Removing Moss from Roof

[Vasco]

This query has turned up on here many times before. Many roofers and builders have said to leave it alone as all other remedies are both costly and/or likely to cause greater problems. I've left the moss alone on my roof for 10 years, with no problems.

[Tekno]

Grab a ladder and a broom and save yourself a few quid.

That’s what I did... if I can do it anyone can!

[Wombat3]

Grayedout said:

We've not cleared our roof of moss but we have stopped it blocking the gutters using these

https://www.roofingsuperstore.co.uk/product/hedgeh...

Good for leaves but loose /dead moss breaks down to fine dust which ends up as silt in your gutters & drains

[ARHarh]

I have lived in houses with moss on the roof for 57 years. Not always the same house, but It has never caused me a problem. At its worst the gutters will need cleaning every few years or so. Why do people worry about stuff like this.

[craig1912]

Thanks all, just to say, I am not “worried” about this at all. It’s not a big deal and certainly not worth getting up tight about. It is a nuisance more than anything with moss on paths, dropping onto cars, dropping onto sun room roof, blocking gutters and generally a nuisance. If I can get rid of it for a few years and not worry about having the gutters cleaned each year then I’m happy.

[eein]

I have quite bad moss on my roof. It didn't really annoy me that much until I got a white car. Urghhh... I'm forever picking blobs off before driving off.

However in the 20 years I've been here I've never had the gutters clogged - they all have a good run and straight downpipes. There is some moss sitting in them, but it seems to wash away when there's a good downpour. So money may be better spent on getting your gutters 'good'.

On the copper stuff, I have seen it work. My Grandpa went up on his roof when he was in his late 80s and did it himself. He'd read about it in the newspaper and figured to have a go. He then decided that surface area of copper must be important, so sourced heavy braded copper cable (about 1" wide). Then he was worried about bimetallic corrosion so sourced copper nails. Finally, despite living in the very north of Scotland near the coast with howling winds, got up their himself with a ladder and some boards and did it himself. Put's us all to shame...

[Fundoreen]

why do people worry about this? Because you suddenly get the youtube ad for the moss clearing extension pole. So now you can kill yourself rod hull style over something trivial.

[edc]

I partially clean the lower and garage roof only by leaning out the window with a green metal garden stick and a broom. The higher roof I can lean out and reach up to clean the gutter then just chuck it down in handfuls. Then I just use a ladder to scoop it out by hand from the gutter. Looking at the pricing of some of these quotations I'm glad I have a bash.

[Gnevans]

I normally do it by shouting “Oi Kate get off my roof”.

[Chumley.mouse]

Our roof is only a 15 degree pitch so it’s easy to walk around on it with just a floor scraper and a brush, if you leave it till it’s a red hot day it comes off a lot easier and I can also get a cracking view of the milf next door sunbathing 🤪

[Evoluzione]

Fundoreen said:

A very odd thing this year. Did hear the Crowes tapping away on the roof during the very cold spells. Piles of moss outside every day.
Eventually they stopped but im curious why this was a big year for them.

Maybe lost his Bafta? I'm surprised they didn't fall through, he's put on a bit of timber.

[Boosted LS1]

Last Visit said:

Evoluzione said:

What you need is to get a life really and stop worrying about the stupidist of things.

Strange post.

Not really, it's a bit of moss. I'd be happy to have it on my roof just as I'd like a front lawn and not a slabover. Clean out the gutters and get on with life. Or, be shafted by a biz who will ruin your roof whilst removing the moss. Then you'll need a new roof because the current one will be broken and leak.

[Boosted LS1]

What is wrong with some people. It's moss and just like a lawn or garden does good things for the eco system. Your roof won't cave in if you leave it alone. Sterile houses in sterile neighbourhoods are everywhere and now we wonder where the wildlife has gone? Some of us do and some are just blind but living the dream.

[MOBB]

https://www.ecacleaning.co.uk/products/skyscraper?...

https://youtu.be/ksn5yGbEkUY

[T5SOR]

MOBB said:

https://www.ecacleaning.co.uk/products/skyscraper?...

https://youtu.be/ksn5yGbEkUY

£549 for a telescopic pole? I bet they sell a lot of them

[Evanivitch]

Boosted LS1 said:

What is wrong with some people. It's moss and just like a lawn or garden does good things for the eco system. Your roof won't cave in if you leave it alone. Sterile houses in sterile neighbourhoods are everywhere and now we wonder where the wildlife has gone? Some of us do and some are just blind but living the dream.

It clogs my gutters terribly and I don't like ladders. I wouldn't want to eradicate it certainly isn't harmless. I can deal with the stuff that makes it onto the patio, and I'm all for a living roof on my shed (and a mixed clover lawn).

[Boosted LS1]

Got to love a clover lawn. A very valuable thing to own and I wish I could have one. My last lawn was mainly moss. It was fantasticily springy and green. It was also full of mining bees that left little volcano's at the start of their tunnels. I had a rowan in the lawns centre. The idiot who bought the house dug out the hedge, put a fence up, slabbed over the lawn and stuck a crappy caravan on it. Argh!

[Evanivitch]

Boosted LS1 said:

Got to love a clover lawn. A very valuable thing to own and I wish I could have one. My last lawn was mainly moss. It was fantasticily springy and green. It was also full of mining bees that left little volcano's at the start of their tunnels. I had a rowan in the lawns centre. The idiot who bought the house dug out the hedge, put a fence up, slabbed over the lawn and stuck a crappy caravan on it. Argh!

It's weird, quite happy having clover and speedwell in the lawn (well 2 of the 3 small lawns), but a dandelion and I'm out there with a knife.

[motco]

Boosted LS1 said:

Got to love a clover lawn. A very valuable thing to own and I wish I could have one. My last lawn was mainly moss. It was fantasticily springy and green. It was also full of mining bees that left little volcano's at the start of their tunnels. I had a rowan in the lawns centre. The idiot who bought the house dug out the hedge, put a fence up, slabbed over the lawn and stuck a crappy caravan on it. Argh!

Why is it that people who buy your house are seemingly always Philistines? My last house, ours for thirty five years, had a mature magnolia in the back garden when we moved in in 1977. It was beautiful in the spring if the frost had allowed it to survive unscathed, and we built a twelve foot deep extension that still left the tree in open garden, but the people who bought the house ripped the tree out without even having a spring display from it! It was probably more than fifty years old and it was destroyed in a blink of an unseeing eye.

[Boosted LS1]

A field full of dandelions is pretty spectacular though. One of my favourite flowers but they would take over the lawn given the chance. Said to be very tasty and they make great tea.