Cleaning Roof Shingles Tampa

1. Cleaning Roof Shingles Tampa Cleaning An Asphalt Shingle Roof | Step-By-Step 1. Protect All Vegetation - Pre Soak and Direct Flow Of Gutters - Before we get started cleaning our roof we want to make sure that all vegetation is completely pre-soaked, with water. This process will insure all cells of the plant are saturated, and when the cells are saturated, the plant will not absorb our chemical through the leaf layer. You still will need to post rinse though, for extra plant protection and insurance. 2. Mix Your Roof Cleaning Chemicals in your garden sprayer. Refer to the mix ratios above. Start with a 50/50 mix for most asphalt shingle roofs, this will insure your chemical is “hot” enough to actually get a result you would be happy with. 3. Start High On The Roof - Work your way from top to bottom applying and even coat of "roof cleaning chemical." Some like to toss a 1/4 cup of gain green dish liquid (not the laundry detergent) in their mix to allow a slower run of chemicals down the roof. This helps our active ingredient stay wet longer so it has time to work on the algae we are trying to kill. 4. Less Chemical Is More - Less in more in the sense that you shouldn’t have chemicals running like a river down your roof. If you are using a garden sprayer, you are not likely to get this type of volume out of your sprayer so you probably don't need to worry about this portion. 5. Double Treat Problem Areas - If algae hasn’t disappeared or turned a white color within 5 minutes of applying the first coat of roof cleaning chemical, reapply in the same fashion. Some fire moss and other overgrown moss may give you trouble because it is a much more hearty version of the gloeocapsa magma (the black algae) so you will have either two options to kill it and remove it from your roof. Spray more chemicals on it, until it turns white, or spray a hotter mix of chemicals on it again until it turns white and is dead. (refer to the ratio diagram above) 6. Re-Soak Plants that could have received mist or a coating from the Pool Shock mixture that you just applied. This is the step most young professionals skip and sadly, if you skip it, it can cost you your landscape. Re Soaking and rinsing your plants after you have applied your chemical insures that your plants will live a long life after your roof cleaning treatment has done its work. You especially want to do this if you know that you have gotten some overspray on the plants previously. - This is a VERY important step! Do not skip it! 7. Safely come down from the roof on a ladder and allow the process to work organically. After applying there is nothing else that you need to do, just let the chemical do the work. After applying there is nothing else that you need to do, just let the chemical do the work. Check back in a few weeks to see if any chemical needs to be reapplied to the roof shingles,if so bookmark this page so you can refer back to the chemical mix ratios when you need to. Check out cleaning roof shingles Tampa.