Yeah, by taking 10 years of life away from the roof :laughing:
As a former building contractor and a dumpster company owner, I simply can not count the number of twelve to twenty year old, twelve to twenty thousand dollar premature roof replacements I hauled to the dump.
I am a self proclaimed loud mouth know it all who has served on code review committees, ordinance establishing committees, county process review committees, electrical boards, Home Builders Association President four consecutive terms and been reading JLC and Fine Home Building for what seems like decades.
I say that to say this, I do not know everything there is to know but God gave me an insatiable desire to ask why. Why? I have no idea.
Then I discovered professional pressure washing and after that was introduced to detergent application roof stain removal. It simply blew me away. Me, Mr. What's Under the Rug, always looking to learn, had no idea what was causing the shingle discoloration and how easy it was to rejuvenate.
I keep in touch with my former roofing sub who used to give me tons of dumpster business for re-roofs even after I lost my construction company. We're still friends, and I still flip him referrals, but the only dumpster business I get from him are the jobs I sell for him.
It is understood that adding ten years to the life of a shingle..... Let me say that another way. I take a roof that is ugly and doomed for premature replacement and keep it in service for at least five more years. A subsequent cleaning will add another five years after that....
I understand that cleaning goes counter to replacing. I spent my entire adult life building and have total love and respect for tradesmen. I get it that I'm taking work from them but here is what else I am doing. I am saving their moms, dads, friends, and relatives tens of thousands of dollars. And giving them back their curb appeal and pride of ownership.
And every chance I get, I try to help educate those who, like me for so many years, had no clue.