Exterior cleaning in Everton

Roof cleaning is the big job here. Everton has a lot of bungalows, and a bungalow is roughly twice the roof for the same floor area. That is a lot of concrete interlocking tile, much of it laid in the post-war decades and porous enough by now to hold moss like a sponge.

The growth is scraped off dry, the tile is soft washed at low pressure and then treated so the spores left in the surface do not bring the regrowth back the following winter. No water is forced up under the lap. The upside of a low roof is real: no scaffold, no tower on most of them, and the ridge and the verges get looked at properly while we are there.

Post-war Everton is a lot of painted masonry and pebbledash, and a bungalow presents it as one long face rather than two storeys of it. Two and a half kilometres from the sea, salt keeps that face damp between showers, so growth returns faster than it does inland and the biocide matters more than the wash. Black spot lichen and algae take the sheltered elevations first, and soft washing lifts it over a few weeks without touching the paint. A jet wash held close will take paint, and on pebbledash it takes the pebbles too, and then it is a repair, not a clean.

The long, low gutters in Everton hold a surprising amount, and gutter clearing is best done after the roof. Where a garage or a carport discharges onto a drive rather than into a gully, we will tell you, because that is usually the reason one strip of the paving is always green. Block paving is re-sanded after washing, since the wash takes the jointing sand out with the weed, and sealing only works on genuinely dry paving. Felt and rubber flat roofs get cleared and washed gently, no pressure, because the only thing between you and the deck is a membrane. Everything applied is a biocide sold for the surface and used to its label, which is what the biocides regime the HSE administers requires.

No cleaning quote should hang on square metres. The growth on each surface is what sets the hours. The surface. Render that stays damp from the sea air, a flat roof membrane and a clay or concrete tile roof each need a different pressure. Render takes a low pressure soft wash with a biocide. Too much pressure on a membrane or a soft render does damage.

The growth. Sea air keeps surfaces damp between showers, so algae and lichen grow well on the seaward sides. Thick moss on a roof is scraped by hand, which takes longer than a rinse. A biocide carries on working for weeks after, which is why the full result is not seen on the day. Biocides are controlled under the biocides regime the HSE administers.

Reach. A bungalow you can walk a pole around is one job. A chalet with dormers over a narrow side path, or a detached house with a conservatory across the back, needs more setting up before a hose is unrolled. Work at height rules settle whether a tower is needed.

When you compare, ask what goes on each surface, whether a return visit is included, and where the water goes.

We clean roofs, render and drives in Everton, Hordle, Milford on Sea, Lymington and the SO41 villages behind the coast, working out of our base in Boscombe, Bournemouth, 10.8 miles away. This part of SO41 comes under New Forest District Council.

You would be dealing with Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719. Thomas Hannen, who owns it, checks every surface and prices the clean himself. A verified customer on Checkatrade rated us 10 out of 10. There is no charge for the visit, or for the written quote with each item set out. Before you book a visit in Everton, you can read our customers' Google reviews, word for word, on our reviews page.

Most repairs in Everton need no application at all. What decides whether a change to the outside of your house does is who the council is, whether a conservation area or a listing applies, and whether the place sits in a protected landscape.