Roof Cleaning that suits Mary Tavy

What's actually different about Mary Tavy

There's a reason roof cleaning sits near the top of every Mary Tavy homeowner's list once spring arrives. Granite and exposed render take a hammering from horizontal Dartmoor rain six months of the year. West Devon Borough Council covers Mary Tavy, and building stock here is dominated by granite cottages and Victorian miners' terraces.

Old mining village on the A386 north of Tavistock, which shapes how roof cleaning on Dartmoor granite and lime render and natural slate actually plays out around PL19. Working out of PL19 we're rarely more than 15.3 miles from a Mary Tavy job.

Working-at-height planning is done before the visit, so the right access equipment arrives with the crew. Reviews are on Google, Facebook and Checkatrade — a mix that makes it harder to game the numbers. Winter bookings are quieter, so lead times drop from two weeks to a few days between November and February. Ridge tile re-bedding and any other small remedial work is quoted separately, never bundled into the wash price. Boundary walls, garage doors and bin stores usually get added to bigger visits at cost, not full rates. Biocide runs get re-tested for concentration at the top of every day, not the top of every week. Windows include the frames, the sills, the trickle vents and the cill drain holes, always. The rig gets rinsed after every job so cross-contamination between customers isn't ever a factor. Two-storey work is the same price as single-storey where the pole reaches — height alone doesn't drive the cost. There's a fixed weekend rate for genuine emergencies — no gouging, published on the enquiry email. Rain-day contingency is baked into the price — no extra charge if we come back a second day to finish. Traffic-film patches on driveways get a hot detergent pre-wash before any surface cleaner touches them. Conservatory glass roofs get a two-pass rinse because the profile holds pooled water otherwise. If a job goes wrong we say so on the invoice and we credit it — nothing gets buried. Materials data sheets are available on request for any product we use on any of our work.

Materials & methods we'd use here

Most Mary Tavy properties we treat have Dartmoor granite and lime render 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 across natural slate - quoted from photos in most cases, no doorstep survey.

• Method

  Full-pitch biocide softwash via low-pressure boom across natural slate - noted on granite cottages stock - the difference between a two-year finish and a five-year one.

• Method

  Ridge re-bedding in NHL hydraulic lime on older granite cottages and Victorian miners' terraces where mortar has failed - noted at very exposed exposure - handled with the same rig we use for coastal properties.

• Method

  Solar arrays worked around without disturbing fixings - common on newer Mary Tavy builds - noted in the West Devon Borough Council patch - the sort of visit that ends with a photo pack, not just an invoice.

Questions worth asking before you book

Where else in the PL19 area we book roof cleaning