Concrete tile detached bungalow
Algae streaks down the seaward pitch — softwashed clean, dried evenly within 24 hrs.
Devon
Roof Cleaning that suits Bigbury
If the roof cleaning at your Bigbury property has started looking tired, you're not alone. Bungalows take the worst of it because there's nowhere for water to go but the wall itself.
What we see on Bigbury properties
If the roof cleaning at your Bigbury property has started looking tired, you're not alone. Bungalows take the worst of it because there's nowhere for water to go but the wall itself.
Above Burgh Island on the exposed South Hams coast, which shapes how exterior cleaning here actually plays out. Working out of TQ7 we're rarely more than 14.8 miles from a Bigbury job.
What good roof cleaning looks like here
- 1Roof ladders adjusted for the pitch typical of concrete tile and slate on coastal village properties
- 2Harness anchor verified before anyone leaves the ground on very-exposed coastal village sites
- 3Hip-tile and verge tiles inspected during the scrape on concrete tile and slate
- 4Solar arrays masked to keep softwash off the panels on newer Bigbury builds
- 5Chimney crown treated separately - common ask on coastal village stock in TQ7
Materials & methods we'd use here
Most Bigbury properties we treat have painted render and pebbledash walls and a concrete tile and slate roof. That changes a few of the choices we'd make.
- Method
Aluminium roof ladders sized for the pitch typical of concrete tile and slate
- Method
Manual scrape and bag - moss never flushed into the gutters on your coastal village property
- Method
Solar arrays worked around without disturbing fixings - common on newer Bigbury builds
- Method
£5m public liability and working-at-height paperwork on file for every coastal village site
Where it usually starts in Bigbury
- Thick moss on the Aveton Gifford-facing slopes of concrete tile and slate
- Lichen crusts ridge tiles on coastal village properties - slow to clear but it does go
- Bird-and-moss debris collecting around solar arrays on coastal village layouts
- Verge tiles slipping under moss weight on seafront villas and 1930s bungalows
- Roof valleys spilling water sideways during heavy rain in Bigbury
Recent roof cleaning in the area
Concrete interlocking tile, 1970s semi
Heavy north-side moss scraped and bagged, full softwash; gutters cleared as part of the visit.
Slate roof under tree cover
Heavy lichen and moss — manual scrape over two days, biocide finished it.
Things Bigbury customers ask us first
Honest recap (Bigbury)
roof cleaning isn't urgent until it is. Catch it on the way down and the price is small; leave it for a fourth winter and it becomes a project. Bigbury weather doesn't slow down for anyone.
Walk-around quote, fixed price, no follow-up phone calls - Bigbury
Send a few photos and a TQ7 address — we'll come back the same day with a written price for the roof cleaning at your Bigbury property.