do. I also had a bad dark patch which came up really well which others had failed to remove. I would definitely recommend them if like me you have a patio or driveway that badly needs a thorough clean
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100% recommend this team . From start to finish was kept informed.On the morning a text to say what time they will be there and arrived on time . Worked from 9:30 till 7:30pm on the roof and jet washing all the area after. Very professional and had all the kit even a drone to show you the results of the whole area . The difference is amazing and looks like a new roof . Really happy with the results and so many comments from neighbours too saying how good it looks . You will not be disappointed .
Had our drive re sealed and repaired amazing job by Blake and Dan thanks very much for your hard work it looks amazing highly recommended company
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What can I say other than WOW !! Massive thank you to Blake and Dan for all of your hard work, so professional and such an amazing job! Left everything spotless so pleased, highly recommend to everyone. Extremely happy
Blake and team did a great job of cleaning and resealing our roof. They worked hard and communicated well by proactively keeping us updated at every stage. We are happy with the end result and the transformation was epic!
Blake and team did a great job of cleaning and resealing our roof. They worked hard and communicated well by proactively keeping us updated at every stage. We are happy with the end result and the transformation was epic!
We had excellent service from start to finish. The guys were very professional, discussed everything over the phone initially then a visit with the drone to allow accurate quarter and expectation management. On the day they were considerate with the neighbours, did a wonderful job with the roof and gutters and cleared up so well that everything looked far better than when they started. Cannot recommend more highly.
We had excellent service from start to finish. The guys were very professional, discussed everything over the phone initially then a visit with the drone to allow accurate quarter and expectation management. On the day they were considerate with the neighbours, did a wonderful job with the roof and gutters and cleared up so well that everything looked far better than when they started. Cannot recommend more highly.
Great guys. Amazing job on the drive and always answers the phone. Recommend 100%
Great guys. Amazing job on the drive and always answers the phone. Recommend 100%
Really impressed with Aquapro Roof cleaning. Very professional guys that done such a good job, that it looks like I’ve had a new roof installed, (after 40yrs of dirt and moss). Blake talked me through everything in detail, and answered any questions I had. Showed me the end result with his drone footage and left house clean and tidy. Highly recommended.
Really impressed with Aquapro Roof cleaning. Very professional guys that done such a good job, that it looks like I’ve had a new roof installed, (after 40yrs of dirt and moss). Blake talked me through everything in detail, and answered any questions I had. Showed me the end result with his drone footage and left house clean and tidy. Highly recommended.
Great service, lovely & friendly team. So happy with the patio.
Great service, lovely & friendly team. So happy with the patio.
Honey Cotswold limestone, gravel and natural stone cleaned the careful way — neutral, stone-safe, never blasted, never acid-washed. Block paving re-sanded as standard. Fully insured, no-obligation quote, written the same day.
