Roof Cleaning in Honiton

The Moore & Franks approach in Honiton

Honiton runs along its long high street in the Otter valley, with rows of Georgian and Victorian houses and a fair spread of newer estates around the edges. Tucked into the valley as it is, the town holds damp, and roofs here green over on the shaded side through autumn and winter. Moss in the valleys and along the ridges is the usual culprit. We take it off by hand, treat the whole roof with a biocide to slow the regrowth, and clear the gutters while we've got the access up. Devon family business, twenty-five years of it, fully insured, and straight-talking.

Out in the lanes toward Gittisham and Combe Raleigh it is farmhouse and barn-conversion country, often with large, exposed roof spans that grow moss across whole slopes. Big roofs like these need a methodical clean — we hand-scrape the growth off with carbon-fibre tools worked from the ground and soft-wash a biocide over the full span so the spores are killed at source, not just the visible surface knocked back. Then the whole run gets a proper check.

Closer in, the 1990s and modern brick semis around Heathpark and Hayne Lane sit alongside the rendered semis running off the high street, and both green up on the shaded side in Honiton's valley damp. We can treat roof and render together and finish by clearing the gutters — the mature trees along New Street drop straight into them every autumn. Every run is vacuumed out from ground level.

The old cob and lime-rendered cottages toward Combe Raleigh need breathable, gentle cleaning rather than anything harsh, so we hand-scrape and use DOFF steam where a roof warrants it. Sat low in the Otter valley, Honiton's shaded roofs re-grow quickly, so a biocide top-coat is worth having to buy clean years. We are 25 minutes from our Topsham base and quote every job in writing.

Our Honiton customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX14 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Honiton High Street, St Michael's Church, Heathpark, Dumpdon Hill, Gittisham, Combe Raleigh, River Otter).