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Raystown Roof Cleaning Central PA 1-800-236-0322 wrote:

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Hey Chris,...looking at the house beside it makes me want to do a tile roof,...none here though.

Nice job bringing out the color.

Jeff

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 Thanks Jeff  Like yourself, we still use a bit of TSP in our tile roof cleaning mixture, because I have never found a superior soap type of product. IMHO, the last thing you want to do on an already slippery tile roof is to add any soap or surfactant, unless your goal is to slip and fall right off the roof! 

On a tile or a metal roof, any soap that gets on your shoes during the cleaning will allow you to "hydroplane", and your feet can go right out from under you before you know what happened. 

I know you guys have very very few tile roofs up there, but here in Tampa, and Florida in general, tile roofs are a way of life.  The ratio of shingle to tile is about 60/40 here in favor of shingle, but down in South Florida, or nearer to the Salt Water, tile roofs are a "fact of life".

Roof Cleaning Katy Texas (281) 392-2304 wrote:

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Nice tile roof cleaning job Chris.  Once cleaned glazed tiles are beautiful.  Roof cleaning glazed tiles is treacherous.  One slip and there is no stopping.

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 Thanks Marcus, it is like "tile roof cleaning week here in Tampa" this week.

Nearly every job we have scheduled for this week is some sort of tile roof, either barrel or flat.

Advantage Roof Cleaning wrote:

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Although I haven't done many glazed tile roofs here in Illinois, I do enjoy cleaning them. They look dazzling afterwards.

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 Well, come down here to the Tampa area, and you can help us clean a never ending supply of glazed barrel tile roofs 

You are correct, when they are clean, they are dazzling looking, but when they are dirty, they look awful.

In many deed restricted parts of the Tampa Florida area, if your home had a tile roof on it, they will only allow you to replace it with a tile roof, instead of a shingle or a metal roof.

Advantage Roof Cleaning wrote:

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Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa FL (813) 655-8777 wrote:

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Advantage Roof Cleaning wrote:

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Although I haven't done many glazed tile roofs here in Illinois, I do enjoy cleaning them. They look dazzling afterwards.

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 Well, come down here to the Tampa area, and you can help us clean a never ending supply of glazed barrel tile roofs 

You are correct, when they are clean, they are dazzling looking, but when they are dirty, they look awful.

In many deed restricted parts of the Tampa Florida area, if your home had a tile roof on it, they will only allow you to replace it with a tile roof, instead of a shingle or a metal roof.

 

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Perhaps I'll plan a vacation in Florida clean a roof with you and then write off the trip as a business expense...LOL

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 LOL, well hurry on down  We have a huge 10,000 sq ft tile roof to do in Seffner that is right on a large lake. It is just east of Tampa, and we will need a lift to do it, because it is 10/12 pitch. 

We are so busy cleaning tile roofs right now, it isn't funny. Everyone wants to get their homes cleaned up for Thanksgiving, and it all starts from the roof down. Plus, we are in the Season here in Tampa, and the Homeowners Associations are sending out clean your roof or else letters.

Plus, it has been kind of cold here lately, and as we all know, the Tile Roof Cleaning Chemical does not work as well, when it is cold outside.

Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa FL (813) 655-8777 wrote:

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Though we offered to clean the small area of green mildew on his home for free, he declined.

 

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Great looking job Chris!  Shame the HO didn't ask you to clean his driveway as well.  The house and property would have looked so much better. 

I'm sure we have some tile roofs around here in Virginia, but they are fairly rare.  I've looked at thousands of roofs the past couple of months and don't recall seeing a single tile roof, and only a couple of cedar shake roofs.

We do an awful lot of barrel and flat tile roof cleaning in the north tampa community of Tampa Palms.

Here are a few recent pictures of tile roofs we have cleaned up in that community. 

The before and after pictures came out beautifully, and like always, they reproduce very well on this forum,

It has been a rainy summer so far here in the tampa florida area, but we sure need the rain! We are 4 inches behind in overall rainfall for this year.

I'm in SW Florida Charlotte County and the developments for the last 20 years + are 90% barrel tile.

Like Chris said, that's all that a replacement roof can be-BARREL TILE!

Very few flat tile roofs around and no developments with all flat tile 

and when I do get one, it's an old roof. I don't know of any shingled roof  

developments at all, that are newer than 20 years and can only think of 1 total.

When I go to sleep at night, I dream I got a flat tile roof to clean this week,

and if I take my pain pills to close to my 2 glasses of wine at night,  

I dream I got a huge development of shingled roofs that will never run out!!

If I just drink a little too much,   then I still dream of a whole lot of flat tile roofs! LOL

I'm in rough shape physically, - I'm typing this with a hot towel on my back and

another strapped to the back of my neck-and that's after taking 20mg Hydrocodone!

but I can still do flat tile and shingles, - Which I pay for with extra pain for another week

just not those nasty, slippery, barrel tile!

We do all roofs now, 75 - 90%  from the ground or a step ladder, while my worker does plant care,

then,  if I can't reach it all, my worker goes up for like 20 minutes and does the out of reach part that's left.

In the thumbnails below, check out the tall roof, before / after and then, the unimaginable! The 3rd photo

was taken a few hours later, when I drove back by the job! HOW COULD THEY STAND THE SH SMELL?

They must have had an important meeting, to discuss what to eat for dinner, I guess?

This job didn't get stepped on. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3w7NPAwO3Q