Ultimate Guide to Roof Maintenance and Care 🏠

By Mark Cave June 10, 2024

Ultimate Guide to Roof Maintenance and Care 🏠

Having a strong, clean roof is not just about aesthetics—it's the primary way your home is protected from adverse weather conditions. But roofs, like any other part of your home, require regular maintenance to remain in top shape. In this guide, we explore everything you need to know about roof maintenance, benefits of soft washing, and how to efficiently clean your roof!

Why Roof Maintenance is IMPORTANT?

Roof maintenance is essential for two key reasons—durability and cost-effectiveness. If left unattended, dirt, moss, and debris can significantly damage your roof materials over time, causing leaks and shortening your roof's lifespan.

Benefits of Soft Washing Your Roof 🌧️🌧️

Soft washing is a cleaning technique that uses low pressure and specialized solutions to safely remove mildew, bacteria, algae, and other organisms from your roof. The main benefits of soft washing your roof include:

Preservation of Roof Integrity: Traditional pressure washing can cause damage to shingles or other roof materials. Soft washing, on the other hand, uses less pressure and is less likely to cause such damage.
Effective Removal of Algae and Moss: Algae and moss can deteriorate roofing materials over time. Using an effective Green Growth Inhibitor during soft washing helps to kill these organisms and prevent regrowth.
Long-lasting Results: Compared to other cleaning methods, soft washing results last longer because it addresses the root of the issue—killing the organisms that cause the staining or discoloration.

When to Clean Your Roof 🗓️

The best time to clean your roof depends on various factors, including local climate, the surrounding environment, and the type of roofing materials used. However, it's generally recommended to clean your roof at least once every two years for optimal maintenance. Regular roof inspection can determine if more frequent cleaning maybe required.

Do-It-Yourself or Hire a professional ❓

Roof cleaning can indeed be a DIY project, provided you have the right tools like a Water Fed Pole Softwash Nozzle and adequate safety gear. But, hiring professionals could be more beneficial as they know the correct methods and techniques, achieving better, and often quicker, results with less risk.

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Whether you're looking for soft wash chemicals, soft washing equipment, or soft washing recipe calculator, we got you covered! Come check us out!

Ready for a cleaner roof and a safer home? The solutions are at your fingertips! 👋 Don't leave your roof's condition to chance. Seek the best with SoftWash UK Ltd. Remember, a small step today can lead to significant benefits in the future. So why wait? Let's give your roof the care it deserves!

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Soft Wash Calculator App

Now you can say I've got an app for that!

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Softwashing calculator is an indispensable tool for juggling complicated chemical mixes. It helps reduce wastage and keeps operating costs down by giving accurate proportions

If you are having difficulty getting your head around the maths, trying to work out what percentage of softwash you need, how much chemical, surfactant and water to add, then this is the App for you.

The Soft Wash Calculator App allows you to work out your soft wash recipe by telling you exactly how much chemical, how much water and how much surfactant to add to get the desired soft wash recipe.
It doesn't stop there!.
- It can also remix your leftover softwash to a new stronger or weaker recipe.
- all controls in one place for see at a glance operation
- ease of input via pre-loaded dials. no more calculator style typing
- instantly responds to changes of complex combinations
- works in both Litres and US Gallons
- tested for Protan and Deutan colourblind users
- links to SoftwashingUK website

Take this scenario
You started with a 1% soft wash recipe of 50 gal (or litres) for a deck clean and you’re left with 13 gallons.

You get a call from a prospective customer to clean their roof. Past experience tells you a 4% soft wash recipe is needed, but what about your leftover mix at 1%?.

Do you waste time and effort driving back to base to transfer into a standby tank?
You could consider the 13 gal as just water, top up the tank and start again.
But that’s throwing away the value of the mix and raising your overhead.

Soft Wash Calculator App to the rescue.

You get to the new job and it requires 100 gal / litres.
Switch into remix mode , confirming the 13 gal already in the tank
Move the dials to your new recipe and the app immediately updates the different amounts to add in front of your eyes including the correct amount of extra surfactant.

You now have a 100 gal / litres tank of 4% soft wash recipe ready for your roof clean job!

Not forgetting you’ve saved money too, all without stress and uncertainty . Don’t underestimate what confident calmness has on your customer putting out referrals.

The same applies if you have a 4% recipe left in your tank and you need to dilute it down to 2%. Again the app will tell you how.

Softwashing calculator will also work for any chemical recipe. For instance you can use it for Sodium Hypochlorite, Bleach, Biocide , TFR traffic film remover and degreaser. Even the mathematically-challenged rocket scientist can top up their booster tanks to new fuel mixes after launch delays caused by changing weather conditions.

Using this app you will know exactly what chemical strength to put on any surface giving you the confidence and the knowledge of a professional soft washer and you’ll save money as well.

So if you have little knowledge of how to mix a soft wash recipe then this app is for you.
If you have little knowledge of how to remix a soft wash recipe then this app is for you.
If you want to save money when mixing a soft wash recipe then this app is for you.

This app is also backward compatible to devices running iOS7. We've done this so you can re-purpose an old iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 5 for what could be hazardous work environments. Just toss one in your cleaning van's toolkit.

Once you learn the methods and procedures of how to apply the soft wash to the different surfaces that need cleaning you’ll be unstoppable!

The app also has a guide to what percentage for what surface. And if you are the lucky owner of a Clever Injector it will remind you the correct setting for the job.
However you should always consider and risk assess what soft wash recipe you need to clean the surface.

** A major iOS code-base change may require a re-purchase. The appiverse at the time will confirm our promise that we won't do so unless the necessity is apparent.

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