Exterior cleaning in Bearwood
Roof moss, render and tile hanging, shared gutter runs, drives and parking courts across Bearwood and BH11, cleaned at the pressure the surface will actually take.
The site visit is free and so is the written itemised quote. Thomas Hannen prices every job himself.
If the back of your Bearwood roof is green and the front of it is clean, there is nothing wrong with the roof. That is aspect, not failure, and it is fixed with a clean and a treatment rather than a re-cover.
We survey each elevation before we price anything, and in Bearwood that matters more than it sounds. The estate went up largely in one go, so whole streets share the same roof covering, the same render panels and the same block paving, and they age at the same rate. That is why one house gets done and then three neighbours ring in the same fortnight.
The calls are usually the shaded roof slope, a gutter that has started running over the front door, or a drive that has gone slippery where the cars do not sit. We look at all of it, price each surface separately, and tell you where the money is best spent first. On a terrace that is often the gutters rather than the roof.
The work
The surfaces Bearwood streets actually have
Roof cleaning on a shared slope. The estate is 1980s, with over a third of the stock from that decade, and the roofs are almost all concrete interlocking tile at a shallow pitch, with the terraces running as one long slope over several houses. Moss on a slope like that is a shared problem: what grows on your two metres seeds the next two. We scrape it off, clear the laps and the ridge, bag what comes down, and treat the slope with a biocide so the spores die back rather than move. A pressure wash on shallow pitched concrete tile forces water up under the lap, works the ridge mortar loose and strips the face off the tile. Cleaning one house in the middle of a run and leaving the rest is honest work but short lived, and we say so before you book rather than after. The local aspect is north east, so the slope that never dries is the one holding the growth.
The gable panels round here are usually tile hung, or a panel of render or pebbledash set into brick. Hung tiles are only nailed, so they get a low pressure rinse and a treatment, never a lance or a turbo nozzle behind the course. Render panels and the painted masonry over the door are soft washed.
Gutters that are not only yours. With 28.9% of the stock terraced, a run of Bearwood houses often shares one gutter and one downpipe between two or more homes. Clear your own length and the blockage two doors down still backs up over your fascia. We clear the whole run where we can get access, check the outlet and the joint above the bend, and tell you plainly if the fault is past your boundary so you have something to take to the neighbour.
On a tight estate plot your run off is your neighbour's problem within about a metre. Planting is sheeted, the gully and any drain covered, and solids bagged and taken away rather than sent down the pipe. We use only products approved for the surface they go on and work to the label, which is what the biocides regime the HSE administers requires, and we keep run off out of any watercourse in line with pollution prevention guidance. Most of the block paving here is original and the joints have held moss for decades, so it is lifted, washed and re-sanded, and where houses share a parking court it is worth getting the neighbours in on one visit.
How it runs
From your call to a written price
Bearwood is in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area and has no conservation area of its own, so washing a wall, a roof or a drive here needs no consent from anybody. If your address happens to be one of the three listed entries near here, cleaning is still maintenance, but painting or coating would not be, and the council keeps the list of conservation areas along with its listed building records. Nothing is left open or unusable overnight. The quote is itemised by surface, method and access, and on a shared run we set out what we can reach from your side and what needs the neighbour's agreement.
Cost
What decides the price of a clean
On a terrace the question is not how big the roof is, it is how much of it is yours to reach. A mid terrace comes off a pole from the front, an end of terrace gable usually wants a tower, and a rear extension roof behind a narrow side gate has to be carried in by hand. The work at height rules decide which of those goes on the quote. Ask what method each surface gets, whether a treatment is included or only a rinse, and where the run off is going.
If there is a date
A viewing, a visit or a deadline
Ring rather than use the form. Round here the date is often a letting inspection or a check out rather than a sale, so say which it is and we will tell you what can honestly be finished before it. We are four miles away, which makes short notice easier here than out in the villages. The phone is answered 24 hours for emergencies; scheduled work runs Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm.
Worth knowing
Your north slope is a different job from your south one
The land here faces roughly north east, and the estate was laid out to it, so a lot of Bearwood houses have one roof slope and one wall that get no direct sun from October to March. Those surfaces never fully dry.
Moss and algae establish on them several times faster than on the sunny elevation of the same house, which is why people ring convinced the back roof is failing when the front one looks new. It is the same tile, the same age and the same condition. It is simply wet for more of the year.
The practical consequence is that you should stop buying a clean for the whole house on the same interval. The sunlit elevation wants leaving alone far longer than most firms will tell you. The shaded slope wants the treatment, not just the wash, because a rinse on a surface that stays damp looks excellent for about six weeks.
It also wants the gutter above it kept clear, since an overflowing gutter keeps the wall below it wet all winter and undoes the clean from the top down. If something overhangs that side and you are able to cut it back, that will do more good than any product we can put on it.
Who you are dealing with
A local firm you can check
We are four miles from Bearwood, which means BH11 and the Magna Road side of the boundary are on our doorstep, along with Merley, West Parley and Broadstone. 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.
Questions
Bearwood questions we get asked
The rear slope faces north east. Does that explain the moss?
It does. The local aspect in Bearwood is north east, so back slopes get low sun in winter and nothing at all across the middle of the day. They stay damp, and moss keys into the tile surface while the front slope has dried out by mid morning. We treat the shaded slope and only price the sunny one where it genuinely needs the work doing.
Our gutter runs into next door's. Can it still be cleared?
Yes, and it generally has to be, because a shared run only drains at one end. Terraced homes are 28.9% of Bearwood, so the outlet frequently sits on a neighbour's length rather than yours. We need their agreement to work over the boundary, so a knock before we come saves a wasted visit. Clearing half a run only moves the blockage along, it does not remove it.
You are close by. Does that mean a quicker visit?
Bearwood is about four miles from the yard, so we are not building a trip around it and a look is normally a day or two away. That counts for most on the small things: a blocked outlet before a storm, or a downpipe you can hear running behind the fence. Those get sorted in an hour or two rather than waiting to be bundled into a bigger job.
Do the 1980s concrete tiles here take a wash?
They take a controlled one. The bulk of Bearwood went up in the 1980s, 34.6% of it in that period alone, and the concrete tile of the day has a coloured face laid over a grey body. Put a lance on it and the face comes away, and the roof never looks right again. Low pressure and a biocide leave the surface where it is, and the colour with it.
What do you do about parked cars on a narrow road?
We ask you to keep the drive clear and we work off that rather than the road wherever possible, because the van carries the water and has to sit within hose reach of the house. On the tighter Bearwood closes that can mean an early start before the street fills up. If access is genuinely blocked on the day we would sooner rebook it than rush the job through.
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