Gentle Cedar Roof Cleaning
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Here's a brief explanation of why it's important to keep a cedar roof clean, and a low-cost method to do that.
The method shown is not for everyone, as it doesn't provide "instant" results. However, this is by far the gentlest, most eco-friendly, and least expensive method of cleaning a cedar roof that we have found.
This method is effective on both cedar and asphalt roofs.
Outside Cleaners has been washing roofs on Cape Cod (and beyond) since 2012. For more info, please visit us at www.OutsideCleaners.com.
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Thanks for the compliment and thanks for watching
I’m a specialty roofer in NC and am always attempting to keep myself educated on the materials I use. This was a very easy to listen to video that has good solid information about cleaning cedar. I have seen cedar roofs here in the foothills needing replaced after only 15-20 years because of no maintenance being performed. Great video. 👍🏼👍🏼
This guy knows his stuff!
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I've watched all your videos. The house I purchased has 20 year old cedar shakes, and I don't think they were ever cleaned. and lots of trees around the property. I ended up using 6% sodium percarbonate in a sprayer, sit for 15 minutes and then rinsed. It was an improvement. Greenish and gray color gone. Still large traces of black left. I then reapplied S.P and scrubbed all the shingles with a medium stiff brush and then rinse rinse rinsed. It may not be perfect, but the brown tannins are showing much better. Hopefully, I didn't over do it.
Wow excellent video and info
Appreciate the video, I recently took Wizard of Woods course in NJ. Have you tried Sodium Metasilicate? I understand this may darken the wood, but a second step with Oxalic acid makes them bright again and also neutralize. Have you done that process before? Thanks!
Sodium metasilicate is a cleaner/degreaser. That’s fine if you’re trying to remove environmental pollutants from a surface, but in my experience it differs entirely from hydrogen peroxide in the sense that peroxide is much better at killing organic growth.
There are probably 1 million ways to clean a piece of wood, and so 1 million ways to clean a wood roof. The process I show here is just the dirt cheapest simplest easiest way I found to remove organic growth such as mold, algae, lichen, etc. Kill it and let time and gravity do the rest.
@Outside Cleaners Thanks for the response! Yes, I was trained recently as Metasilicate is more heavy duty with extra lifting abilities, also killing organics, Percarbonate a step down from that with great organic killing and regular cleaning abilities. I typically clean Aspalt with the usual 4-6% process. It's been awesome to learn these wood cleaning techniques! My company is on the south shore in Ma, working cape once in a while! Appreciate the help, and we always want to do the job right always! Thanks!
@@sundown798 thanks for the info.
If you're out this way, give me a call. Always enjoy meeting others in the industry.
@@sundown798 I meant to say, the big thing I don't like about sodium metasilicate on roofs is its tendency to fog or etch glass (skylights) if it dries. No worries about that with percarbonate.
First of all thank you for the information about cedar roofs, very informative. Is the Hydrogen Peroxide diluted with water 50/50 or full strength? The results are amazing, even if it takes 6mo it's much easier not having to rinse it off and environmentally friendly. I want to try this!
Katie thanks for watching. Mixing of the batch depends on a few things but in general, 1 cup of sodium percarbonate powder per gallon of water is a good rule of thumb. There’s some tricks to mixing which I’ll address in another video... when I have time 😝
Do you have any luck with using precarb on cleaning the gloeocapsa magma off the roof? I know results may not be fast but just curious it you have tried it on asphalt shingles.
Jeff, happy New Year. Sort answer is: “yes... depending on the details.”
Am putting together many more videos to address such things. Please stay tuned.
Will that work on painted metal roofs that have lichen? I’ve got quite the roof pitch. Is there something that can be added to help it cling?
it will kill lichen on pretty much any surface and you can add a surfactant or but sodium percarbonte with a surfactant in it already
any guidance as to what to use when the gutters are copper? thanks
Sodium percarb... as I illustrate here.
@@OutsideCleaners that's amazing
Was wondering what your thoughts are on the product, Wet and Forget on cedar shakes
ranmangolf thanks for watching. My opinion on Wet and Forget.... it’s “ok.” Through talking with customers who tried it, were disappointed with the results, and then called me, it’s my impression that it may need to be applied heavier and in higher concentration than the label indicates. Once that is done, I suspect it might not be cost competitive with other slow-acting options.
Is this purchased liquid or powder form and where can one buy it?
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What about vinegar? I hear also removes mold
So can one spray the roof with sodium percarbonate and rinse after a day or does it have to be left more than 6 months in order to do the job correctly? Glad I subscribed.
Hi, there's a zillion ways to go about this, I just illustrated an easy and cheap way. Rinsing options all depend upon the roof and the type of growth up there. If the shingles are older, I don't advocate any rinsing because that can damage compromised shingles. If the shingles are newer, then maybe you can gently rinse without damaging the cedar. Mold will readily rinse off, but many types of lichen won't.
The same method can be applied for tiles roof as-well?
George george I have cleaned slate roofs with this method, I’m not sure if that is the same as “tiled” roofs that you refer to. I haven’t personally cleaned those terra-cotta roofs that I see in pictures from down south, we don’t see those up north!
What is the ratio for mixing water and hydrogen peroxide?
From what ive read its sprayed full strength. I have as yet not found a direct answer to that question.
Will go with 50/50 12.5 SH method/
jude jude thanks for watching. Yeah, I estimate that 90% or more of the exterior cleaning industry is with you in using a strong chlorine bleach solution on cedar roofs. All methods have pros and cons though, and regional differences cause some methods to make more sense than others in each area of the country. Thanks again for watching.
This followed with a cedar shingle oil
So do you advise using sodium percarbonate over sodium hypochlorite for all roof types? Or is the SP better just for cedar roof? I clean siding with SH and have lots of success. People have been asking me to do their roofs so im looking for the best and safest option.
Aleks Yatskevich “best” is going to depend upon many factors: age and condition of the shingles, type of growth on the roof, extent of growth, architecture of the building, local weather, customers budget, etc. I’m aware of a few good ways to clean cedar roofs, this is just one.
So nice not to be hard sold 💝
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