This roof is the largest roof I have had to clean. In fact, I think this is the largest home I have ever been to. There were only two of us cleaning this roof and we were worn out by the end of the day! The people were the nicest clients I have worked for yet! They couldn't stop complimenting me about how nice the roof looked throughout the course of the day! I took the after pictures when we finished the job. I need to go back and get more after a rain. You can see some brown left on the roof, but the difference was amazing!
It is hard to get a real appreciation for how big this home really was. The picture of the two garages is a section of house that is attached, but behind the main house. It is almost as big as the main house. The smaller garage is bigger than my whole house!
We used 140 gallons of mix and spent about 6 1/2 hours between set up, mixing, cleaning and tear down.
Job well done Brian. I see your an experienced roof cleaner I hav e a couple of questions for you. I live in New Jersey your neighboring state usually I notice only one side of the roof is streaked or dirty, would you clean the one side or the whole roof? and second question how far into the winter will you work please be specific with this question thanks Brian.
Thanks everyone! This is a nice one to add to my portfolio. I have a commercial one coming up in about 2 weeks that is almost as big, but the pitch will be walkable.
Gil, that home was more than 10,000 square feet of shingles with the pitch. I measured the base square footage and adjusted for pitch. Then I had to guestimate a little with all of the different dormers and little peaks you can't see in the back of the house. I use different prices per square foot depending on a lot of different factors. You can find plenty of information on price/square foot here to get an idea of what I charged without me discussing my finances in an open forum .
Clyde, I almost always try to convince people to do the whole roof. That is the only way I will give them any type of stain warranty. There are some threads on cleaning whole roofs verses half roofs. Roof cleaners feel differently about this issue. Just search and read those posts. I'll keep cleaning as long as I am getting calls and it stays above about 50 degrees during the day.
Brian
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I got a chance to stop out and take some good after pictures of this house today. The roof looks perfect now that it has rained. I'll update the pictures so that the new guys can see the before pics, after pics (immediately after the job) and then the after a few rain pics.
What a difference! That house is huge...did you have any problems with pumps not priming? Sometimes when i do a huge house, the pumps dont seem to want to push the love up that far. What kind of setup are you using?
Blake, I didn't have any problems with priming the pump. I never have problems with that, but I make sure that I prime everything at the truck. I make sure I run about 5 gallons of mix through my hose before I even try to take it up a ladder.
If you don't get all of the air pockets out of the line before you take it up on a ladder, you will always have trouble with priming. I had that happen to me one time near the end of a pretty big job where I had to mix up some extra chemical to finish my work. Everything had gone wrong and I was in a hurry and didn't prime the hose before I got back up on this very large roof. I couldn't spray at all. I checked everything thinking I may be sucking air somewhere. I thought the pump might be going bad. I was overlooking the obvious that I had an air pocket stuck in the pump. As soon as I figured that out and bled the line on the ground, the pump worked normally again. Since that time, I have always made sure I run 5 gallons or so through the pump before I start spraying at the job.
Brian
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