Roof Cleaning & Moss Removal in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford
This is our own town, so we quote more roofs here than anywhere else. Here is what they actually come to, and what makes the difference between the bottom of the range and the top.
We are based hereEnniscorthy is where we work from, so there is no travel loaded into the figure and no minimum job to make a trip worth our while. Small roofs get quoted the same way as big ones.
Town roofs carry two problems at onceRiver damp off the Slaney keeps the north-facing pitches wet, and traffic film settles on everything near the centre. The grime is what people notice; the moss underneath is what actually needs treating.
Whichever of these is nearest your own.
Guide ranges from jobs we have actually done. Most Enniscorthy houses land in the first two.
Terrace
€350 – €500 One roof plane, modest area, all of it within reach from below.Semi-detached
€400 – €600 The house we are asked to price more often than any other.Detached
€600 – €800 Four elevations, a larger area, and height that needs planning for.Architectural
€800 upwards Extra storeys, glazed sections and rooflines with a lot happening.Ranges to guide you, not a quotation. Your own number turns on pitch, on whether the roof is concrete tile, clay or natural slate, on the depth of growth, on how we reach it and on whether specialist access equipment has to come in. Photographs get you an actual figure rather than a band, and where a roof prices under what the owner braced for we say so gladly.
What we are looking at when we price it.
So a figure arrives with a reason attached rather than out of the air.
The roof you have
Area, pitch and material. Slate is handled more carefully than concrete and takes longer for it; a steep roof takes longer than a shallow one of the same size. None of that is guesswork. It is all visible in a photograph.
The state it is in
A light film and a deep moss bed are two different jobs, and only one of them starts with clearing by hand. Where a roof sits on that scale is the single biggest thing on the quote.
How we get to it, and what else you want done
Working from the ground costs less than bringing equipment in. And anything else booked for the same visit — gutters, panels, render — rides on a set-up you have already paid for.
What happens between your photos and your price.
Three steps, and none of them involve a rate card.
1. Photos arrive
Two photographs and an Eircode arrive. From those we read off the area, the pitch, whether the covering is concrete, clay or slate, and how deep the growth has actually gone.
2. We work out what it needs
Then we decide whether the roof needs clearing, treating, or the two together. In the town this often comes out lighter than you had feared, because traffic grime lifts far more readily than moss does.
3. One figure comes back
Back comes a single figure with a note of what it includes and how long we will be at the house. Nothing gets added on unless you ask for it, and anything that would change the figure we raise with you first.
Two minutes before you spend two hundred.
One check and one short read, neither of them costing you anything.
Guide
How to choose a cleaner
One quote double the other?
That gap almost always means the two are not describing the same piece of work. One is clearing, the other is clearing and treating. The guide sets out what should be in a fair quote so you can line them up properly.
Free check
Try the Roof Check
Is this year actually the year?
The Roof Check runs through what to look for from the ground in about a minute. A fair few people who use it are told the roof will keep another season, which is money in your pocket.
Where a euro stretches furthest.
Anything added while we are already outside your door costs a good deal less than calling us back for it on its own.
The money questions.
Asked first by nearly everybody, and quite rightly.
Do you have to come out before quoting?
Not usually. Photographs from the ground tell us most of what we need, and anything we cannot see from them we ask about. It saves you an appointment and gets you an answer quicker.
How long does the work take?
Most domestic roofs are a single day. Heavy moss adds time, because it comes off by hand before anything else happens, and a treatment-only job runs quicker. You get a realistic window when we quote rather than a best case, so you can plan the day around it.
Is moss actually damaging the roof, or does it just look bad?
Both, over time. Thick moss holds water against the covering, lifts at the edges of tiles and slates as it grows, and sheds into the gutters until they stop running. Once it is dealt with it stops being a problem, and stays that way for a good while.
What about the roof cleaners you can buy yourself?
The products on the shelf are weaker dilutions of the same idea, and on a light film they can do a reasonable job from the ground. They fall down on depth, because they do not stay on long enough to reach what is rooted in the surface. On a lightly marked roof, though, it is a fair thing to try first.
Where the money goes.
What the method involves, what goes on the roof and why treating outlasts clearing on its own. The full account sits on the main roof cleaning page.
Put a real number on it.
Two photographs and an Eircode is all it takes to turn a range into a figure.
Talk to us
Phone: 089-949-1525
WhatsApp: Send a couple of photos
Email: info@eireshine.ie
- Mon–Fri08:30 – 19:30
- Saturday10:00 – 18:30
- Sunday12:00 – 18:30
Rather know than guess?
Send a photo of the front and one of the back and we will price the job properly. Asking costs nothing, and the answer comes in below what people brace for more often than not.
One from the front, one from the back, and your Eircode.