The Slaney corridor keeps damp in the air for longer than the open county does, and a roof along here feels that every year. The damp sets a rhythm, and once you know what that rhythm is, the roof stops being a nuisance and becomes something you plan around.
Growth sits on your roof at three levels, and water pressure only ever reaches the first of them. That is why a rinsed roof looks finished from the garden and is back on you before long.
Not a right way and a wrong way. Two different rhythms, and one of them asks a good deal more of you.
Have the growth taken off and nothing applied afterwards and the roof will look well for a season or two. Then the same job comes round again, and again after that. Plenty of houses along the valley are on this cycle without their owners ever having chosen it.
The growth comes off, the biocide goes on, and it carries on working in the tile through the seasons that follow. When the interval does come round, it usually starts with us having a look and telling you there is nothing to do yet.
If somebody has already been out, the useful question is what was left undone.
Tell us roughly when it was last done and what was applied, if you know. Along this valley the speed of the regrowth is usually enough on its own for us to work out the rest.
Growth lifted off by hand where there is depth to it, then a biocide at low pressure suited to your covering, put on with dry hours behind it so it has a chance to soak in.
Gutters emptied of everything that came down, and a realistic interval for the next look. Along here that is further out than most people assume once the roof has been treated properly.
A quick check and the long explanation, neither of them costing anything.
The guide sets out what regrowth needs, what shortens the gap between cleans and what lengthens it. That gap is the number worth caring about.
The Roof Check takes a minute from the ground and tells you whether this is a job for now or for next year. A fair number of people who run it are told to leave it a while.
We cover Oilgate, Glenbrien and Killurin, along the corridor where the air off the river keeps the tiles damp for a good part of the year.
A valley floor means leaf as well as moss, and a gutter that stops running keeps the wall below it wet through the winter.
Usually by somebody who has had it done before.
Almost always because the roof was washed and nothing was applied afterwards. Taking away what you can see leaves the spores and the rooting untouched, and they restart at the first wet spell. Clear it and then treat it and the timescale changes completely.
A roof that is cleared and treated properly holds twelve months or more, and considerably longer where it catches some sun. Nobody can honestly promise it is gone for good, but we can tell you roughly when to have another look. It is usually further away than people brace for.
People do, and the two things that catch them out are the ladder and the pressure washer — one is the risk, the other is the damage. If you are going to try it, do it from the ground and leave the washer in the shed. Or send a photo and we will tell you honestly whether it is even worth paying anyone for yet.
It is not only cosmetic. Moss keeps the covering wet, works its way under tile edges as it thickens, and blocks the gutter line with what it sheds. Clearing it takes that pressure off the roof, which is the part that pays for itself.
Which biocide, how long it needs on the roof and why soaking in beats striking the surface — the full account is on the main roof cleaning page.
Tell us when it was last looked at and we will tell you whether it is due.
Phone: 089-949-1525
WhatsApp: Send a couple of photos
Email: info@eireshine.ie
That one answer tells us most of what we need. Send it with a photo and we will tell you where the roof actually stands, which is often better news than expected.
Roughly when it was last looked at is the useful thing to tell us.
