About Roof Washing

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Residential Multi-Unit Commercial Welcome to Maintenance Medics Exterior Cleaning & Roof Washing!

We are Northwest Indiana’s premier provider of roof cleaning services. We are conveniently located in Valparaiso, IN to serve the entire region. Our customers include commercial, multi-unit residential, and single-families. With our extensive experience, knowledge and equipment, you will be impressed by great your property will look! On top of all that, our home-town service is unmatched.

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Roof Soft Washing The roof over your head is tremendous. It provides your family with protection from the harsh sunlight and freezing snow. It completes the exterior appearance of your house with a nice touch. And it protects all the thing inside your house, including walls furniture and kids, from dangerous water. There are several different types of roofing materials for homes including asphalt shingles, clay tiles, cedar shakes, and metal roofs. No matter what type of material you choose, your roof is susceptible to dirt, mold & mildew, and a that leaves black streaks. More on that later.

Contaminates Destroy A Roof Allowing these contaminates to remain can be disastrous your houseandyourwallet. T h e integrity of your roof can be compromised over time, and will have a shortened life span because of these contaminants. This means paying more money to replace your roof. Hiring a professional soft wash roof cleaning company like Maintenance Medics will ultimately save you money throughout the lifetime of your roof.

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Keeping a Well-Maintained Roof Stops Loss of Coverage Homeowner’s insurance protects you and your home in the event of a disaster. There are several insurance companies who will drop your entire insurance policy simply because your roof has not been properly maintained. Cleaning your roof could save you a lot of time, stress, and money.

When it comes to a newly installed roof, most of them are covered under a roofing warranty. This is great to have in case of an accident or improper installation. Unfortunately, it does nothing to help you keep your roof clean.

Most roofing warranties come with strict guidelines that must be followed to ensure your warranty isn’t waived.

In the event that a pressure washing system is used on a roof top, most roofing companies will drop your warranty due to damage done by the high-powered blast of water. It is crucial to hire a professional soft wash roof cleaning company to make sure that your roof is properly cleaned without the risk of losing your warranty.

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Soft Wash Roof Washing In the professional roofing industry, it is a well-known fact that soft washing is the best solution for cleaning a roof top. Unfortunately, roofing companies sell roofs and do not clean roofs. In other words, they will sell you a new roof that you do not need. Soft washing is a low-pressure roof cleaning solution. Soft washing uses a bio-degradable, eco-friendly solution to clean your roof and your home’s siding. This solution sinks into the cracks and pores of your house and destroys dirt, mold, mildew, and algae at the core without damaging your roof.

The solution is left to soak in and kill the root system of the growth on your roof. Most of the staining will be gone right away whereas others may take4–6 weeks to totally disappear.

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Soft washing is more than basic roof cleaning. The products developed for and used by us cleans stains and also sanitizes, penetrates, and eliminates the root of the issue. The main culprit of most roof staining that causes prevalent black streaks is a bacterium called Magma. Soft washing has the ability to kill the pest from the root up, achieving a truly clean surface.

Read on to learn more about the science and history of roof washing, or call us today to get your roof cleaned!

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The Truth Behind Roof Stains: What They Are, Why They’re There And How they Got There

Roof cleaning as an industry is somewhat new. The first commercial roof washers started in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. These roof cleaners started out in the South, since the humidity, rain and general heat make for ideal conditions for all the flora to grow on your roof.

Initially, washing roofs wasn’t very good. With pressure washers trying it out they had success with the Mediterranean style tiled roofs of Florida, but completely destroyed shingles of all sorts in the process.

There have been many other methods for cleaning roofs tried out over the years. Initially the focus of ridding the roof surface of ugly black streaks was a basic cleaning function. You’d scrub the surface, or bleach it, and the streaks would go away. For a time.

However, these black streaks are truly an infection of organic materials that are better addressed with chemicals like you would address a fungal infection in your garden. This approach to cleaning the stained roof was different than any other previously taken, and this led to a revolution in the roof cleaning industry. Cyano-What Bacteria!?

The True Culprit

Cyanobacteria Gloeocapsa Magma is the true culprit that causes black streaks on roofs and surfaces. Other forms of microorganisms can be found in union with the bacteria, including mold, fungi, algae, mildew, lichen, and moss. Many of the organisms that grow on a roof grow on the warm, moist environment created by a roof.

Many roofing surfaces are made with materials that can be metabolized by these microorganisms, such as shingles with limestone that algae, mildew, and bacteria absorb to get their nutrients. That sameC. Gloeocapsa Magma found on roofs will grow on wood, concrete, siding, aluminum, and other surfaces as well. The good news is that through soft washing, these microorganisms and stains can be safely removed!

Other possible organisms growing on a roof include nitrogen-fixing blue- green algae. They grow in areas with little to no nutrients and sustain themselves by creating nutrients through the nodules on their filament root systems.

At Maintenance Medics Exterior Cleaning & Roof Washing, we treat a roof or surface with soft-washing chemicals. It is more beneficial to rid the source of the staining (killing and removing the bacteria, etc) rather than just blasting away at the surface! Shingle Deterioration Just as plants have a root system, fungi and algae that are growing on a roof have root systems that can cause damage to shingles such as uplifting, spreading of shingles, and decomposition. The filament root system of fungi and algae means they are growing on and digging into your roof just as a plant grows into the ground. The roots open tiny cracks in the roofing materials and cause them to swell and expand, destroying the usefulness of the roof over time.

If you look at a picture of swollen, poorly maintained shingles you can clearly see four forces working away at them. There is no question that the shingles are being attacked. Let us break down the four areas of shingle deterioration caused by algae and fungi:

1. Shingles break down from decomposition caused by algae and fungal filament root systems. 2. Shingles break down because algae and fungi have a hunger for limestone fillers. Limestone, which contains phosphates, is an excellent source of nutrients for algae and fungi. 3. Shingles break down from the waste created by the algae and fungi. This waste is acidic and damages the shingles. 4. Shingles break down because of excess heat caused from the darkening of the shingles. The darker the shingles get from algae streaking, the more heat they absorb. This excess heat dries the shingles and ages the petroleum in them.

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Maintenance Medics Exterior Cleaning & Roof • Our Service Lasts Longer Than Others Washing is committed to making smart decisions to Compared to pressure washing, the Exter-A-Clean protect the environment and manage our environmental system lasts 3 – 5 times longer. This is because our impact responsibly. We have taken many steps to reduce process completely kills the organic matter our impact and highlight our partnerships to (bacteria, mold, etc.) on the surface whereas sustainability. pressure washing method just removes most of it. A surface free of contaminants last much longer We are a pioneer in our industry. We continue to use than a surface that temporarily appears clean. environmentally-friendly products, such as low-VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) washes and cleaning • We Don’t Destroy Property! solutions. Our methods also considerably reduce water Pressure washing is exactly what it sounds like: usage and we continue to research new ways to reduce high-pressure water jets. With a typical force of our impact further. Here are some things we do to help: 1000 – 4000 lbs/in2 pressure washing water breaks apart surfaces very rapidly; indeed,professional • We Conserve Water painters often use pressure washing to remove the Pressure washing uses high pressure and consumes paint before applying a new coat! a lot of water (up to 500 gallons in 1 hour). In contrast our Exter-A-Clean Soft Wash System uses Alternately the Exter-A-Clean© System is a low- about 50 gallons of water to clean the same area pressure washing system that gives a superior as the pressure washing method. cleaning result over traditional pressure washing. This sustains our environment and your home by using less resources to clean or repair. • We Utilize Biodegradable Cleaning Solutions Maintenance Medics Exterior Cleaning & Roof Washing has partnered with manufacturers and Putting it All Together suppliers of entirely biodegradable washing products. The products we use are safe and break Maintenance Medics Exterior Cleaning & Roof Washing down into ecologically safe elements so that we do uses the Exter-A-Clean System which only uses not leave an environmental hazard behind. environmentally responsible methods and products to sustain our environment. We are committed to being a • We Limit The Use of Fossil Fuels Responsible Partner and will continue to promote Maintenance Medics is committed to reducing the sustainability in all of our cleaning methods. use of fossil fuels and lessen our world’s dependence on oil resources, limit carbon emissions, and promote the development of Responsible alternative energy resources.

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