There is a lot of old roof in Ferns, and old roof is exactly where a careless clean does damage. Here is what goes on yours, and why it comes off looking better without being worn out to get there.
On houses of the age you get around Ferns, the method matters more than the muscle.
Everything applied above ends up below eventually, so the ground gets attention before the roof does. Beds and borders under the gutter line are watered down or covered before a drop goes on, and we stay well clear of ponds and any open water on the property. Before we leave you are told how long to keep children and animals off the ground below. Nothing is ever mixed on site. Your garden matters as much to the job as the roof does, and it goes back the way we found it.
What changes between a modern tile and a Victorian slate is not what goes on it. It is the pace.
A tile roof from the last few decades is robust and predictable. The growth is lifted, the treatment goes on, and the covering takes it without any particular fuss. Most of the houses on the newer end of the village are in this bracket, and they are the simplest roofs we do.
A slate that has been up since before anyone living remembers gets checked over first — fixings, condition, anything that has moved — and then worked at a gentler pace and a lower pressure than a tile would need. It takes longer, and taking longer is precisely what keeps a roof like that intact.
On a roof of this age, the looking matters as much as the cleaning.
We look the slate over first for its age, its condition, whether anything has slipped or cracked, and how the fixings are holding. That look decides everything that follows.
Where the roof is sound, the growth is lifted by hand and the treatment goes on diluted and at low pressure, worked at the pace an old covering deserves.
Where it is not sound, we say so and stop, and you get an honest account of what wants doing first. Either way you end the day knowing exactly where the roof stands.
Useful whoever you end up giving the work to.
On a roof of this age, ask each one how they intend to handle old slate specifically. It separates the quotes far more sharply than the prices do.
The Roof Check takes about a minute from the ground. On an older roof it is worth doing before you ask anyone to price it.
We cover Ferns and Camolin, through the village itself and out across the farmland either side where the damp holds longest.
Lime render, stone and the older boundary walls around the village take the same treatment the roof gets, and they suffer from exactly the same impatience.
Worth putting to us, and to anybody else you are asking.
Very likely yes, with the right handling. Old slate is treated far more gently than concrete tile: low pressure throughout, and a proper look at condition and fixings before anything at all is applied. Where a roof is better left, we say so.
They get dealt with before the roof does — soaked or covered so that nothing lands on them dry. We keep a wide margin from ponds and open water, and you get clear instructions about the ground below before we pack up. Gardens go back the way we found them.
From the ground wherever possible, which is both safer and cheaper for you. Some rooflines need more than that, and where yours does, you will hear it when we quote rather than on the day.
We do, more often than you might think. If the roof needs a repair first, or if it genuinely has another season in it, you will be told that plainly. It costs us a job and it is still the right call, and it is why people ring us back.
What the biocide does, how long it needs to sit, and where the line falls between clearing and treating. The whole account is on the main roof cleaning page.
About the method, the product, the pressure, anything at all. You will get a straight answer.
Phone: 089-949-1525
WhatsApp: Send a couple of photos
Email: info@eireshine.ie
Send a couple of photographs and you will get an honest view on whether it is sound enough to treat, or whether a roofer should have the first look. Either answer puts you further ahead than guessing.
The age of the roof, if you know it, is genuinely useful here.
