[pdhanson]

Does anyone know a cure for mossy roofs?

I have a few houses where the roof tiles are usually ok to walk on, but in muggy weather like now the moss makes them too slippery.

I thought of carrying some bleach or something in a little spray bottle so it would be ok the next time.

Anyone had any success with this?

Silly

[Ken]

Pole system, surely?!

[shinnyshinner]

Hi
I have this problem with a few of my jobs and spoke to the customers about starting up a service to pressure wash these down, I told about Health and safety and said if I had enough people interested I'd buy the equipment. Been a lot interest.
Alan

[Majestic]

Only one cure for a  mossy  roof dont clean it , tell them you will knock 50p off the price , if you slip you could be out of work for weeks and its not worth a couple of quid  

[STEVE71163]

Like John i would not clean it unless i could use a wfp. I would rather lose 50p than break my neck  :

Steve

[karlosdaze]

The last roof I had to walk on, the guy kindly left out 2 small planks of wood. All be it said, that the roof wasn't mossy. I remember once covering custom made wood wheel jacks with carpet, this did the trick!
I did get some literature on a product specially made for this through the post, I've hunted high and low, and can't find it. It was really expensive though, if I find it I'll post it.

[karlosdaze]

The link is:-
http://www.provisiontools.com/prod2.htm
1 pairs of roof boots were $40.50 inc shipping.
Pivot ladder tool each were $84.95 inc shipping.
Platforms each $32.45 inc shipping.
Company based in Tennessee.

[denzle]

Silly,
Could be an opening for an add on service there mate.
We do a lot of pressure washing of drives and roofs and the money isn't bad. You do need to fork out a fair bit though on a decent pressure washer.
I had one customer where all the front upstairs window were only accessable from off a roof that was getting dangerous, i had to tell her that unless she had the roof cleaned we would have to leave those windows in future.... guess what, she stumped up £70 and we cleaned the roof, now we are both happy.
Denzle

[shinnyshinner]

Hi denzle
This is what I was looking into
After having a look through your web site where did you get yr pressure washer attachment for doing paths the round attachment and what is it called
Cheers
Alan

[denzle]

Alan,
That piece of kit is called a "Whirlaway" surface cleaner and is a great bit of kit.It cleans an 18" strip of driveway each pass. It doesn't splash water all over the windows or blow gravel everywhere. Its like using a hover mower that is attached to your pressure washer, you just slowly walk up and down the drive with it and hey presto.... one clean drive or patio.
Its no good on tarmac as it would rip it up. The only downside is the price at about £600 plus a good pressure washer to feed it. We also have other types of lances including a tubo lance which will shift anything and a 21' extending lance for house and roof cleaning from the ground.
I use a 13HP Honda job with a 200 bar ( 3000psi ) output at about 5 gallons per minute. If you need any more info just let me know.
Denzle

[shinnyshinner]

Hi Denzle
Thanks for yr rely mate
That sounds like a nice bit of kit and a good set up you have.
I was looking into the tow jetters (Harbon)with the same sort of spec what you talk about but think water flow is about 8gph but might be too big also very good for drain work which also getting into.
Alan

[Steven Shoreditch]

 

[Moderator David@stives]

It is seven years old now, the topic starter was P hanson who used to be a mod here and went on to be a a staunch wfp advocate and now works for  Ionics, Steve went on to start his own forum, at least 2 of the others post under different user names now.

Dave

[Steven Shoreditch]

 

[Moderator David@stives]

Karlosdaze runs robinson solutions blogspot, nice guy to get drunk with.

[Londoner]

It was like a trip down memory lane seeing some of those names. What ever happened to Shinnyshiner ? and Majestic?

It also shows how we have moved on. Would anybody today be posting about walking on a mossy roof? This forum has made changes happen and despite constant sniping on the "other" forum I do believe its the best.

[Dave Willis]

I think Majestic is still around wasn't he John Garnet? I could be wrong.

I really like the website he has.                www.majesticwindowcleaning.co.uk/

[Nathanael Jones]

I think Majestic is still around wasn't he John Garnet? I could be wrong.

John is still on a few other forums, but he's not here anymore.
He trades as Majestic cleaning services in fleetwood & blackpool area's,.. he's easy enough to google if you want to send him a message & let him know he's missed here!

[Dave Willis]

  No probs - I know of two other places to chat with him. 

He's got one of those coat of arms badges these days too.

[G Griffin]

 They all slipped off mossy roofs.