We're getting our roof retiled and it strikes me that if I'm ever going to go up there and fix something to the roof to suppress moss, it's now or never.
Are there any good products (like self adhesive copper strips) that folk would recommend or can anyone recommend a DIY solution?
Tim
Copper, in whatever form's convenient. It should be possible to insinuate some copper wire I expect.
NT
Yeah strip a bit of scrap/gash 2.5 T&E and fix it along each side of the ridge a few inches down from the top. As you are having the roof stripped and replaced short bits of copper wire under the ridge tiles with a loop sticking up between them to hold the main wire in place.
I'd imagine it would need to be untinned though, and unfortunately in my experience copper tends to go black and not erode much after a couple of years and become innefective. I only tried this on a shed roof though. Brian
"Brian Gaff" wrote in news:kpp2lm$hil$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
Do you also get birds on the ridge? If so then consider having anti-bird spikes installed and weave some copper wire around them.
Bird crap can really build up and start moss growths.
Apart from the cosmetic aspect, why is moss on a roof A Bad Thing?
Birds choose it as a nesting material, presumably for its heat insulation?
in our case, it drops down and blocks the gutters & downpipes.
On a roof of about 7 - 8 deg. slope it manages to lift the asbestos sheets a bit at the joins and then water can be blown up and under.
Which is why there is a need for significantly more use of high sulphur coal for power generation, with the removal of any scrubbing measures such that we get the required amount of acid rain to keep the copper clean.
It also deflects water running down the roof so that it runs under the tiles, and blocks the drainage routes of each tile.
NT
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