Conservatory Cleaning for Selly Oak Family Semis
The housing explains it. The Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Bournbrook and the Bristol Road took brick kitchen extensions at the back, and their yards are small and mostly built over. Conservatories in B29 belong to the owner-occupied streets instead, where plots are longer and families built out into the garden through the 1990s and 2000s.
Those additions are now twenty or thirty years old. They stand on the interwar semis along and off Selly Park Road and Raddlebarn Road, and on some family houses a few streets back from the Bristol Road. Plenty have a roof that turned green years ago, and the room slowly became a place for bikes and recycling. A thorough clean usually brings it back into use.
- Service
- Conservatory Cleaning
- Area covered
- Selly Oak, B29
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- How we do it
- Soft wash on the roof, no pressure on seals or polycarbonate
- From our Selly Oak base
- On the doorstep
- Price
- Quoted per property before we start (what the quote covers)
- Booking
- Call or WhatsApp 07788 574283
Algae on lean-to roofs behind the Selly Park semis
The pattern repeats from house to house. A polycarbonate or glass roof, usually on a lean-to or a Victorian-style addition, gathers algae season after season, and on a shaded rear elevation it never gets enough sun to dry out between showers. On the Selly Park plots the gardens are long enough for mature trees, so sap and leaf tannin settle on the panels as well. The terraced streets have few trees, and there the problem is simply a room nobody sits in. A handful of glazed additions also stand on professional lets near the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where the owner wants the room to count at a viewing.
- Lean-to and Victorian-style additions of twenty to thirty years on the semis towards Selly Park Road
- Roofs green for long enough that the room ended up holding bikes and boxes
- Garden trees on the longer Selly Park plots leaving sap and tannin over the algae
- Glazed rear rooms on professional lets near the Queen Elizabeth Hospital that need to show well
- Small lean-tos on the odd terrace off the Bristol Road, reached through the shared entry
No high pressure on ageing seals and glazing bars
Nothing goes on at high pressure. A jet scores polycarbonate, pushes water past ageing seals and can split a brittle glazing bar, and on a Selly Park semi the conservatory is often the most fragile part of the house. Cleaning solution is applied to the roof panels, left long enough to loosen the algae, then rinsed away with pure water so no film dries on the glass. Frames and glazing bars are wiped by hand where they can be reached from the ground, the ridge by brush on the pole, with a different product on aluminium from the one used on uPVC. The low conservatory gutter is cleared in the same visit, since it takes the run-off and moss from the main roof and fills well ahead of the house gutters.
- Solution and dwell time on the roof, then a pure-water rinse, with no jet near the seals
- The conservatory’s own gutter cleared and flushed within the same booking
- Frames and bars cleaned by hand, the ridge by pole brush, with aluminium and uPVC treated separately
- Seals and glazing bars checked, with anything tired pointed out to you
More detail on the equipment and the order of work: how we do conservatory cleaning, step by step.
Family semis off Raddlebarn Road and Selly Park Road
The glazed additions sit on the semis and family houses towards Selly Park Road and Raddlebarn Road, where the gardens run back further. Spring is the natural time to book, so the room is bright and usable by summer. Conservatory work does not follow the student calendar, so a slot can often be found at short notice, which is not true of the July end of tenancy weeks.
Size, roof material and seasons of growth
The quote depends on the size of the conservatory, whether the roof is glass or polycarbonate, and how many seasons of growth it carries. A small lean-to cleaned each spring is a short visit. A large Victorian-style roof on a Selly Park semi that has been green for eight years may need two applications and a good deal longer on site. One thing cleaning cannot change: polycarbonate that has turned yellow has been degraded by sunlight, and the colour is in the plastic itself. The algae comes away completely and the yellow tint remains. On an older B29 conservatory the two often appear together, and we point out which is which when we quote.
A spring clean, and a second only under an overhanging tree
Once a year, in spring, suits most conservatories in Selly Oak. A second visit makes sense only where a garden tree genuinely overhangs the roof, which applies to a small number of the long plots towards Selly Park. A roof left for years takes a substantial first clean; each yearly visit after that is short.
Nice man great at what he does
Absolutely brilliant service. Adefem was professional, job well done. Everything was left beautifully clean, and I was genuinely impressed.
First time customer. Excellent service and great job. Will definitely be using them again in the future.
Selly Oak · Conservatory Cleaning
Frequently asked questions
Yes. It is an unusual feature on those streets, which mostly have brick kitchen extensions and small walled yards, but we will quote any conservatory in B29. Access through the shared entry is the main thing to check before we come.
The green will, the yellow will not. On the polycarbonate lean-tos and Victorian-style additions behind the Selly Park semis, yellowing is sunlight breaking down the sheet, so the discolouration is inside the sheet where no cleaning product reaches. New panels are the only fix, and that is work for a glazier.
Usually, yes. Soft-washing removes years of algae, the light comes back through the roof, and a room that had become storage can go back into daily use. That first clean is the bigger job; keeping it clear each spring afterwards costs far less.
Yes, it can, which is why we do not use one. High pressure forces water past seals that have been through two decades of weather and leaves permanent scratches in polycarbonate. We use a low-pressure soft-wash and give the solution time to break the growth down.
Yes. It sits under the main roof slope, catches moss and grit washing down, and blocks before the house gutters do. Cleaning the roof and leaving that gutter full would only send the water somewhere else, so it is part of the job.
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