Roof Cleaning in Tiverton

The Moore & Franks approach in Tiverton

Tiverton sits where the Exe and the Lowman meet, and the town's full of solid stone houses, old mill buildings and Victorian terraces that have stood through plenty of wet Devon winters. That river-valley damp keeps roofs greening over, especially on the north slopes and in the valleys. We've a landline here in Tiverton and the town's well within our patch, so we know the housing and the weather. Our team strips the moss by hand, treats the roof with a proper biocide and clears the gutters. Family-run, fully insured, and tidy from the first ladder to the last.

The rendered Victorian terraces packed tight through Westexe and Elmore hold moisture in their porous surfaces, so they green up fast and the roofs above them go the same way. We soft-wash a biocide across roof and render that kills the growth at source, hand-scraping the bulk of the moss off first with carbon-fibre tools from the ground. On porous old render, killing the algae properly beats blasting it, which only opens the surface up further.

Out toward Chettiscombe and Bolham the stone and cob farmhouses collect moss in every valley and joint, and their larger roofs take a methodical clean. We work the growth off with extendable poles rather than walking the tiles, treat the whole roof and clear the gutters of the leaf that drops off the canal and Lowman trees. Nothing gets leaned against soft old cob walls at any stage.

The newer K-Rend estates on the higher ground, like Blundell's Heights, discolour within a few seasons in Tiverton's slow-drying valley air, so a biocide top-coat is worth having to hold the regrowth back. There is no sea salt this far inland — it is shade and river damp doing the work — which means the right treatment counts more than force. We are 25 minutes from our Topsham base and quote in writing.

Our Tiverton customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX16 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Tiverton town centre & Westexe, Grand Western Canal, Blundell's School, Bolham & Knightshayes, Chettiscombe, Elmore).