Honest roof cleaning for Kelly Bray homes

What we see on Kelly Bray properties

If the roof cleaning at your Kelly Bray property has started looking tired, you're not alone. Granite, cob and lime-rendered cottages all need handling differently from a modern render. Kelly Bray sits in Cornwall at PL17, close enough to gunnislake that we regularly share visits.

Mining-era village on the A388 just north of Callington, which shapes how roof cleaning on granite and painted render and Cornish slate actually plays out around PL17. Crews are based 13.6 miles away in PL3, so callouts to Kelly Bray are short.

We aim to send the written quote inside the same evening you get in touch, and we don't chase you afterwards. We work the softer end of the pressure range by default, and only step up when a surface genuinely wants it. Working-at-height planning is done before the visit, so the right access equipment arrives with the crew. Where photographs are agreed, they can document the visible condition of the surface and the completed work. Cameras go on the vac pole as standard so you see the gutter before and after, not just take it on trust. Boundary walls, garage doors and bin stores usually get added to bigger visits at cost, not full rates. Sub-zero mornings we wait until 10am to start softwash — the biocide simply doesn't work well below freezing. Windows include the frames, the sills, the trickle vents and the cill drain holes, always. Every job carries a written scope, a written price and a written finish standard — no ambiguity. Extras are always agreed on the day in writing before any additional work starts. Communication defaults to WhatsApp because photo threads keep quotes and outcomes in one place. Fascia paint repair we don't do, but we'll flag it and hand you a shortlist of decorators we trust. For solar-panel arrays the panel owner's approach method takes precedence over ours, always. Traffic-film patches on driveways get a hot detergent pre-wash before any surface cleaner touches them. Materials data sheets are available on request for any product we use on any of our work.

Materials & methods we'd use here

Most Kelly Bray properties we treat have granite and painted render walls and a Cornish slate roof. That changes a few of the choices we'd make.

• Method

  Aluminium roof ladders sized for the pitch typical of Cornish slate - noted at roughly 50.516,-4.311 - a job with a proper written scope, no verbal add-ons.

• Method

  Full-pitch biocide softwash via low-pressure boom across Cornish slate - noted on granite and painted render - the reason our reviews mention 'no surprises' more than anything.

• Method

  Solar arrays worked around without disturbing fixings - common on newer Kelly Bray builds - noted across Cornish slate - still small enough to fix in one visit, big enough to be worth doing.

• Method

  Access planned around the pitch and ridge height before the visit on rural village sites - noted on Victorian terraces stock - and it's exactly the sort of job the fleet was set up for.

Where it usually starts in Kelly Bray

• Thick moss on the Callington-facing slopes of Cornish slate - on Victorian terraces stock - a job we tend to batch with neighbouring runs.
• Lichen crusts ridge tiles on rural village properties - slow to clear but it does go - at exposed exposure - the sort of thing owners notice from the road first.
• Tile valleys jammed with moss spilling into gutters - common on rural village stock at this exposure - in the Cornwall Council patch - handled from a pole not a ladder wherever we can.
• Skylight surrounds collecting moss debris on rural village properties - 13.6 miles from PL3 - and it's why we default to the softer end of the pressure range.
• Chimney crown moss-colonised at Kelly Bray's exposed exposure - at roughly 50.516,-4.311 - a job with a proper written scope, no verbal add-ons.

Nearby areas we also cover

Things Kelly Bray customers ask us first