How To Remove Moss From My Garage Roof

If the water will not reach the peak of the roof from the ground you can spray while standing on a ladder.

How to remove moss from my garage roof.

The roof has considerable moss growing on it and because my house is pebble dashed there are lots of stone pebbles scattered along the roof edging. An alternative to manually removing the moss with a brush and trowel is to use chemicals. If you want to clean moss off a roof yourself you will have to plan how you are going to kill the moss and remove it effectively. Even so you will always need to mount the roof later on in order to remove the dead moss.

Hose off and brush all moss loose from your roof shingles. Of course i don t want to scrape it off i need a product that can be sprayed or poured on to it and the moss dies and can then be washed off clean. The roof has started to leak in a few places mainly where the roof butts up against the main wall of the house. There are a range of chemicals to use on your roof to kill any moss and the benefit with using a chemical is that it will remove all of the smaller moss spores that you can t necessarily see and any moss that is beneath the tiles.

Carefully place a ladder near the area of moss growth and don slip resistant shoes old clothes rubber gloves and eye protection. I ve got a product to paint on my garage concrete asbestos corrugated roof but first i need to get the moss off it. Its recommended anyone cleaning moss off a roof should do it on a cloudy day.