Dousland's roof cleaning specialists

What's actually different about Dousland

There's a reason roof cleaning sits near the top of every Dousland homeowner's list once spring arrives. Slate roofs hold moss densely in this air, and gutters fill twice as fast under tree cover. Dousland sits in Devon at PL20, close enough to meavy that we regularly share visits.

Small Dartmoor village east of Yelverton on the road up to Princetown, which shapes how roof cleaning on painted render and Dartmoor granite and natural slate actually plays out around PL20. We're frequently in and around PL20, so booking-day flexibility is easier than people expect.

If we spot something on the visit that's cheaper for you to sort a different way, we'll say so. Insurance is £5m public liability with working-at-height paperwork on file for every roof visit. We never sub-contract out — the crew that quotes the job is the crew that does the job. Two of us live within twenty minutes of the yard, which is why booking flexibility is easier than customers expect. Kiln-dried sand goes back into block-paving joints on the same visit once the surface is dry enough. Sealer is optional on stone, and we'll usually recommend skipping it unless the finish specifically wants it. The most common repeat booking pattern we see is roof every three years, gutters every year, walls every two. Small jobs get done in the gap between larger jobs, which is why one-off cleans aren't more expensive here. We book the last Friday of each month as a catch-up day, so short-notice fixes rarely wait more than a fortnight. Roof re-bed work gets its own dedicated day — nobody wants a wet roof left open overnight. Every job carries a written scope, a written price and a written finish standard — no ambiguity. We keep bookings deliberately short in summer so a hot week doesn't back the diary up for a month. Kiln-dried sand is bought in bulk pallets, which keeps the driveway top-up cost small at the invoice end. Long-run gutters get flushed from both ends after clearing, not just one end. Conservatory glass roofs get a two-pass rinse because the profile holds pooled water otherwise.

Materials & methods we'd use here

Most Dousland properties we treat have painted render and Dartmoor granite walls and a natural slate roof. That changes a few of the choices we'd make.

• Method

  Aluminium roof ladders sized for the pitch typical of natural slate - noted on painted render and Dartmoor granite - one of the calls we get most in the wetter half of the year.

• Method

  Manual scrape and bag - moss never flushed into the gutters on your moorland village property - noted across natural slate - handled with the same rig we use for coastal properties.

• Method

  Ridge re-bedding in NHL hydraulic lime on older granite cottages and 1960s bungalows where mortar has failed - noted on granite cottages stock - and it's why we default to the softer end of the pressure range.

• Method

  Solar arrays worked around without disturbing fixings - common on newer Dousland builds - noted at very exposed exposure - a job with a proper written scope, no verbal add-ons.

Typical problems on Dousland properties

• Lichen crusts ridge tiles on moorland village properties - slow to clear but it does go - at very exposed exposure - a job we tend to batch with neighbouring runs.
• Black algae streaks running down natural slate after a wet winter in Dousland - in the West Devon Borough Council patch - why photos beat phone tag for this kind of work.
• Bird-and-moss debris collecting around solar arrays on moorland village layouts - 8.8 miles from PL3 - the sort of thing owners notice from the road first.
• Skylight surrounds collecting moss debris on moorland village properties - at roughly 50.499,-4.093 - the elevation that always dictates the price.
• Chimney crown moss-colonised at Dousland's very-exposed exposure - on painted render and Dartmoor granite - one of the calls we get most in the wetter half of the year.

Nearby areas we also cover

Things Dousland customers ask us first