Roof Cleaning — Melby Avenue, St Kilda East

Litter on the roof surface does three things at once. It holds water against the tiles instead of letting them dry, which is how moss starts. It keeps feeding the valleys and gutters below, so cleaning those alone treats the symptom. And wet litter is heavy — a roof carrying that much of it saturated is holding load it was never meant to.

The whole roof surface was cleared, not just the channels, and the litter bagged and taken away rather than swept off into the garden. Clearing the surface keeps the valleys and gutters clear longer, because the material that would refill them within a season is gone. In dry weather that litter is an ember trap sitting against the roof structure.

• Full roof surface cleared, not only valleys and gutters
• Over ten bags of leaf litter removed from site
• Valleys and gutters cleared in the same visit
• Litter bagged rather than swept into the garden
• Roof surface checked as debris came off
• Before and after photographs supplied

• More than ten bags of accumulated litter taken away
• Weight of saturated debris off the structure
• Source of the blockages removed, not just the blockages
• Dry litter cleared off the tiles before summer