Cleanliness is an aspect of personality. It also ensures good looks and health. If you like cleanliness you would never want your home to look filthy. Regular cleaning of the home and surroundings can be easily carried out by anyone but when it comes to the roof things get a bit tricky.
Roof cleaning is a job that may require specialized knowledge and equipment that you may not have and without proper training to deal with various deposits on your roof, the cleaning may not achieve the target with which it was initiated.
Roof cleaning is essential
The roof is the most exposed part of any building. It is also a part that bears the harshest assault of nature and has the fit conditions for allowing the growth of various life forms like moss, lichens, algae, fungus, etc. These growths can not only make a roofing job look delipidated, ugly, and poorly maintained they can also cause damage to the structure of the roof and the materials used in it.
Organic growth is a big nuisance
One of the biggest problems with such growths is that they are able to spread very fast and may spoil the material used for roofing. The moss, algae, and other such organisms have a great capacity to retain water and hence they will make the structure overbearing and unsafe in the long run by putting extra load. The fungi spores growing on the roof can start eating the tar used as waterproofing material on the roofs. Tar is ideal nutrition for them as it is made up of fossils and hence your roofing might get damaged.
Algae and moss can eat shingles
Algae and moss feed on limestone, it is the material generally used for making shingles and hence overgrowth of these organisms can lead to loss of shingles.
Lichens and moss will make the structure overbearing and unsafe
Lichen and moss have the capacity to retain water and hence they will cause the roof to get overburdened with the weight of excess water retained by them. Excess weight on the roof is never a very good thing as it may cause lead to loosening, breakage, displacement, bulking or warping of tiles. If this happens it will be very unfortunate as it could have been easily avoided by the preemptive measure of cleaning.
Trust the experts
Cleaning the roof requires specialized knowledge as some parts need to be cleaned softly whereas others might require pressure cleaning. The cleaning agents regularly used in homes might not be that effective in this cleaning and hence the whole DIY expedition might fail counterproductively.
The professionals first technically observe the roof and assess the kind of cleaning required. They are experts in this job and will be able to understand the need for deep cleaning or soft cleaning. Hence, in any way, it is going to be a beneficial thing for you.
Understanding these things will help you in making an informed decision about the cleaning of your roof as you will be able to identify the gains and risks of the job. It is always a prudent decision to let the experts do the job where you do not possess the specialized knowledge as it will be the right thing to do.