Natural slate, granite chimneys
Mortar checked on the ridge during the job; one ridge tile re-bedded as a separate line item.
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Roof Cleaning - covering Tamerton Foliot and the PL5 area
If the roof cleaning at your Tamerton Foliot property has started looking tired, you're not alone. Granite, cob and lime-rendered cottages all need handling differently from a modern render.
What we see on Tamerton Foliot properties
If the roof cleaning at your Tamerton Foliot property has started looking tired, you're not alone. Granite, cob and lime-rendered cottages all need handling differently from a modern render.
Old village on the Tavy estuary swallowed by Plymouth's northern edge, which shapes how exterior cleaning here actually plays out. If you can see Southway from the end of your road, we cover you.
What good roof cleaning looks like here
- 1Mechanical scrape before any softwash, debris bagged - never swept into rural village gutters
- 2Ridge re-bedding flagged separately if slate and concrete tile mortar has failed on stone cottages and 1960s detached
- 3Hip-tile and verge tiles inspected during the scrape on slate and concrete tile
- 4Solar arrays masked to keep softwash off the panels on newer Tamerton Foliot builds
- 5Chimney crown treated separately - common ask on rural village stock in PL5
Materials & methods we'd use here
Most Tamerton Foliot properties we treat have painted render and stone walls and a slate and concrete tile roof. That changes a few of the choices we'd make.
- Method
Aluminium roof ladders sized for the pitch typical of slate and concrete tile
- Method
Manual scrape and bag - moss never flushed into the gutters on your rural village property
- Method
Ridge re-bedding in NHL hydraulic lime on older stone cottages and 1960s detached where mortar has failed
- Method
£5m public liability and working-at-height paperwork on file for every rural village site
Where it usually starts in Tamerton Foliot
- Thick moss on the Southway-facing slopes of slate and concrete tile
- Tile valleys jammed with moss spilling into gutters - common on rural village stock at this exposure
- Bird-and-moss debris collecting around solar arrays on rural village layouts
- Hip tile mortar weathering on the south slope of slate and concrete tile
- Skylight surrounds collecting moss debris on rural village properties
Recent roof cleaning in the area
Slate roof under tree cover
Heavy lichen and moss — manual scrape over two days, biocide finished it.
Concrete tile detached bungalow
Algae streaks down the seaward pitch — softwashed clean, dried evenly within 24 hrs.
Things Tamerton Foliot customers ask us first
Honest recap (Tamerton Foliot)
roof cleaning isn't urgent until it is. Catch it on the way down and the price is small; leave it for a fourth winter and it becomes a project. Tamerton Foliot weather doesn't slow down for anyone.
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Walk-around quote, fixed price, no follow-up phone calls - Tamerton Foliot
Send a few photos and a PL5 address — we'll come back the same day with a written price for the roof cleaning at your Tamerton Foliot property.