I have been getting some calls lately for homes with no gutters and plants directly below them. My first instinct tells me, use a lighter mix for the roof (shingle) 3%. Secondly water the plants. Third tarp, but what about after my mix is left on the roof? Also the roof contains moss and lichen, so I tend to use much more mix bc the moss and lichen absorbs more also doesn't get killed as easily. How do you florida guys deal with no gutters?
Dan
Laurie Benjamin said
Jun 24, 2012
We don't operate in Florida lol but where I am at I would spray the plant fortifyer on the plants after I am finised and reccomend to the customer that they should wet their plants every morning for a while just to prepare for the dew run_off
AC Lockyer said
Jun 24, 2012
Did you watch the Plant & Prop Protection Module?
AC
Danny Cronauer said
Jun 25, 2012
I believe so, for some reason I remember they placed a rubbermaid container at the valley, catching all of the solution. This roof has no valleys. Simple gable, I am just a plant protection FREAK! That's why I bought the plant wash :)
AC Lockyer said
Jun 25, 2012
PRE WATER AND SATURATE SOIL, Then treat roof, rinse, rinse, rinse, then apply Plant Wash as final step.
AC
Danny Cronauer said
Jun 26, 2012
Going after it tomorrow. We just had rain here today, so that also helps.
Chris Francis said
Jun 26, 2012
I agree with AC I am two man team my wife pre waters the plants when I am setting up and she keeps pre wetting the soil through the hole clean and I try not to cover any of the plants with plastic.
Josh Scavetta said
Jun 26, 2012
My experience with plants is this. plants that are in bloom are easy to damage even if the solution sit on for a couple of seconds without getting rinsed off. plants like shrubs can take a little more abuse. we use blue tarps on the flowers that are in bloom but only leave them on for the short time we are spraying and never get the green house effect. Granted we are in CT its not like Florida weather but we just had a week that was mid 90's. All the other shrubs we just wet down along with the grass before and after.
If you want to be really smart and know your limits, go to a garden place and buy some cheep plants. put them in your back yard and spray them with 3% mix. wait for a couple of seconds and rinse off. come back in 3 days and look for damage. Then give me the results.. haha
Good luck my friend
Danny Cronauer said
Jun 26, 2012
Well I am the plant nazi, so there was tarps, watering, watering, roof rinsing, watering, then plant wash. Then I told the HO to water them in the morning. Lesson learned add +$200 for every home with no gutters.
Doug Rucker said
Jun 27, 2012
safe roof cleaning hartford wrote:
My experience with plants is this. plants that are in bloom are easy to damage even if the solution sit on for a couple of seconds without getting rinsed off. plants like shrubs can take a little more abuse. we use blue tarps on the flowers that are in bloom but only leave them on for the short time we are spraying and never get the green house effect. Granted we are in CT its not like Florida weather but we just had a week that was mid 90's. All the other shrubs we just wet down along with the grass before and after.
If you want to be really smart and know your limits, go to a garden place and buy some cheep plants. put them in your back yard and spray them with 3% mix. wait for a couple of seconds and rinse off. come back in 3 days and look for damage. Then give me the results.. haha
Good luck my friend
+100000000000000000000000
AC Lockyer said
Jun 30, 2012
Spraying plants directly with your wand even allowing the chems to dry on them doesnt seem to do the same damage as actually cleaning a roof. It has WAY more to do with the concentration of the chems as they dry on the roof dripping onto the plants later with dew. Also has almost everything to do with sanitizing the soil and the plants starving to death from lack of benificial bacteria in the soil after a roof cleaning. WATCH THE PLANT AND PROP PROTECTION MODULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 20 years of wisdom there.
I have been getting some calls lately for homes with no gutters and plants directly below them. My first instinct tells me, use a lighter mix for the roof (shingle) 3%. Secondly water the plants. Third tarp, but what about after my mix is left on the roof? Also the roof contains moss and lichen, so I tend to use much more mix bc the moss and lichen absorbs more also doesn't get killed as easily. How do you florida guys deal with no gutters?
Dan
AC
AC
I agree with AC I am two man team my wife pre waters the plants when I am setting up and she keeps pre wetting the soil through the hole clean and I try not to cover any of the plants with plastic.
If you want to be really smart and know your limits, go to a garden place and buy some cheep plants. put them in your back yard and spray them with 3% mix. wait for a couple of seconds and rinse off. come back in 3 days and look for damage. Then give me the results.. haha
Good luck my friend
+100000000000000000000000
AC