Need to clean my roof - dark stains, etc. Looking at;
- Roof-be-clean
- RD-30 Roof Cleaner
- Kleen-Roof
I have done newsgroup searches, but nothing comes up on these particular
products.
Any experience with these? or any others that work?

thanks - jim

Spam Me Knot wrote:
Need to clean my roof - dark stains, etc. Looking at;
- Roof-be-clean
- RD-30 Roof Cleaner
- Kleen-Roof
I have done newsgroup searches, but nothing comes up on these particular
products.
Any experience with these? or any others that work?
thanks - jim

Although I do not recognize the products you cite for cleaning roofs, I
did use one along with the recommended bleach solution. It did clean
the shingles when used with a pressure washer set at low pressure, but I
finally gave up when I realized that unless ALL your neighbors also
clean their roofs, your roof cleaning is only temporary. I believe it
is mildew and fungus that is the cause of the stains, and unless you can
stop the wind blown transfer from other roofs, you will soon be back as
square one.

Perhaps some day someone will make shingles with an additive that will
prevent such stains? For what it is worth, I have watched roofs that
used the zinc strips to prevent this from happening, and even it is not
completely effective. It might help, but it did not completely stop
them from occurring. After having gone to a light colored roof to
reduce attic heat, I think my next shingles will be DARK in color so
that the stains are not as visible.

I use straight bleach with a garden sprayer. Get on the roof spray a
section, wait a few minutes and then hose it down. For each section I start
at the top and run down to the gutter otherwise you can get streaking. I
have a light brown shingle, bleach does not seem to change the color at all.
You should test a section first. This lasts for at least 2 years on the
shaded part of the house and more on the southern exposure which kills the
stuff from the heat. I do have a good brand of shingle(25 year type). They
have been on the roof now for 22 years and all seems ok and I have done this
every two years for sure in the last 10 years.

Make sure it is a calm day for wind as you are dropping bleach down the
gutters and off sections with no gutters and you do not want the run off to
hit the house and such. I am also stingy on the wash off in the sense that
you do not need high pressure, just reduce the concentration down to a point
that if dries with some bleach left, this inhibits future growth. i.e. you
are not trying to remove all the bleach with the wash down.

Tom

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Need to clean my roof - dark stains, etc. Looking at;
- Roof-be-clean
- RD-30 Roof Cleaner
- Kleen-Roof
I have done newsgroup searches, but nothing comes up on these particular
products.
Any experience with these? or any others that work?
thanks - jim