Do NOT pressure wash your roof!

My neighbour had his roof jetwashed, now he has to replace the whole thi= ng for =A33000.

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Mr Macaw
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"Mr Macaw" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@red.lan:

In Germany many of the roof tiles are glazed.

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DerbyBorn

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:09:05 -0000, DerbyBorn w= rote:

Like this? They look really shiny, does that prevent moss, and stop peo= ple wanting to clean them?

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Mr Macaw

"The most common roof tiles in the United Kingdom are made from concrete and have a sandy/granular finish on the exposed side of the tile. This part of the tile is designed to gradually wear off until the tile needs to be replaced, usually after 80-100 years of normal weathering."

No wonder the gutters get clogged up with lots of silt.

Why is a concrete roof tile designed to wear away?

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pamela

No, mainly it's moss lumps, and soil generated by the rotting moss.

And I've never had my gutters clogged, it all just washes down the drain= .

Presumably it's impossible to design it not to. Lasting 100 years seems= pretty good to me.

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Mr Macaw

Mine will be fine given that it is galvanised metal decking.

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Sam Crean

Isn't that really loud when it rains?

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Mr Macaw

Only in the heaviest rain and that is easy to avoid by having chicken wire with fibreglass insulation on top of that under the metal decking when the roof is done.

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Sam Crean

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:29:48 -0000, Sam Crean wrote:=

I saw a house built like that and thought it was a shed. A bit tatty lo= oking.

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Mr Macaw

You can't see anything when the roof is complete and there is a proper ceiling below the mesh.

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Sam Crean

"Mr Macaw" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@red.lan:

Just like that in Germany. They lookk clean and fresh. Moss wouldn't get a hold.

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DerbyBorn

IOW corrugated iron.

Confirmation of what I suggested before; you actually live in a corrugated iron shack.

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michael adams

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Yeah.... most people put that on garages.

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Mr Macaw

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Don't all Aussies ?

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Jonno

What the hell did he do, use a huge amount of pressure or what? I'm sure some people down my road have cleaned roves with pressure washers with no more than a bit of ridge time repairs required and some fillets. Brian

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Brian Gaff

When all our coal-fired power stations are gone, where will the building industry get their raw material from ?. I believe fly-ash from burning powdered coal is a useful constituent.

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Andrew

In what building material?

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Mr Macaw

It removes the coating on the tiles and makes them more porous, shortening their lifetime. You might not know immediately.

Anyway I told them to take them to trading standards or sue them (her sister's a lawyer....)

Actually they only live just down the road, and another neighbour had it done too. We could organise a lynching.

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Mr Macaw

Concrete. If there is no more fly ash available anymore, what was used before fly ash was used can be used again.

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Sam Crean

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