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Thick moss cushions on a Norbiton terrace or lichen freckling a Coombe roof do more than spoil the view. We scrape, steam or gently wash Kingston roofs clean, treat them against regrowth and clear the gutters of everything that comes down.
From the street a mossy roof can look almost charming, a soft green quilt over the tiles. Up close it is a waterlogged blanket. Every clump drinks in rain and holds the tile under it damp for days, pushes at the lap between courses when the temperature drops below freezing, and sooner or later lets go in lumps that drop into the gutter and seal the outlets. Professional roof cleaning Kingston-upon-Thames homeowners can rely on starts with patient hand work: bespoke scrapers, profiled to the exact curve of your tiles, slide along each row and peel the growth away without levering anything loose.
The next stage is matched to the roofing material. Hard-wearing concrete interlocking tiles are fine with a soft, low-pressure rinse to carry off the fine residue. Clay plain tiles and natural slate, common on Kingston’s older houses, are steam cleaned instead, letting heat rather than pressure release the algae and crusty lichen. A biocidal treatment can then be misted over the clean tiles, discouraging moss, algae and lichen from settling back in. Last of all comes the gutter clear, since a moss removal job that leaves the guttering clogged with green debris has only shifted the problem a couple of metres lower.
Kingston hugs the eastern bank of the Thames, with Richmond Park’s wooded slopes on one side and the Hogsmill running through the south of the borough. Damp air drifts in from all of them, and on still autumn mornings the river mist lingers over the rooftops of the old town and Canbury. North-facing slopes in particular never quite dry out between showers. In the long terraced streets of North Kingston and Norbiton, where one row shades the back of the next all winter, those slopes can be carpeted within a few years.
Roof coverings change as you move around KT1 and KT2. Victorian and Edwardian houses commonly carry Welsh slate or handmade-style clay plain tiles: long-lived materials, but brittle under careless boots or high-pressure water. Their rear additions often have shallow pitches where moss gathers thickest of all. Post-war homes on the slopes towards Kingston Hill usually wear concrete interlocking tiles, whose sandy texture gives moss and lichen a firm grip. In Coombe, substantial detached houses beneath oak and beech collect leaf litter in valleys and behind chimneys, which rots down into a perfect seedbed.
For these reasons we never pick a method until we have seen the roof. Material, age and pitch decide whether it is scraped and steamed or scraped and rinsed, and conservatories, glass roofs and borders below are protected while we work. Stripping away the moss also gives a clear view of the tiles, so any that have slipped or cracked are pointed out for you to pass to a roofer. We cover all of Kingston-upon-Thames, from the riverside conservation streets up to Coombe Hill.
Four stages, with the method tuned to your tiles before any work starts.
Photos and a close look tell us whether we are dealing with slate, clay or concrete, how sound it is and how deep the moss runs, so the safest combination of techniques can be agreed.
Working down the slope a row at a time, made-to-measure scrapers strip the heavy growth without forcing tiles upward, and the debris is collected rather than swept off the edge.
Steam deals with the remaining film on clay and slate, while sturdier concrete tiles get a soft, low-pressure rinse, taking the roof back to a clean, even colour.
If you have chosen biocide, it goes on at this point to slow regrowth, after which every gutter and downpipe is emptied of moss so the next downpour drains freely.
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Moss creeps up so gradually that most people stop noticing it. A roof clean is worth considering when you see any of the following:
Tackling growth while it is still shallow is easier on the tiles and quicker to do. It also stops the steady supply of moss that keeps refilling your gutters every autumn and winter.
A Canbury terrace and a Coombe detached house are worlds apart, so no two roof quotes look alike. The figure takes account of:
Clear photos of every slope, shot from wherever you can see them, let us settle on a fixed figure, usually that same day.
Done correctly, yes. We do not jet wash roofs, because a powerful jet can pit tile faces and push rain up beneath the overlaps. Slate and clay are cleared by hand scraping and finished with steam, while tougher concrete tiles can be given a gentle, low-pressure rinse.
It holds regrowth back for a good while, but the exact period varies with shade, overhanging trees and how damp your roof tends to stay. Kingston homes beside the Thames or close to Richmond Park can see moss return sooner than a sunny, open roof elsewhere in the borough.
We do. A roof clean inevitably drops a lot of material into the guttering, so emptying every run and testing the downpipes is part of the job rather than an optional extra. Otherwise the blockage would simply move from your tiles to your eaves.
Certainly. Slate calls for a light touch, so it is scraped by hand and steamed, never blasted. While we are up there we also look for slates that have slipped or cracked and let you know, so a roofer can secure them before they cause a leak.
Given enough time, it can. Moss keeps tiles damp, can prise up tile edges when trapped water freezes, and continually feeds debris into the gutters, causing blockages and overflow. Removing it helps the roof shed water as designed and keeps your drainage working.
Yes. Roof cleaning removes growth without altering the slate or tiles themselves, so the character of the roof is unchanged. On period homes in Kingston’s older streets we take extra care, using gentle methods suited to traditional materials and checking flashings and ridge tiles as we go.
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Moss is just as stubborn in the suburbs and villages around Kingston, and we remove it there too. The links below cover each of them.
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