Smart Exterior Cleaning provide roof cleaning services in and around Ickenham, Ruislip, Hillingdon, Uxbridge, London and Gerrards Cross. We provide a soft wash roof cleaning service, which cleans your roof effectively whilst being gentle to your roof tiles. The soft wash roof cleaning solution effectively kills the moss, lichen and algae that grow on your roof, leaving it clean for years to come.
We can also pressure wash your roof but this is subject to an inspection of the site to ensure it is the best way to proceed. Generally, we recommend the Softwash process. But sometimes, such as when a customer is planning a house sale, you need to see instant results. When pressure cleaning, we use specialist equipment on long-reach poles so that we do not need to climb all over your roof. We use our own scaffold towers to access hard to reach areas. This protects me and my team, and also protects your roof tiles! We turn the pressure as low as possible to retain the gentle touch – avoiding many of the pitfalls less experienced roof cleaners fall into!
Our Safe, SoftClean Roof Cleaning Process
Our first priority is to manually remove as much organic material from the roof tiles as possible. This is done using specialist roof tile scrapers, which are sized and shaped for the particular tile type of your roof. Perfection is not essential, as the later treatments will purge the tiles of any remaining material.
The roof is now rinsed to remove any loose remnants and to dampen the tiles. This enhances the absorption of a biocide roof cleaning solution.
We use roof cleaning biocides that are extremely concentrated; they are only sold to members of the roof cleaning trade as we adhere to strict health and safety rules. This solution has been developed especially for the treatment of roofs, walls and general amenity areas and degrades naturally in the environment. It is non-aggressive in nature and does not contain bleach or acids. Our Softwash solutions will not degrade leadwork, aluminium or tile fixings. Furthermore, the solution does not affect any known construction material, and has a rapid breakdown rate after use, leaving residues that are absorbed by bacteria. It kills 99.9% of the microbial life and is a potent algaecide. It kills moss and lichen, which tend to harbour algae.
The product begins to work immediately and the initial phase (killing the biofilm) is substantially completed within thirty minutes. The weather will do the rest over time, removing biological material resulting in as “as new’ result. The speed of cleansing is by and large in relation to the site exposure and to a degree the type of contaminant. Different contaminants will shed at different rates: Moss remnants will quickly decay and disperse. White and yellow lichen will also die within a short period and begin to detach, although they can take up to 12 months to fully degrade away.
When Should You Have Your Roof Re-Sprayed?
On roofs, some light green can re-appear about 4 years after treatment if the building is situated in a sheltered environment. Moss takes a long time to come back. Roof cleaning is recommended by the manufacturer of Softwash solutions to be carried out every 10 years.
The Soft Wash Roof Cleaning Process
The photos below illustrates part of the soft wash roof cleaning process. As you can see, we gentle remove large debris and moss before applying the biocide solution. This gentle and fully cleans the tiles over subsequent weeks.
We Are Proud to Use AlgoClear Pro SoftClean
Contact Us For A Roof Cleaning Quote
From our base in Ickenham, we serve Ruislip, Uxbridge, Gerrards Cross, Beaconsfield and Hillingdon, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area. Our London roof cleaning service is available to domestic and commercial premises. Contact Smart Exterior Cleaning on 01895 875 662 or email quotes@smartexteriorcleaning.co.uk for more information and to obtain a quote.