Roof Cleaning in Budleigh Salterton

The Moore & Franks approach in Budleigh Salterton

Budleigh Salterton keeps its quiet, well-kept character, and the roofs here tend to match — solid Victorian and Edwardian houses, plus a good number of cottages set back from the pebble beach. Sitting where it does on the coast, the town gets steady salt-laden air that keeps north-facing slopes damp and mossy through the cooler months. We handle these roofs carefully: moss off by hand, a proper biocide treatment to slow it coming back, and a gutter clear to keep the rainwater moving. A Devon family firm with twenty-five years behind us, fully insured, and no hard sell.

A lot of Budleigh Salterton's housing is larger detached homes with mature gardens, and the tree cover around South Farm Road and the estuary edge drops leaf and seed straight into the gutters every autumn while shading the roofs below. We hand-scrape the moss off with carbon-fibre tools from ground level, soft-wash a biocide over the slope to kill it where it roots, and clear those leaf-packed gutter runs out by vacuum while we are set up.

The villas climbing West Hill and Coastguard Road cop the salt-laden air off Lyme Bay full on, and their render streaks and greens fast because the salt keeps it damp long after rain. We can treat render and roof together with a soft-wash, no pressure that would drive water into old coastal masonry. On fragile slate we use DOFF steam instead, cleaning on heat rather than force so nothing suffers.

Sea frets drifting up the Otter valley on still mornings keep the north and west elevations damp, so growth in Budleigh never really dries out and comes back quicker than inland. A biocide top-coat holds it off for several years, and we will happily return to refresh it. We are 25 minutes from our Topsham base, quote every job in writing first, and can clean solar panels at £7 + VAT each.

Our Budleigh Salterton customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX9 postcode area and the surrounding villages (The Octagon and Fairlynch Museum, Marine Parade and the pebble beach, River Otter estuary and South Farm Road, West Hill and Coastguard Road, East Budleigh and Otterton villages, Budleigh Salterton Golf Club).