Roof Cleaning in Torquay

The Moore & Franks approach in Torquay

Torquay's the heart of the English Riviera, and its roofs range from grand Victorian villas terraced up the hillsides to the seafront hotels and rows of guest houses. Sitting on the bay, the town gets salt air and sea fog that keep roofs damp and feed algae and moss across the weather side. On the steep, terraced streets it builds up out of sight until it's lifting tiles. We strip it back by hand, treat the roof with a proper biocide and clear the gutters. Family-run Devon firm, twenty-five years in, insured to £5m, and reliable on the bigger jobs too.

The Warberries, Lincombe and Babbacombe are villa country — big slate and clay spans set among mature trees that keep the north-facing pitches in shade most of the day, so moss takes hold early and digs in. Roofs that size need working methodically from the ground: we hand-scrape the bulk off with extendable carbon-fibre tools and soft-wash a biocide across the whole slope to kill the spores where they root. On old Torquay slate, that beats any high-pressure shortcut every time.

Down the hill, the rendered semis of Chelston and Shiphay and the painted, pebble-dashed terraces in Ellacombe and Upton all weather quickly in the coastal damp, greening on the salt-facing side. We can soft-wash render and roof together and clear the gutters after — the steep, wooded hillsides fill them with leaf every autumn. Every run is vacuumed out from ground level, no ladders against the render.

Half of Torquay seems to own a balcony, a conservatory or a wall of sea-view glass, and the salt spray finds all of it — we can add window cleaning from £15 + VAT with frames and sills included while we are there. With sea fret keeping render and slate permanently damp, growth returns fast on the shaded sides, so a biocide top-coat is worth having. It is a 45-minute run from Topsham, every job quoted in writing first.

Our Torquay customers are typically within 45 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ1, TQ2 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Babbacombe & Oddicombe Beach, Cockington Village, St Marychurch, Wellswood, Torre Abbey, Kents Cavern).