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How to clean your roof stains.
Soak the shingles with water.
Use a garden hose to rinse the stains and cleaning solution from the roof.
Mix your cleaning solution.
Rinse the section of the soffit you just scrubbed washing away all of the dirt and rinsing enough to clear the surface of detergent and bleach.
Allow the bleach to remain on for 15 to 20 minutes then rinse it off with a hose.
How to clean roof stains wash your shingles where the sun doesn t shine.
Bring your garden hose or water sprayer up to the roof.
Use a cleaner specially made for killing algae or by spraying a mixture of one part bleach to four parts water with tsp trisodium phosphate or other detergent added in a garden pump up sprayer.
Allow the oxygen bleach to sit on the shingles for 20 minutes.
Spray your cleaning solution.
Rinse from the top of the roof down to avoid re staining the shingles with the dirty water.
Allow the oxy bleach mixture to sit on the shingles for about 15 minutes.
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Algae can be killed and the stains removed using chemical cleaners though they usually return over time.
Fit a squeeze trigger nozzle onto the end of your garden hose turning it clockwise to tighten and turn the pressure on high.
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Set the garden hose on the spray setting with the highest pressure water and hold the nozzle close to the shingles when rinsing.
This will remove any stains that were loosed up by the oxygen bleach.
They spray it on the roof and wait for it to dry and then re apply it several times as needed.
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Set the nozzle at the highest pressure setting and hold it 12 inches from the shingles.
Do shingles on your north west or other shaded roofs have streaky moldy stains.
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