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Moss, Debris, and What to Expect in the Great NW

May 10th, 2012 by John Carter

Watch Patrick Morin and Ernest Murry as they look at a common scene here in the Great North West.

Script

“This is Patrick and Ernest Roof Life of Oregon we’re on a 5 year old presidential asphalt shingle in Lake Oswego. This used to be all shake in here and people have been switching over to an asphalt shingle thinking that it’s going to get them out of maintenance. As we look at this roof this is the type and kind of moss that is a shingle eating moss. There are three varieties. You’ve got the roly poly kind that likes to form on the ends of the shingles. It forms a wedge and tries to break the seal of the shingle. Then you have this type which is the leafy furry ever invasive type (of) moss. And it is actually eating the asphalt shingle right off the fiberglass matt. So if this is left like this this, it’s going to take this 50 year roof and make it a 15 year roof really fast. So what we’re going to do with this roof, we’re going to first just check all of the components and then gently remove the moss and put a treatment on here that will keep it from coming back for 3 full years. If they have a debris issue which you can see by the chimney chase, obviously there are debris issues we can maintain this with compressed air on an annual basis and then just treat this thing. This is roof maintenance in the great North West. Patrick and Ernest Roof Life of Oregon.”

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Roof Leaks: What a Leaking Roof Might Be Trying To Tell You

February 3rd, 2012 by John Carter

Have a leak in your roof? Get an honest and professional answer as to what is causing your roof leak. Watch Daniel White as he describes to us the surprise he found when investigating a leak for a homeowner in Cornelius.

Script:

“Today we’re out in Cornelius looking at a valley on this roof. We thought initially it was the debris that was backing up inside this valley (causing a leak) but it is not. A couple of things are going on here. One the roof has two layers. Two when the homeowner bought the house it already had this roof and they didn’t realize whoever put the roof on completely installed this roof wrong. There’s an area called a nailing zone, you have to hit that nailing zone with your nails or the roof is just not going to function right.

I’m going to show you what we noticed right away. This part of the shingle started pulling out. These are called the dragon teeth. What’s happening is there are no nails holding this part on. There’s a nailing zone right here where this line is. This line is where the nail should be. If there had been a nail here this piece would have never slid out but they are. So now the water is feeding back in behind the shingle running back in behind this piece of metal and finding that second layer of roofing and leaking on the inside. We did find some nails on this roof though, way up at the top of the shingle, completely wrong. Every shingle has about 3 nails, here, there there’s one over there all those nails should have been right along that line, minimum of 4 nails. They didn’t (install them correctly) they put them up here and this entire roof is installed incorrectly so there is absolutely no warranty on this roof and unfortunately this homeowner really needs to replace this roof.”

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Copper / Zinc Strip Failure – Moss in the Portland Area

June 15th, 2011 by John Carter

We’re on a 7 year old asphalt shingle roof. This is actually the best I have ever seen a copper or zinc strip work. This is actually copper so it matches the color of the house so you can see that it kept the moss off for about 5 rows and then it starts growing on there and you can see how heavy it (the moss) gets as the farther away from the zinc or copper strip.

This copper strip seems to be working a lot better than the zinc strips that I’ve seen. Of course underneath the trees it gets pretty bad, and this moss will actually destroy this roof. It will eat it and lift it and cause it to leak in half the time if it was maintained or was in an area where there wasn’t moss problems.

Also, in an area of debris, you can’t let this happen. This will rot out the shingles and this intersection here would be compromised if this was not maintained. Of course we are looking at the north side and you can see all the way across the roof that for the first two or three feet that copper is working really well. Then as the copper oxide runs out of energy the moss starts growing.

Roof Life of Oregon does roof maintenance on all types of roofing. This is an example of a 40 year architectural laminated shingle 5-7 years old growing quite a bit of a moss so we are going to help this client.

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Gutter Debris: Special Finger Painting Gutter Ooze

February 4th, 2011 by Jesse Liebman

Special finger painting gutter ooze has been identified as the suspect in a recent house splattering incident. Dan K. sent us a complaint through Yelp stating:

My neighbor had their roof cleaned by Roof Life of Oregon. I went out to see how the job was being done and to make sure my house wouldn’t get splattered. Didn’t think there would be a problem because of the distance between the houses. Wrong! Went back out later and found debris from my neighbor’s roof splattered all over the side of my house from the top floor to the ground – somehow splattering the crud even higher on my house than the height of the single story house he was working on . . .

What Dan doesn’t take into account is when we clean a roof we also clean out all of the gutters. ‘Splattering crud’ is inevitable as we explain, with your mind in the gutter, the problem with gutter debris.

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The Benefits of Keeping Roof Debris Off Your Roof

November 12th, 2010 by Jesse Liebman

The effects of not properly maintaining your roof are very noticeable as we discussed roof leaks and wet rot earlier this week.

The photo below shows a great comparison between a roof properly maintained using the Roof Life of Oregon roof maintenance process, roofs choosing a competitors process, and roofs choosing not to do anything.

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Dealing with Roof Debris: The Roof Life of Oregon Way

November 9th, 2010 by Jesse Liebman

This home has a roof debris problem that can be easily seen from the ground level. Roof debris can cause several long term problems, but the most immediate problem is it’s preventing our roof consultants from determining the amount of roof cleaning or roof repairs.

Below is a photo of a roof with tree debris. The areas to really focus on are the keyways, the space between each shake, which are filled with roof debris on large portion of this roof.

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What is Roof Debris?

November 8th, 2010 by Jesse Liebman

Roof debris is a common problem found on roofs in the Greater Portland area. The natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest can also create havoc on your roof without a little TLC. A key question to ask yourself is, when a roofing contractor says you have ‘roof debris’ what does that mean?

Living in the Greater Portland area makes it nearly impossible to not have some kind of roof debris. If you’ve never been up on your roof before it’s difficult to know what it looks like or how bad the debris is. The roof below is a great example of a roof that has not been maintained in a heavy tree area.

There are several types of roof debris that may be on your roof which can be found below:

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