Patio cleaning across Lostock
Lostock sits on the sheltered western side of Bolton, so plots here hold damp long after the rain has cleared and dry slowly through the year. On the town's render and concrete-tile houses that lingering moisture is what feeds green algae and moss, worst on the north-facing walls and pitches. That is why we soft wash rather than blast it off, lifting the growth at the root so it comes back slower.
Lostock is one of the greener, more spacious suburbs on Bolton's western edge, built out largely between the wars and after, so the housing runs to generous detached and semi-detached homes set back behind lawns and mature planting. A lot of that stock is pebbledash or painted render under concrete-tiled roofs, and the heavy tree cover along the avenues keeps frontages shaded and slow to dry. Bigger plots also mean sizeable driveways and patios, so a Lostock job often mixes delicate render work with larger areas of hard surfacing.
