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Enticing customers to enter your shop starts with ensuring your property is looking its best. Storefronts that are dirty, damaged and showing visible signs of wear will create a negative first impression and discourage shoppers from stepping over the threshold. Styles Façade Solutions® (formerly Thomann-Hanry®) delivers premier facade cleaning services for commercial retail and restoration, ensuring your storefront reflects the quality of your brand.

Since 2005, we have delivered specialist façade services for some of the world’s most prestigious retailers. We understand that retail properties have specific operational requirements, which is why we offer flexible scheduling outside of normal opening hours, including night shifts and weekend work, to ensure your business remains fully operational and accessible during its peak hours.

THE SCAFFOLD-FREE ADVANTAGE

Traditional scaffolding can be bad for business, deterring customers from entering your retail establishment. It obscures window displays and provides a security risk. By using our fleet of MEWPs (Mobile Elevating Work Platforms), we can provide a scaffold-free alternative to all your façade inspection, cleaning, restoration, and repair requirements. This helps you to:

  • Protect footfall: No unsightly poles or boards blocking entrances.
  • Preserves window displays: Your marketing and promotions remain visible to passers-by.
  • Reduce costs: Decreases the project time required.
  • Enhances security: Unlike scaffolding, our equipment is removed at the end of every shift, leaving no ‘climbing frames’ for potential thieves.
Styles Façade Solutions® conducting a façade condition survey of Prada, Bond Street. An operative on a cherry-picker inspects the soiled Portland stone upper storeys, assessing the building's condition above the Prada storefront ahead of possible cleaning and restoration works.
Styles Façade Solutions® conducting a façade condition survey of Prada, Bond Street. An operative on a cherry-picker inspects the soiled Portland stone upper storeys, assessing the building's condition above the Prada storefront ahead of possible cleaning and restoration works.

FAÇADE SURVEYS

Taking a preventative approach to structural defects and repairs can help retail estate or building managers reduce capital expenditure on more serious, potentially dangerous problems that could develop. These issues could also potentially impact staff, clients, and the wider public and lead to more serious reputational and financial consequences.

To ensure a swift turnaround on our façade surveys, we use MEWPs and if needed, drone technology, to help reduce time, disruption to your retail business, and costs associated with erecting scaffolding. This also allows for loose and dangerous structural items to be made safe or removed during the survey.

Our surveys are conducted by qualified façade specialists. Upon completion, you will receive a detailed, colour-coded report that categorises risks into priority windows (one, six, or 12 months), enabling transparent budgeting for your retail property portfolio.

16-18 Old Bond Street Case study 16-18 Old Bond Street Click here to see how Styles Façade Solutions® conducted the façade survey without the need for unsightly scaffolding on 16-18 Old Bond Street, the home to PRADA. View case study
Styles Façade Solutions® carrying out Façade Gommage cleaning on Spirella House, Regent Street. The close-up reveals a sharp contrast between soiled and restored stonework around carved lion heads and Ionic capitals, showcasing the precision of the conservation grade cleaning process on ornate detailing.
Styles Façade Solutions® carrying out Façade Gommage cleaning on Spirella House, Regent Street. The close-up reveals a sharp contrast between soiled and restored stonework around carved lion heads and Ionic capitals, showcasing the precision of the conservation grade cleaning process on ornate detailing.

FAÇADE CLEANING & RESTORATION

Retail façades in high-traffic urban areas are constantly bombarded by pollutants. As the UK’s premier facade cleaning services for commercial retail solutions provider, we offer the Façade Gommage cleaning process, a dry, gentle, non-abrasive solution that effectively and efficiently removes dirt and grime to reveal the natural stone or surface of the building, without the mess of water and harsh chemicals.

Projected under low pressure from a cabin mounted on a hydraulic boom, ultrafine dry particles of aluminium silicate (a chemically inert by-product of aluminium smelting) flow across all surfaces, gently rubbing away decades of dirt and grime before being drawn off, filtered and collected through a water curtain for recycling.

The security and safety aspects of Façade Gommage set it apart from traditional techniques. At the end of a day’s cleaning, the cabin is simply retracted on its hydraulic boom, leaving property security completely uncompromised.

Our platforms and truck mounts are fast and discreet, so cleaning takes years off your building without taking ages to prepare. Styles Façade Solutions® can also work outside of standard business hours, ensuring minimal disruption.

266-270 Regent Street Case study 266-270 Regent Street Click here to see how Styles Façade Solutions® conducted a scaffold-free façade clean using the Façade Gommage cleaning process for 266-270 Regent Street. View case study
Styles Façade Solutions® carrying out night-time stone masonry and restoration works to the Portland stone façade of Hamleys, Regent Street. The Styles Façade Solutions restoration team work from MWEPs to prevent the store from needing to use costly, unsightly, and invasive scaffolding.
Styles Façade Solutions® carrying out night-time stone masonry and restoration works to the Portland stone façade of Hamleys, Regent Street. The Styles Façade Solutions restoration team work from MWEPs to prevent the store from needing to use costly, unsightly, and invasive scaffolding.

FAÇADE MAINTENANCE, RESTORATION & REPAIR

There is a misconception that you will need to shroud your building in unsightly, expensive, and time-consuming scaffolding for façade maintenance.

However, with over 20 years of experience, our specialist maintenance team has a proven track record of delivering virtually all types of maintenance and restoration works from MEWPs, allowing for minimal disruption to the day-to-day operations for most commercial retail sites.

We have carried out stone repairs, repointing, roofing, painting, mastic replacement, and bird proofing at many high-profile locations across London and further afield. There is no element of work on a building façade that our restoration and repair team cannot carry out.

Hamleys Case study Hamleys Click here to see how Styles Façade Solutions® conducted a scaffold-free, night-time façade restoration programme for the iconic Hamley’s, Regents Street. View case study
Styles Façade Solutions® carrying out scaffold-free window painting at Primark, Broadmead, Bristol. An operative works from a MEWP, painting frames set within the curved stone façade, demonstrating an efficient access method for maintenance works without the need for full scaffolding.
Styles Façade Solutions® carrying out scaffold-free window painting at Primark, Broadmead, Bristol. An operative works from a MEWP, painting frames set within the curved stone façade, demonstrating an efficient access method for maintenance works without the need for full scaffolding.

WINDOW AND FAÇADE PAINTING & DECORATING

Styles Façade Solutions® is your specialist partner for commercial painting and decorating. We have a proven track record of industry-leading techniques in the preservation, repair and upkeep of painted surfaces, including windows, timberwork, render and railings.

By working from MEWPs (Mobile Elevating Work Platforms), we offer unparalleled cost and time savings. This agile approach avoids the need to shroud a building in unsightly, expensive scaffolding for months on end – a critical advantage for occupied commercial and retail spaces.

RENDER AND CLADDING REFRESH

For buildings with painted render or cladding, our professional decorators will provide a methodical ‘strip, repair and renew’ service. Where necessary, we can remove any failing paint layers, repair the underlying substrate and apply high-performance primers and finishes to provide your property with a pristine, long-lasting aesthetic.

SPECIALIST WINDOW CONSERVATION

Our expertise extends beyond aesthetics. We don’t just paint and decorate windows; we focus on the functional integrity of your building:

  • Sealant & Putty Renewal: We remove defective putty and failing sealants, replacing them with modern, durable alternatives.
  • Leak Prevention: By meticulously sealing frames and joints, we ensure that windows, doors, and timber sections are entirely protected against water ingress (the penetration of water into the building's interior structure).
  • Joinery Expertise: Our decorators are specifically trained by the Repair Care International Dulux Academy in the advanced repair, maintenance, and conservation of joinery (the wooden components of a building, such as window sashes and door frames).

With decades of experience, Styles Façade Solutions® manages every painting project are managed from start to finish, with superior quality in mind.

SPECIALIST TECHNICAL SERVICES

Beyond structural masonry and cleaning, Styles Façade Solutions® provides a suite of specialist ancillary services designed to maintain every detail of your building’s exterior:

SECURE YOUR BUILDING’S LEGACY

Call our specialist team TODAY on +44 (0) 20 8453 1494 to discuss your requirements. Alternatively, use the contact us form to discover how Styles Façade Solutions’ (formerly Thomann-Hanry®) bespoke cleaning and restoration programmes can support your next project with minimal disruption.

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