You can see a large layer of roof moss laying on the roof underlayment of this house. Believe it or not, the roof contractor for this job is going to roof right over this roof moss without taking the time to clean it off. We’ve talked several times about the problems that can occur when roof moss gets underneath your asphalt shingles. The roof moss will physically lift up your shingles allowing water to get to your fasteners and cause a leak in your roof. What do you think is going to happen if you plant roof moss underneath a layer or asphalt shingles?

This kind of problem simply wont happen if you choose Roof Life of Oregon for your roof replacement project. If you want a cheap roof that only takes a few days to complete then we are not the company for you. If you want the best roof in Portland that comes with the only lifetime workmanship warranty in town then call (503) 925-0125 or fill out our roof replacement form.

At Roof Life of Oregon, we recognize that hand picking or scrubbing your roof would not be the most economical roof cleaning solution for you or our company. Instead we use a low pressure/high volume water system to help schluff off the moss and algae living on your roof. At first glance, the system we use looks like a pressure washer. If you were driving by while one of our treating crews were working you might think they were pressure washing the roof. The difference lies in the equipment we use and the technique our technicians use. Our cleaning trucks are comprised of custom specialty equipment and all of our technicians are trained to use the lowest amount of pressure possible during the cleaning process.

There is not doubt that pressure washing your roof will be a cheaper solution today than choosing Roof Life of Oregon’s roof cleaning process. However, if you don’t want to replace your roof 10-15 years sooner than the stated manufacture warranty (see the photo above) then choosing Roof Life of Oregon is your best long term solution for peace of mind. Roof Life of Oregon offers a free roof inspection to help you determine the current condition of your roof. Call us at (503) 925-0125 or visit our roof inspection form sheet to have one of our roof consultants give you a fair and honest roof evaluation.

Today, Patrick D. Morin shows us that this roof is not destined for failure, in fact with the suggested Roof Life of Oregon roof maintenance solution this homeowner will have his roof looking in tip-top shape.

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When we come up on a roof, this is a nine year old PABCO, it looks like a castle grey in color. It is well ventilated, if you look up here on the can vents, it’s well ventilated. It’s ventilated correctly; it’s just having a moss problem on the northeast side. Before it gets under the shingle we’re going to clean this off, treat it, and keep it treated every three years so that it never destroys this roof so that he can get the full 30, 40, or 50 years the manufacturer says he should get on this roof.

If you’re tired of using do-it-yourself products like zinc strips on your roof call (503-925-0125) or complete our form for a free roof maintenance inspection.

Patrick D. Morin today shows us what happens to an architectural shingle roof when it has heavy roof moss.

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What we do is, as you’ll see once you come away from the galvanized metal, you have this pretty heavy growth. The problem with heavy growth on an architectural shingle is this shingle’s fastener is right underneath this lip. If he lets this moss grow it’s going to get underneath the shingle and it’s going to lift that and then the water is going to come down here. Now he’s getting it soon enough, it’s getting pretty heavy, water will run down and be forced sideways before it can find its way down and then the water going sideways is going to find the fasteners and start to leak on this roof. These roofs are designed for water to run vertically down them, not to run across. Heavy moss forces water horizontally and causes roofs to fail prematurely.

If you want to prevent your roof from failing prematurely give us a call (503-925-0125) or complete our form for a free roof maintenance inspection.

Patrick D. Morin shows us the extremes some homeowners will go to protect their roof from moss without using Roof Life of Oregon’s services.

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This is a video for all those in Portland that think that zinc and copper strips control moss. Here you have a zinc strip nailed straight through the top of his ridge and there’s moss growing right next to it. It really doesn’t do anything except put a lot of holes in your roof and it doesn’t keep the growth from coming. This is a roof that’s going to need to be professionally cleaned off and treated. It just has an environment, this is upwind from the roof, and this is a roof that’s going to take a lot of help from keeping the buildup of debris and moss from getting on here. The zinc strip won’t do it as you can tell.

If you’re tied of using the ‘do-it-yourself’ option and not seeing any results then call on a professional. Roof Life of Oregon has spent the past 28 years fighting yukies and nasties and offers Portland’s only no growth guarantee. Ask your local Home Depot employee if ‘Moss Boss’ offers that type of warranty. If you’re dissatisfied with the answer you receive give us a call at (503) 925-0125 or fill out our form for a free roof inspection.

The problem is this roof is about 30 square feet. 15 feet of clean roofing out of 900 feet of total roofing is only 1.6% success rate. Patrick D. Morin goes into further details on the problem with using a zinc strip.

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I wanted to show how a zinc, and other metallic metals, and in particular our product, which is a sodium silica based preservative, keeps the moss off of architectural shingle roofs. This is a huge smoke stack with almost three feet of galvanized metal, plus a two foot base, and the water running off of this is keeping this roof completely clean all the way down to the gutter. Almost 15 feet of roof has absolutely no moss on it. The base metal in galvanization is zinc, so zinc oxide is flowing off of this flashing and keeping this roof moss free below it. The reason why you can’t put humongous strips of galvanized metal on a roof is one, they blow off, they’re very unsightly and they’d be cost prohibitive.

If you’re tired of unsightly roof moss, and want something with a higher success rate, then give us a call (503-925-0125) or complete our form for a free roof maintenance inspection.

What does Oregon and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have in common? More than you’d like.

The radioactive slime, Retromutagen Ooze, helped mutate the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from house pets to mean, green, fighting machines. Unfortunately, what we commonly call ‘Oregon Slime’ doesn’t have the same residual effects. Patrick D. Morin takes us on an explanatory journey of Oregon Slime.

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This is Patrick Morin, Roof Life of Oregon it’s May 12th 2010 a lot of people are wondering when they don’t have any trees up above it or any debris falling on the roof why would I need my gutters cleaned? It’s interesting, I just unplugged the downspout around the corner here, but this is what forms in gutters in Oregon. It’s just what’s called Oregon slime, and it’s about an inch thick, and it fills up your gutters. When the summer comes, everything dries out and it turns into a hard long king of a boat shape type thing. Then it slides down right over your downspouts so you end up with plugged gutters. Whenever we use our product, on our self cleaning products, you see how this forms here, that’s what’s in this gutter. It’s just Oregon slime we call it. It forms in all the gutters, plugs up downspouts, and that’s why you get overflowing downspouts that don’t have any trees or debris around it.

Ask yourself this question: ‘When was the last time someone checked my roof?’ If you can’t remember or its been more than five years than it’s time to have us do a free roof inspection. Don’t let your home become the victim of an Oregon slime attack!

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This is what I’m talking about when I say you let the moss get serious on here, this roof will fail 2 to 3 times sooner than it should just because they’ve let this moss form in these keyways and it will get underneath that shingle and it will lift it up, remember these shingles are designed to traffic vertically, running up and down the shingle, actually down the shingle, they are not designed to handle water trafficked horizontally on the shingle. Moss, debris, buildup, tree debris and stuff like that, that will actually cause the water to travel horizontally and find fasteners and get into the structure.

Don’t let your roof moss problem get to this point. Your architectural shingle roof should be inspected once every three years to ensure it’s functioning properly. If you can’t remember the last time a roofing contractor looked at your roof it’s time to take Roof Life of Oregon up on it’s free roof inspection offer.

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I have a lot of people that ask me “Hey, what’s the problem with moss on an architectural composition roof?” and I wanted to show you this visual of how the moss forms in the little drain areas and then it feeds the spores down underneath the shingle and it actually starts growing and lifting up the shingle.
So, when you get heavy rain, anything out of the ordinary, all of this moss and support system that has lifted the shingle, it allows the water to get to the fasteners and continued water to the fasteners; you see how far the moss has grown up underneath there, continued water to the fasteners, which by the way are right there, you can see where the fasteners are, if water was able to run across this shingle in any direction because it has lifted up, you can see how these are lifted up. That all has been done by Mother Nature by allowing too much moss to form on these shingles, and they just lift them up and then all of a sudden water in getting into your building and you are trying to figure out why. That nail by the way is a low nail, should’ve been up another inch, most shingles put on by most contractors are put on really, really fast, they’re paid by the square and then you get one like this where they are put in at an angle and the head has poked a hole through that shingle already and boy if any water gets to that it is just going to leak. In a perfect situation as long as the shingles are sealed down tight, no problem, but when moss is allowed to form they lift as you can see there, those are lifted all because of moss and this is a very un-mossy roof, the other side of this roof is horrendous.

If you think you have a roof moss problem, Roof Life of Oregon will provide a free roof inspection to ensure your roof stays in tip-top shape.