Welcome to summer!!

Where is the year going so quickly? It seems the last time I looked out the window it was still snowing, and now here we are down to the 4th of July Already!!
Well they say that time sure flys when your having fun, so I guess we must be having fun!!

Yes I do really enjoy what I do, and in the cleaning industry there is a lot of different areas that our services take us. When I started pressure washing in 2001 I had no idea what all things would need to be cleaned. From power washing trucks to farm machinery to washing house siding. Then came a new request one day, can you clean the black streaks off of my Pennsylvania roof? Well I thought I probably could be cause I had a big pressure washer. So I did the job and it came out looking really nice, but there was something that bothered me. There was quite a bit of shingle grit in the gutters. Oh?? I thought this can't be a good thing. So later I was asked again the clean a roof, and I thought this time we will use a low pressure to wash the roof, well when I was finished I checked the gutter again and there was a little of the shingle granules in them but not nearly as much, but still to much for my liking. So I thought there has to be a better way to do this. So I started talking ith some other companies that were offering roof cleaning as a service and I picked their brains a little and learned this is something that you don't want to use a power washer on!! OH!!

I was told a pressure washer is designed to clean dirt, and those ugly black streaks on your roof is not dirt!! OH!! The black streaks are a algae that is actually living and growing on the roof, and is feeding off the limestone that is used to make the shingle. So I learn that algae is a pest and it should be treated as a pest. A pressure washer will clean the area making it look good, but the algae is still there and will return quickly because it was not killed, anly cleaned off.

Did you ever have some dandelions in your yard that you wanted to get rid of? What did you do? Just pop the head off? Bet it was back in no time wasn't it? That is because the root was still there thriving very well in the soil, same is true with the aglae on the roof. Those ugly black streaks can be washed off, but if not killed, it will return very quickly.

I will add more to this at a later time but before I run I do want to stress, do not use a pressure washer to save your roof!!! You will do more damage than good!!

Please check out our website for photos of homes in the Harrisburg PA area that we have made their roof look like new again!!

http://www.streakfreeroof.com/

717-961-5477
Call us now to save your roof!!