How to clean roof tiles

[festive]

Hi, the roof on our house is covered in moss and those weird flat round yellow type vegetation etc growing on roof tiles (concrete corrugated tiles)

How do i clean it all off? Do i just steam clean from the top down, or is there a chemical i apply to bring the tiles up clean again?

Have had a search through this forum, couldn't find a definitive answer apart from the copper wire, which i will use after ive cleaned up.

TIA

 

[Nige F]

Lichen

 

[festive]

that's the stuff, ok how do i clean it all off...

 

[2scoops0406]

why do you want to?

 

[masona]

Best to leave it and enjoy it

 

[festive]

Enjoy it how and why? Not the answer im looking for!! Thanks anyway.

 

[breezer]

how about a mild / diluted soloution of bleach to kill it, then stiff brush to reomve it

do wear googles and gloves though

 

[2scoops0406]

Enjoy it how and why? Not the answer im looking for!! Thanks anyway.

Looks better than clean tiles, does no harm, waste of effort, etc etc.

Unless the moss rolls off the roof into the gutter, in which cas a stiff brushing is all that's required.

 

[joe-90]

Those little patches of lichen are often hundreds of years old. They are usually seen on gravestones.

I'd leave them if I were you.


joe

 

[splinter]

Those little patches of lichen are often hundreds of years old. They are usually seen on gravestones.

I'd leave them if I were you.


joe

THe roof is only 10 yrs old

 

[kevtrydiy]

I was going to remove mine too as I was told if it stays on too long it can eat the tiles!!

 

[Nige F]

Yum Yum Load of small balls.........10 yr house must have concrete tiles let them age/grow things naturally.....stick a few house leeks in the gutters too

 

[Mw Roofline]

Where abouts are you located festive?

 

[gasmanuk]

The best way to remove anything growing on your roof is to run a length of copper wire just below your ridge tiles. When it rains the copper slightly disolves and i mean slightly and copper kills algae, moss etc.

An old roofer told me this and a freind of mine did it on his roof and the moss fell off after a few weeks...