ROOF CLEANING SCIENCE
The Science Behind the Roof Shampoo® Roof Cleaning Method.
The NON-bleach, ECO-FRIENDLY Roof Shampoo® roof cleaning soap is specially formulated and buffered to be used with a wide degree of safety. It is proven to be safe on landscaping around the home, yet highly effective at removing algae and other roof staining organisms from shingles.
Household plants have an exterior membrane called a cuticle that protects the plant from many substances, including Roof Shampoo®. Algae, however, doesn’t have a cuticle. It can be unicellular or form filaments, nets, sheets, spheres, or complex moss-like structures. So the Roof Shampoo® product attacks the algae and cleans it off the shingles while NOT harming other vegetation around the home!
Some roof cleaning contractors, however, use caustic chlorine bleach which is a powerful oxidizing agent capable of breaking up most protein structures, including the plant cuticles of the vegetation in the landscaping surrounding most homes. Think of the time you accidentally poured too much bleach on a laundry item…it was bleached white where the concentrated bleach hit it right? The whitening comes from the bleach oxidizing the fabric’s pigments and dyes. Now if you pour 12.5% bleach on your jeans for example, it will whiten them and then the cotton fibers will completely fall apart. The cotton fibers have been oxidized, in this case that literally means cut into smaller fragments. Your jeans will look like Swiss cheese. Often times roof cleaners who use bleach will use it in concentrations as high as 40% - 50%. Now imagine what that will do to your landscaping. Click here to read more about the different roof cleaning methods and the dangers of bleach.
