Conservatory Cleaning in Alvechurch

Shade, damp air and a low gutter along the hedge

Shade is what makes a B48 roof hard work. With a hedge or a standing tree over it, the panels never dry out properly, so the algae keeps growing through winter when it would slow down on an open plot. The summer film of sap and dust sits over that growth and needs time on the surface to break down, and force does nothing useful against it. Lower down, the conservatory gutter often runs right along the hedge line. It takes leaf and clippings before the house gutter does and, once full, spills straight onto the frames and the bed beneath.

• Hedge and boundary-tree shade that stops the panels drying out between showers
• Algae that keeps growing through winter in the damp air of the valley bottom
• A baked film of sap, tannin and harvest dust lying over the growth by late summer
• A low conservatory gutter along the hedge line, full long before the house run
• Valley additions of twenty to thirty years old, some never washed since they went up

One gentle soft wash for glass and polycarbonate alike

Glass or polycarbonate, the treatment is the same low-pressure soft wash. The solution goes on, stays long enough to break down the algae and the film above it, and is rinsed away with pure water. A pressure washer would scratch polycarbonate, drive water past ageing seals and risk cracking older glazing bars, and beside a village lean-to it would also push water into lime mortar or timber. Seals, bars and frames are cleaned by hand, and the low gutter is emptied and flushed on the same visit.

• Solution left to dwell on glass and polycarbonate alike, then a pure water rinse
• A second application priced at the quote where a roof has been green for years
• Seals, bars and frames cleaned by hand, with any perished seal reported to you
• The low gutter emptied and flushed within the job, since here it fills first

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: the full conservatory cleaning process.

Valley streets, paddock edges and the odd lean-to in the core

Nearly every B48 conservatory sits on the modern and 20th-century streets running down the valley, and those backing onto paddock, hedgerow or the canal go green soonest. A spring visit gives you a light room for the summer, and B48 is covered on set days, so book a few weeks ahead. The occasional lean-to in the old core sits against soft brick, and that alone decides it is soft-washed.

What sets the price of a B48 conservatory clean

Three things set the figure: the size of the room, whether the roof is glass or polycarbonate, and how long the growth has been left. A lean-to washed last spring is a short job. A large valley conservatory that has spent eight years under a boundary hedge takes much longer and may need two applications, so photographs help us more than a description. Discoloured polycarbonate is quoted for what it is. The green will go, but a panel yellowed by sunlight is damaged material that no wash changes, and we point out which panels are which when we quote.

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Spring and autumn under the hedgerow, once a year in the open

Most conservatories here sit under hedgerow or trees in the valley bottom, and those want two visits a year: spring for the light, then autumn to clear the leaf and sap before winter. An addition in an open, sunny garden manages on one. Either way the gutter wants the shorter interval, because it overflows long before the roof looks bad.