Conservatory Roof Cleaning South of Kings Heath Park
The interwar semis below Kings Heath Park have proper rear gardens, and glazed additions went up on plenty of them through the 1990s and 2000s. There are older, larger conservatories on the bigger houses towards Moseley and around Highbury Park as well.
The Victorian and Edwardian terraces off the High Street have small rear yards, most already taken up by a kitchen and an outbuilding, so the work here follows the gardens: south of the park, and out towards Moseley.
- Service
- Conservatory Cleaning
- Area covered
- Kings Heath, B14
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- How we do it
- Soft wash on the roof, no pressure on seals or polycarbonate
- From our Selly Oak base
- About 12 minutes
- Price
- Quoted per property before we start (how quotes work)
- Booking
- Call or WhatsApp 07788 574283
North-facing roofs and sap from the Highbury Park trees
Kings Heath conservatories have one local aggravation, and it is aspect. Plenty of rear elevations in B14 face north, and a roof that never gets a drying run of direct sun holds moisture and grows algae faster than the same roof two streets away facing the other way. Add the mature trees around Highbury Park and along the older roads towards Moseley, dropping sap and leaf tannin on top of that algae, and a twenty-year-old polycarbonate roof goes from tired to more or less opaque quicker than the owner expects. Many have gone years without being touched.
- North-facing rear elevations, where a roof never gets a drying run of sun and algae keeps its grip
- Lean-to and Victorian-style additions from the 1990s and 2000s on the interwar semis south of Kings Heath Park
- Sap and leaf tannin from the mature trees near Highbury Park and the Moseley end, settling over the algae
- Roofs left long enough that the room has quietly turned into somewhere to keep the bikes
- Larger, older conservatories on the bigger houses towards Moseley, with more roof area and more tree cover
Low pressure only, on brittle glazing bars and original seals
Low pressure throughout, and no pressure washer comes off the van at all. The additions in B14 are mostly of an age where the seals are original, the glazing bars have gone brittle and the polycarbonate marks if you are heavy-handed with it, so the algae is broken down chemically and rinsed away, with nothing blasted off. Panels get the solution and the time it needs, which is longer on a shaded elevation. Frames, bars and finials are done by hand. The conservatory gutter is emptied and flushed from the ground on the same visit.
- No pressure washer used at any point, because the seals and glazing bars here are original to the addition
- Longer dwell time on a shaded north elevation, where the growth is thicker and better attached
- The conservatory gutter emptied and flushed from the ground, not billed afterwards
- A straight note on the state of the seals, because a 1990s addition is frequently near the end of them
More detail on the equipment and the order of work: our conservatory cleaning method.
Where the conservatories in B14 actually are
South of Kings Heath Park, and east towards Moseley and Highbury Park, conservatories turn up on the semis and the larger houses with proper gardens behind them. March and April are the natural months, before anybody wants to sit in the room. Kings Heath is close to our base, so a date inside a week is usually possible.
Floor area, roof material and time since the last clean
Three things set the number: the floor area of the addition, what the roof is made from, and how long since anybody last touched it. A small lean-to kept on a yearly cycle is an hour or two. One that has been shaded and green since the last decade needs two passes of solution and most of a morning, and north-facing roofs in B14 nearly always land in that group whatever their age. The limit worth knowing before you commit is that yellowed polycarbonate is not soiled, it is ultraviolet damage to the sheet itself. Cleaning takes the green and leaves the yellow, and we will say which you have when we look.
A March or April clean, plus autumn on a north-facing roof
Annually covers most of them, taken in March or April so the glass is clear before anybody wants to sit under it. Where the roof faces north, an autumn pass earns its money in a way it would not on a sunny south elevation. One sitting under a tree near Highbury Park genuinely wants two visits. After a long neglect, the first clean is the big one and everything after it is quick.
Charles was great. He was very professional and did a great job.
First time customer. Excellent service and great job. Will definitely be using them again in the future.
Absolutely brilliant service. Adefem was professional, job well done. Everything was left beautifully clean, and I was genuinely impressed.
Kings Heath · Conservatory Cleaning
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Most B14 conservatories sit on the semis south of the park, but a lean-to on a terrace is priced and cleaned like any other: the roof, the frames and the small gutter along its edge.
No, that is aspect, nothing you have done. A north-facing roof never gets the run of direct sun that dries a south-facing one out, so algae re-establishes faster and holds on harder. The practical answer is a spring clean plus a lighter one in autumn, which is cheaper than letting it get back to the state it was in.
No, not the amber: the green goes and the amber stays. After twenty summers facing the sky, ultraviolet light has broken the sheet down, so the colour is in the panel and not on it. Algae and tree film on top come off completely, and under the Highbury Park trees that is often most of the gloom. Replacing the panels is the only fix for the tint, and that is a glazing job.
Yes, and on the semis south of the park it makes obvious sense: the gutter run is your own, not shared with next door, so there is no coordinating with neighbours and it is simple to add. The conservatory guttering is included in the conservatory price either way.
Yes, usually, and it surprises people. Take a decade of growth off the panels and the daylight returns, and rooms that had become somewhere to keep the bikes and the recycling get used again. The caveat is structural. If the frame is failing or the seals have perished you hear that first, because there is little sense spending on the appearance of something that needs replacing.
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