Green Moss On The Roof

Safely set up your ladder near the moss.

Green moss on the roof.

Clearing the moss from your roof is easy and only takes a few simple steps. Moss on a roof if you have moss growing on your roof there s a high chance you have a north facing roof. Wet the moss by spraying with your hose. Commonly found in climates with warm humid summers it does no damage to the roofing but it certainly does looks bad.

The black mold like stains and streaks that appear on roofs particularly light colored asphalt shingles is actually a blue green algae gloeocapsa magma. Using your garden hose on low pressure. A north facing roof usually has little sunlight which enables moss to buildup on the roof. Use a low pressure setting on your spray nozzle to avoid damaging your shingles.

Moss which tends to appear on areas of roofs that are shaded by trees and on north facing slopes is sometimes killed and re invasions prevented by simply correcting the shady humid conditions. This thin layer on the top of the shingles expands and becomes wide thick and mat like. Follow the store bought cleaner s instructions for how long you should leave the cleaner on the moss. Moss is darker green much thicker holds more water and also grips into the surface of the shingles.

Hose off and brush all moss loose from your roof shingles. As we said about green algae on roofs the presence of these black fungal or algal stains on the roof is an indicator that this roof area is in a shaded spot where you may want to be alert for development of moss or other roof problems but the level of damage from the black fungus or algae is probably low even less than that caused by lichens and certainly less than that caused by moss. Spreading moss can quickly upholster to roof surfaces filling in voids between shingles and tiles and reaching under and lifting up roofing materials. Moss on a roof begins with a thin dusting of green that you may notice only from low angles.

Create a 50 50 mixture of chlorine bleach and water and spray it generously on the moss. The third most common type of growth on a roof is algae. Moss can grow quite quickly and it will grow in between roof tiles filling in the voids and lifting up roof tiles and slates. The seams between the shingles and the shingles edges also develop moss because they tend to be especially shaded.

Hose off and brush all moss loose from your roof shingles. Apply a storebought or diy cleaning solution to remove the moss. Moss grows in areas untouched by sun so it can develop at a speedy pace on tree shaded and north facing roofs. It doesn t have the thick growth like moss and lichen and it looks like stains on a roof usually in streaks of black or sometimes green.

With either your homemade cleaner or a store bought option spray the.