How To Get Moss Off Your Roof

How to remove roof moss fast before it damages your shingles.

How to get moss off your roof.

Carefully place a ladder near the area of moss growth and don slip resistant shoes old clothes rubber gloves and eye protection. Letting the moss slowly roll down your roof and into the gutters just clogs up the gutters downspouts and underground drains. A reader wants to get this moss cleared off an asphalt roof without damaging the shingles. Again many years of roof life are lost to power washing.

Use the tool to gently lift away matted moss that has gathered on the flat sections of the shingles. How to remove roof moss fast before it damages your shingles. If mossy foliage covers your roof it s time to get cleaning moss grows in areas untouched by sun so it can develop at a speedy pace on tree shaded and north facing roofs. Scrape off the moss.

Hose off and brush all moss loose from your roof shingles. Safely set up your ladder near the moss. In my experience kill the moss let it die and in a few weeks manually remove the dead moss with a soft cedar shingle it s not easy but it works. Reader photo by jeanne huber.

If using a homemade spray leave it on for 15 20 minutes. With either your homemade cleaner or a store bought option spray the moss. Climb up to the roof and begin scraping off dead moss from the shingles using a putty knife or painter s 5 in 1 tool and working from the bottom up. If cleaning moss off your roof seems like a daunting task you can always get a free no obligation quote for roof.

Greenery overhead should be limited to leaves flushing out tree canopies.