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We offer roof cleaning for various roofing surfaces, including Hialeah's popular asphalt shingle roof. As many are beginning to discover, they can develop unpleasant dark streaks and even moss development. In the text that follows below, we will help you better comprehend what triggers these stains, exactly how to eliminate them and how preventative upkeep can maintain your home's curb appeal and maximize home value!
What Are Those Ugly Roof Stains?
This discoloration on your roofing is really blue green algae named Gloeocapsa magma. This is an air-borne algae that can easily relocate from roof top to roof top and also rapidly spread throughout any neighborhood. Like any algae, the best environment for spreading are damp, humid and also shaded locations. Development typically begins on the north side of structures. These locations generally obtain even more staining and take longer to dry out from nighttime dew and/or rainfall.
Why Is It On My Roofing Shingles?
Shingle makers started to change the make-up of their shinigles in the 70's and 80's. Their brand-new idea was to include limestone which is an excellent food resource for the algae,. This algae can hold water on your roofing and also imitate a magnifying glass elevating your roofing system's temperature and ultimately raising the cost of air conditioning. If left to get worse, this development will certainly also trigger granule loss and eventually shorten the lifetime of your roof.
Roof algae alone is not a reason for having a pricey roofing system replacement. If your roofing system is in good problem, you can be certain that a risk-free professional roof cleaning will recover its beauty as well as help preserve its long life.
If you are uncertain whether it's time to replace your roofing, you can do a cursory roof inspection to try to find several of the common indicators of aging. Some indications are; loosened roof shingles, extreme granule loss accumulated in the gutters, missing out on shingles as well as mis-shaped or thin shingles.
How Do You Get Rid of These Stains?
There will always be claims of different means to do any type of job, yet there is just one secure as well as authorized technique for roof tile cleaning. We strictly follow the suggestions outlined and also recommended by ARMA (Asphalt Roof Covering Manufacturers Organization) as well as significant roof shingle producers like GAF and also Owens Corning.
The process include a "Low Pressure" application of the advised cleansing detergent that is made to securely eliminate any type of algae, moss, lichens and airborne pollutants. This application makes use of no more pressure than a modest to hefty rain. High pressure is never utilized on asphalt shingles. This can invalidate the roof manufacturer's warranty as well as cause considerable granule loss, which as stated previously, leads to a roof's inability to reflect heat, in turn elevating your house's air conditioning bills as well as decreasing longevity.
Preventative Upkeep?
Roof covering algae will at some point return to a roofing, some sooner than others. As in the past, it will begin extremely tiny and also unnoticed. The more ground it covers, the much faster it will begin to spread. We suggest having a minor roof cleaning every couple of years to keep the algae from taking hold again. This can differ from house to residence depending upon color, humidity, as well as dampness levels during the year.