How to clean house roof tiles
The roof is one of the first things that visitors see of your property. Although cleaning your roof may seem like an unnecessary expense, the difference that a clean, moss-free roof makes is fantastic.
You’ll be amazed by just how much more modern, clean and impressive your home exterior looks after a good roof clean.
What’s more, as well as improving the visuals of your property, regular roof cleaning also prevents the occurrence of moisture issues, protects your structural boards, ensures effective ventilation, maintains the strength of the structure, while keeping your home’s weather resistance high (thereby protecting everything inside it).
However, it’s important to note that there are right and wrong ways to clean house roof tiles.
A pressure washer is a commonly used method to clean roof tiles, especially by homeowners who are attempting to clean their roof themselves. However, we would not recommend that you clean it this way. This is because high-pressure cleaners can actually damage roof tiles, remove their finish or cause water to leak through gaps in the roof.
Instead, these are the cleaning methods that our specialists would recommend for house roof tiles:
- Manually using a trowel and scraping off any dirt, moss or algae
- Using a stiff brush to lift off any dirt or moss
- Using a moss killer or chemical moss treatments
- Applying fungicide (commonly available as a spray)
It is important to note that, if you do use chemicals, make sure you carefully cover any of your nearby plants. These chemicals can damage your plants, or even kill them.
If you have any further questions about roof care, or you would like to enlist a specialist roof cleaner to restore your roof for you, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Our top team of roof care specialists would be more than happy to help.