Tips for maintaining a healthy roof
Maintaining the health of your roof will save you thousands in the long run and ensure you protect your most valuable asset – your home. All roofs will deteriorate over time, it’s inevitable, however, with these simple tips you can ensure to get the full lifetime out of your roof:
- Check your gutter regularly – blockages cause problems and some debris is very acidic so will deteriorate at an increased speed.
- Pay special attention to any metal parts of your roof as these can get to a critical state of decay very quickly.
- Do a water pressure clean on your roof to remove any rot, debris or dirt build ups from adverse weather conditions. You may need to do apply a sterilising agent or anti-fungicide depending on the material your roof is made of.
- Check ridge capping is in good condition,when mortar is cracked or breaking away re cementing will be requred
- Check roof sarking on skillion roofs (flat roofs).If holes are in the roof sarking new sarking will be needed.
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