Driveway cleaning in Evesham — and a treatment that keeps the Vale algae off.

Because of where Evesham sits. The town wraps around a tight horseshoe of the River Avon and the whole place is ringed by the low, wet Vale floodplain, so even in a dry summer the air holds moisture — and moisture is exactly what algae, moss and that black-green slime live on. It's the same humid ground that makes the Vale of Evesham famous for asparagus, plums and market gardening; what's good for growing fruit is good for growing algae on your block paving. A drive here greens up noticeably faster than the same drive would up on the drier slopes towards Bredon Hill or out on the Cotswold edge. That's the whole reason we finish every Evesham clean with an anti-regrowth biocide treatment and back it with a 2-year guarantee — without it, a pressure-wash on its own is green again within a season.

That's the difference between a rinse and a proper clean — and it matters more in Evesham than almost anywhere we work. Pressure-washing only removes what you can see; the algae spores are still in the surface and in this damp Vale they're airborne all year, so a plain jet-wash is back to green within a few months. The biocide we apply after cleaning keeps killing fresh spores for up to two years, so the drive stays clean rather than just looking clean for a fortnight. In a microclimate this humid the treatment is the part that earns its keep, which is why it's included as standard and guaranteed, not sold as an upsell.

Yes. The low-lying drives down near the river in Bengeworth and across in the Hamptons catch run-off and Avon meadow silt when the water comes up, and it settles into the joints and the surface texture where a hose won't touch it. A rotary surface cleaner lifts silt out of block paving evenly, and we flush the joints clear before re-sanding so the drive drains properly again. If your plot floods regularly we'll talk you through what's worth doing and what isn't — there's no sense sealing a drive that's going to be under water again, so we time the work and the treatment around that.

No. A rotary surface cleaner spreads the pressure evenly across the face of the blocks and stays parallel to the surface, so you get a clean, even finish with none of the zebra-striping you see when someone free-hands a lance across the slabs. The only thing it really strips is the kiln-dried sand from the joints — which is exactly why we re-sand every block-paving job as standard before we leave. On tarmac, resin-bound or gravel we drop the pressure right down and clean gently so we don't blast loose stone away or strip the binder.

We re-sand every block-paving drive — it's included, not extra. Cleaning inevitably washes the old kiln-dried sand out of the joints, and in the Vale's wet ground an un-sanded drive loses its lock fast: the blocks start to rock, water tracks down the open joints, and weeds and moss colonise the gaps within weeks. Once the surface has dried we brush fresh kiln-dried sand into every joint, sweep off the excess, and the drive is locked up and stable again. A lot of cheaper cleaners skip this — it's why their work looks great for two weeks and tired by the spring.

In Evesham it's worth considering more than most places. Sealing a block-paving drive after cleaning blocks weeds out of the joints, makes the surface far easier to keep clean, and crucially slows down how fast the algae gets a grip again — which in this humid Vale is the thing that brings people back. A good sealer adds roughly 2–3 years before the next deep clean and makes oil and tyre marks easy to wipe. Whether it's worth the extra on your particular drive depends on the surface, its age and how shaded it is, and we'll give you an honest answer at the quote. See our sealing page for how it works.

It's worth it, but go in with eyes open. The shaded, north-facing drives on the tighter streets and cul-de-sacs around Evesham never get enough sun to dry properly, so they hold damp and green up faster than an open south-facing drive. We can clean them back to like-new, but on a permanently damp plot the biocide treatment isn't optional — it's the only thing that buys you a couple of clear years rather than a couple of clear months. On the worst of them we'll usually recommend the clean plus treatment plus a seal as the combination that actually holds, and we'll be straight with you about how often it'll realistically need redoing.

Yes. The frontage drives on the busy through-roads near the town centre and Port Street pick up a film of diesel soot and traffic grime on top of the usual algae, which dulls the whole surface to a flat grey. That ingrained film needs the rotary cleaner and the right cleaning agent rather than a quick hose-down — we lift the grime, treat any oil patches separately, then biocide-treat the whole drive so the algae doesn't just come straight back through it. On a heavily filmed frontage the difference once it's done tends to surprise people.

That's efflorescence — a natural lime salt bloom that works its way to the surface of newer concrete block paving, very common on the more recently-laid drives around Greenhill, Four Pools and the Offenham Road estates. It looks like a dusty white haze and people often mistake it for damage or for cleaning that's gone wrong. It isn't permanent, and a proper clean lifts most of it; the rest weathers out over the following months as the blocks finish curing. We'll tell you honestly whether what you're seeing is efflorescence or staining before we start, because the two are dealt with differently.

All of Evesham and the surrounding Vale — the town centre, Bengeworth, Great and Little Hampton, Greenhill, Four Pools, the Davies Road and Cheltenham Road area, the Offenham Road estates, and out to Offenham, Badsey and the other Vale villages. Same pricing across the patch, no extra travel charge. We're a local, fully insured, no-deposit outfit — you pay on completion once you're happy, not before. If you're not sure we reach you, send your WR11 postcode and we'll confirm.