Mothecombe roof cleaning, done properly

What we see on Mothecombe properties

When neighbours start asking who did your roof cleaning, that's usually a Mothecombe homeowner mid-project with us. South Hams estate hamlet at the mouth of the Erme with a private beach, which shapes how roof cleaning on painted lime render and stone and natural slate actually plays out around PL8.

Salt-loaded south-westerlies drive everything into the windward elevations and leave a film the rain doesn't budge. We tend to batch Mothecombe bookings with jobs in Holbeton the same week. Exposure here is very exposed - 9.6 miles from our PL3 base makes turnaround short.

Winter bookings are quieter, so lead times drop from two weeks to a few days between November and February. We keep two vans on the road, which is why illness or weather rarely pushes a booking more than a day or two. Landlords with multiple properties get a single monthly invoice covering every visit, not one per address. Small jobs get done in the gap between larger jobs, which is why one-off cleans aren't more expensive here. The kit gets pressure-tested weekly, which is boring but it's why we haven't had a rig failure on a customer job. Our repeat rate for annual bookings sits north of eighty percent, which is where our diary planning starts. The vac pole extends to forty feet which covers the vast majority of domestic three-storey gutter work. Extras are always agreed on the day in writing before any additional work starts. Waste from moss removal gets bagged, weighed and taken to a licensed green-waste facility. 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. For solar-panel arrays the panel owner's approach method takes precedence over ours, always. 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.

Where it usually starts in Mothecombe

• Tile valleys jammed with moss spilling into gutters - common on coastal village stock at this exposure - across natural slate - something we quote weekly in this postcode.
• Black algae streaks running down natural slate after a wet winter in Mothecombe - on stone cottages stock - a factor we build into every softwash quote here.
• Roof valleys spilling water sideways during heavy rain in Mothecombe - at very exposed exposure - usually easier once the outside taps are back on in April.
• Hip tile mortar weathering on the south slope of natural slate - in the South Hams District Council patch - typically half a day, sometimes a full day if access is tight.
• Roof-vent grilles blocked with bird-and-moss material on stone cottages and Georgian estate houses - 9.6 miles from PL3 - worth combining with the gutters if they're due at the same time.

Honest answers to common questions

Neighbouring areas on the roof cleaning round