Roof cleaning in Epping

Epping roofs we clean

The High Street and older town

Epping’s long High Street, with its old market, is a conservation area full of older buildings under clay tile and slate. These roofs want low pressure only.

Detached homes near the forest

Larger houses on the roads near the forest edge often have big hipped roofs, dormers and valleys. Leaves and twigs collect in the valleys and gutters every autumn.

Theydon Bois and the villages

Village homes around the green and the forest edge sit among trees, so moss on the shaded slope is the norm rather than the exception.

Why Epping roofs grow moss

Epping Forest stretches for miles to the south-west of the town and is looked after by the City of London Corporation. The trees bring shade, damp and leaf litter, and that combination is what moss needs. Roofs here usually green up faster than the same roof would in an open part of Essex.

Jobs we see in Epping

Typical Epping jobs are large clay-tiled or concrete roofs with thick moss on the forest side, valleys packed with leaves, and gutters that overflow every winter. A treatment every so often after the first clean keeps these roofs under control.

How we clean them

The same careful method on every roof: thick moss lifted by hand, a low-pressure soft wash, a biocide finish, and the gutters cleared of what comes off. No jet washing on tiles or slate.

Drag to compare: the kind of change a soft wash and biocide makes.

Where we work in Epping

Epping town, Coopersale, Theydon Bois, Epping Green, Thornwood and North Weald. Not on the list? We cover all of Essex, so ask.