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Roof Cleaning Pro Greensboro NC (336)362 7659 wrote:

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Bergman Roof Cleaning Port Charlotte FL 941-698-1959 wrote:

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I would like to see a PDF bulletin that's just about cleaning roofs. 90% of mine are tile.
The damage to a shingled roof is obvious-loss of granules.
To tile, it's loss of glazing-if it's a glazed tile roof. Loss of ridge cap cement pieces [they are always cracked up in a million places and pressure washing sends the pieces off into space!
Cracking tiles: Pressure washing a tile roof requires the worker to step on basically every tile on the roof, while we can do a 10' x 15' area from 1 spot or from a ladder and not even walk on it! Also, if not glazed, the most tile roofs are not colored cement, but slurry coated [painted] gray cement.
Pressure washing makes these painted tiles look paler and begins the breakdown process of the roofs coloring, ending in 1/4 of the roof having bare gray cement showing.
I think any bulletin from RCIA [ a national org ] should not be just about shingles?
I feel like crap and I'm in a rotten mood, so I hope it doesn't show too much? LOL

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 Yes Chuck, since you guys down in Florida have tile roofs, Chris w/ Apple Roof Cleaning or someone from Florida should write one. 

 

I don't have tile roof in NC or rarely see them, so I will leave the roof cleaning tile technical bulletin for the Florida guys.

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I know how to clean tile roofs and I know why pressure washing them is not as good as Non-Pressure cleaning of them.

As to making a PDF ??

It may as well be brain surgery [ which I may need, but can't do, anymore than a Tecnical Bulleting PDF LOL }

Chris is computer literate and can probably make one though?

I'm sure he doesn't "NEED" my input, but I'd be glad to help with it!

Soft Wash Wizard - Harrisburg, NC wrote:

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Thank you to all the RCIA paid members who have spent many hours in developing the RCIA - Technical Bulletin for all of us to use in our marketing programs.  Things like this help justify the value of being a paid member to this roof cleaning industry organization. 

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Steve@VerticalLiftServices.com
704-791-8315

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 MIke Sullivan has just updated the RCIA Technical Bulletin to include both Moss and Lichen!