Using high pressure to clean a tile roof is a crude and invasive form of cleaning.
Safe way to clean roof in south florida.
Use a pressure washer which can loosen shingles and seriously damage your roof.
With most good cleaners that s all you need to do.
Of laundry strength liquid chlorine bleach and water.
Use a sprayer attached to garden hose that s filled with equal parts chlorine bleach and water.
Here s how i do it.
This is the best way to clean a roof if you have asphalt shingles.
By marcel rosen president fiddler roof cleaning did you ever wonder what the black stains on a dirty south florida roof are.
Therefore low pressure roof cleaning is the safest and most effective way to clean a roof.
I mix up my cleaner in bug sprayer container and spray it all over the roof.
It will rinse off the next time it rains.
Even some soft roof washing companies sometimes opt to use high pressure washers for small periods of time on certain areas of roofs.
Instead of relying on high pressure to remove the algae and dirt we use soaps and tile roof cleaning chemicals specially designed to clean your roof the safest and most long lasting way possible.
Most roof and pressure cleaning services use high pressure power washing devices to remove these stains.
Since pressure washing water does not kill the mold mildew and algae your roof will get dirty within 6 months.
Just spray it on and leave it.
This allows dirt mold and mildew to accumulate and grow faster.
These black stains are called gloeocapsa magma a type of algae.
It s either a soft wash or it s a high pressure wash there are no in betweens 2.
This method is stressful on your roof.