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You must have seen your roof accumulating lot of dirt, grime and most importantly the algae that has caused a lot of black stains on it. These black stains have been caused by the black algae only whose scientific term is Gloeocapsa Magma. They are carried by the wind and the presence of air, water and sunlight promotes the growth of it on your roof. In fact you must have seen this growth and the increasing black stain on the roof of your neighbour's house as well. This is the state of all the roofs actually. Not only algae, even other types of fungus and lichens can grow on it. Most importantly the alarming fact is that they bite into the shingles of the roof and reduce the longevity to half or even less. This leads to all the warranty and guarantee period of your roof going to waste.
So how do you clean and protect your roof?
There are many alternatives available and sadly none of them are permanent solutions actually. You can either replace your roof if you can afford doing that in every few years or you can hire a professional roof cleaner or start the roof cleaning process yourself also. Out of the three options, you might not opt for replacing the roof as it is expensive and not so effective. You can try to clean your roof yourself, but that will surely be a tedious process, and instead you might end up harming your roof more than improving it. Thus it is best advisable to hire an agent who will take care of the cleaning job.
Thus to ensure to get a roof cleaner, you need to check a few things first. Make sure to get some reference for the roof cleaners. Make inquiries about the products they would use for your roof cleaning and ensure that they do not use very strong chemicals that can be harmful for your roof. So make sure that they sue environmental friendly products. You should ask them to show their work portfolio to you who should have pictures of before and after their work. You also need to check whether they have a home improvement license and a specific insurance coverage also. You have to ensure that the company you select fulfills these criteria; else go for some other company. In this way you can ensure that your roof gets cleaned well and you can practice this regular cleaning session to get rid of all that algae building up on your roof.
