How To Clean Your Roof Stains

Bring your garden hose or water sprayer up to the roof.

How to clean your roof stains.

Rv detailing tips that shows how to simplify your roof cleaning efforts. Use a garden hose to rinse the stains and cleaning solution from the roof. Spray your cleaning solution. How to clean roof stains wash your shingles where the sun doesn t shine.

Algae can be killed and the stains removed using chemical cleaners though they usually return over time. Fit a squeeze trigger nozzle onto the end of your garden hose turning it clockwise to tighten and turn the pressure on high. Set the nozzle at the highest pressure setting and hold it 12 inches from the shingles. They spray it on the roof and wait for it to dry and then re apply it several times as needed.

Allow the oxygen bleach to sit on the shingles for 20 minutes. Allow the bleach to remain on for 15 to 20 minutes then rinse it off with a hose. Mix your cleaning solution. While specialized eco friendly roof cleaners are available they are a little more.

Here s how to clean the. Rinse the section of the soffit you just scrubbed washing away all of the dirt and rinsing enough to clear the surface of detergent and bleach. Black streaks on the north and west facing and shaded. Allow the oxy bleach mixture to sit on the shingles for about 15 minutes.

Use a cleaner specially made for killing algae or by spraying a mixture of one part bleach to four parts water with tsp trisodium phosphate or other detergent added in a garden pump up sprayer. The chlorine bleach roof cleaning method roof cleaning contractors who use sodium hypochlorite chlorine bleach mix it in high concentrations with other chemicals such as trisodium phosphate also known as tsp. Out on location darren shows yet another use for one of his professional detailing. Do shingles on your north west or other shaded roofs have streaky moldy stains.

Soak the shingles with water. Rinse from the top of the roof down to avoid re staining the shingles with the dirty water. Make your shingles last longer. Set the garden hose on the spray setting with the highest pressure water and hold the nozzle close to the shingles when rinsing.