Exterior cleaning in Ashley

The postwar bungalow roofs. Half the stock here went up between 1945 and 1982, with the peak in the late fifties and early sixties, so the common roof is plain or interlocking concrete tile with long hips and a lot of ridge for the size of the house. At 41.8% bungalows that is a great deal of edge and very little height. Moss sits in the lap, holds water against the tile and washes down until the gutter outlet stops taking anything. We take it off dry, scrape by hand where it is thick, and treat the rest with a biocide so the spore is killed rather than knocked off. The saving grace of a single storey roof is access: a reach pole does much of it from ground level, so there is often no tower on the quote at all. Pressure still never goes on concrete tile: it strips the cement face and leaves the tile more porous than we found it.

The old garage and outbuilding roofs. Ashley has a lot of them, and on property of this age the corrugated sheet on a detached garage, a workshop or a lean to is often cement sheet containing asbestos. That is the one surface where the right answer is to leave it alone. Never jet wash it, never scrape it and never let anyone brush it down: the force breaks the surface and puts fibres into the air and onto your garden. We will clear the gutter that runs off it and tell you plainly that the roof itself is not a cleaning job.

Sand and cement render, some of it pebbledash, painted masonry on porches and bay walls, and plain brickwork on the later infill all get a soft wash at low pressure through a wide nozzle, sometimes with no pressure at all. Force on old render finds the weak mortar first and opens it up. North and east elevations here carry the worst of the green, because they sit in the shade of mature planting.

The forest fringe means leaf litter as well as moss, so gutter clearing here is a twice a year job. We clear by hand and by vacuum and flush every run to the outlet. Block paving on the later drives takes a genuine pressure wash and fresh kiln dried sand swept back into the joints, and black spot lichen on concrete slabs is a treatment job with patience, which we say before you pay for it.

Two identical bungalow roofs can be a morning apart, so the area on its own tells you nothing. A single storey bungalow with the eaves inside pole reach off the lawn, a chalet bungalow with a dormer and a steep front pitch, and a detached house with a garage roof between you and the back elevation are three different jobs before any water is turned on. Some of it comes off a pole, some of it wants a platform, and the work at height rules make that call rather than us. Ask which surfaces are treated and which are only rinsed.

We cover Ashley and the rest of BH25 through New Milton, Bashley, Barton on Sea and out towards Hordle and Sway, with New Forest District Council as the authority for this address. Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719, which you can look up in a minute. Thomas Hannen's business, and he is the one who comes out to price the job, not a salesman. A verified customer's 10 out of 10 on Checkatrade. The visit and the written quote are both free.