Yep that's a fair comment! I'd me more inclined to stick to the soft sponge. The 30 Seconds is more likely better as a preventative treatment, some people have told me they spray it once every 6 months and it keeps it pretty good. You need to get it before it starts growing too much mould though, and you also need some decent rain to wash it off.
Hi Sean, thanks for your question. In theory we don't recommend using a pressure washer as it can damage the UV protective coating. But in practice there are lots of installations that are very large and you may not be able to get to all of it by hand. If that's the case you can use a pressure washer on a very low setting. Start from quite far away and slowly move closer until it starts to take the grime off. Use the minimum pressure that possibly works. You can also generally get most of the sediment out of the overlaps in this way, by spraying from the side, under the overlap. Hope that helps :) Kurt.
We have a similar roof but fairly large like 400sft. Is it okay to get onto the roof? We have windows of second floor that needs stepping on to the roof to clean them. Also looking for recommendations on transluscent roofs which are stronger. Many roofers are not willing to step on to it 🙄
Hi there. You generally can't walk on the roof as the polycarbonate is too flexible. But you can put a walk board or even a sheet of thick plywood on top, making sure it's resting over the screws/purlins. You can put a cloth sheet down first to stop the board scratching it. Hope that helps! There's really no translucent roof that you can walk on, but the flat acrylic or polycarbonate may be easier to put walk boards on.
Hi there, it's not much louder than on a Coloursteel roof. We have some right outside our bedroom window and the noise doesn't bother us as night. Thanks, Kurt.
Hi there! thanks for the video . I have a question for you. I have a porch with an white opaque corrugated polycarbonate roof and from inside it is dirty. I am not sure wehther the roof suppose to be painted or just clean it the way you did. Like I said it is the inside of the roof. Thanks for your response.
Hi there, thanks for your question. You won't need to paint it. There are a few reasons it may be dirty on the underside. If there's cooking, machinery, any activity that it dusty or messy happening underneath it, some of this will collect on the surface of the sheets. Or if the sheets get condensation on the underside regularly, you can get dust sticking to this. Either way, you should be able to use warm soapy water to clean it off. Thanks, Kurt.
I've got a large covered deck with about 400sq ft of poly roof. The overlapping sections of poly are the toughest to clean and haven't found a solution for that. Wet everything down in advance to help too.
