Roof Cleaning in Polperro

What we see on Polperro properties

When neighbours start asking who did your roof cleaning, that's usually a Polperro homeowner mid-project with us. Working harbour village in a tight Cornish combe, which shapes how roof cleaning on painted lime render and stone and Cornish slate actually plays out around PL13.

Houses overlooking the harbour cop salt, diesel and gull droppings in one continuous coat. Quotes around Polperro usually go out the same evening. Exposure here is very exposed - 22.4 miles from our PL3 base makes turnaround short.

Payment is only ever after you've seen the photos and signed off, never up front. We keep two vans on the road, which is why illness or weather rarely pushes a booking more than a day or two. If a finish is not right, tell us and we will come back and look at it rather than argue about it. Softwash and pressure washing are two different jobs with two different rigs — we don't try to force one to do the other. Parking is where a lot of jobs go slow, so we ask about it up front rather than turn up and hope. Second-home owners tend to book us on annual visits with a photo pack rather than being on site. Roof re-bed work gets its own dedicated day — nobody wants a wet roof left open overnight. Roof access ladders are inspected each morning and swapped out at the first sign of wear. We keep bookings deliberately short in summer so a hot week doesn't back the diary up for a month. Every job sheet lists the crew, the start time, the finish time and the litres of water used. 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. Conservatory glass roofs get a two-pass rinse because the profile holds pooled water otherwise. The office answers between eight and seven six days a week — we don't hide behind an inbox. Materials data sheets are available on request for any product we use on any of our work.

Where it usually starts in Polperro

• Tile valleys jammed with moss spilling into gutters - common on harbour town stock at this exposure - on painted lime render and stone - the reason we keep this round on a tight schedule.
• Black algae streaks running down Cornish slate after a wet winter in Polperro - across Cornish slate - a pattern we see through the shoulder seasons.
• Bird-and-moss debris collecting around solar arrays on harbour town layouts - on whitewashed fishermen's cottages stock - typically half a day, sometimes a full day if access is tight.
• Moss lifting individual Cornish slate where bedding mortar has failed - at very exposed exposure - handled from a pole not a ladder wherever we can.
• Hip tile mortar weathering on the south slope of Cornish slate - in the Cornwall Council patch - a job where getting the order right matters more than the products.

Honest answers to common questions

Neighbouring areas on the roof cleaning round