Professional Roof Cleaning in Chorley

The western edge of our patch

Chorley is the far side of our normal working area from the yard in Haslingden, and we treat it as a proper day rather than a quick call-out. That is worth saying plainly: we will come and look at the roof, we will quote a fixed price before we start, and if the job is not worth doing we will tell you. Euxton, Clayton-le-Woods, Whittle-le-Woods, Adlington and Coppull all come with it.

Not a terrace town, which changes the job

Most of our work is in old mill towns full of stone terraces. Chorley is not that. Of about 50,000 households in the district, roughly a third are semi-detached and another third detached, with terraces down at a quarter, and the housing stock sits in higher council tax bands than the Lancashire average. In practice that means bigger, newer, steeper roofs with their own gutter runs rather than shared ones, and far more concrete interlocking tile than natural slate.

Concrete tile is the one people ruin

Concrete is a softer and more porous surface than slate, and it is the one most often wrecked by somebody turning a pressure washer on it. Once the face is stripped the tile holds water, and the moss comes back faster and heavier than it was before. It is the single most expensive mistake we get called out to fix. On concrete we drop the pressure right down, soft wash, and let a proper biocide do the work over the weeks after we have gone.

Bigger roofs, and why access matters

A detached house in one of the newer closes is a much bigger area of roof than a terrace, often with more than one pitch, dormers and a conservatory in the way. We survey before we quote for exactly that reason, so the price is the price and there is no “we did not realise” on the day. Everything is reached from our own scaffold tower and poles, your gutters and downpipes are cleared and run through as part of the job, and the garden is protected and rinsed.

Why a scrape on its own is money wasted

Someone comes with a scraper, charges a couple of hundred, and the roof looks sound for a season. Then it comes back worse. Scraping takes off what you can see and leaves the spores and the root in the surface of the tile, and on porous concrete there is plenty of surface for it to hide in. The treatment is the part that buys the years, which is why every roof we do gets a DDAC biocide across the whole surface, including the parts that already look clean, and carries a 2-year no-moss guarantee.

Everything is fixed price and written down before we start. See roof cleaning for the full method, gutter cleaning if the gutters need doing at the same time, or our reviews for what people locally say about the work.