Roof Pressure Washing in Sunrise, FL

Roof pressure washing in Sunrise, FL

Lake-adjacent and golf-course homes across Sunrise stay shaded and humid longer after a storm than inland lots do, which is exactly the condition algae needs to take hold and spread.

A Sunrise roof near water or fairway dries more slowly after rain than a roof set back from both, and algae spreads fastest on a surface that stays damp. That is one reason streaking shows up sooner on lakefront lots and homes along the Springtree Golf Club tree line than it does on newer, more open construction closer to Sawgrass International Corporate Park. Roof type here varies more by construction decade than by neighborhood, since concrete and clay tile are common on homes from the original 1960s and 1970s Sunrise Golf Village sections, while asphalt shingle shows up more on construction from the 1990s onward, the same period Sawgrass Mills opened nearby. Each one needs a different touch. Tile can crack under direct high-pressure contact, shingle granules wash away under a hard enough stream, and homes near one of Sunrise's lakes can pick up a faint mineral tint that makes streaking look worse than it is until the roof is actually rinsed. We use a low-pressure soft wash rather than a blaster on every roof type in Sunrise, so tile and shingle both come clean without stripping granules, cracking tile, or forcing water under the roofing material. The commercial corridor around Amerant Bank Arena and Sawgrass International Corporate Park sits in one of the newer, more open pockets of the city, and residential roofs nearby tend to dry within a day of a storm rather than the several days a shaded, lake-adjacent roof closer to Springtree Golf Club can take. Sunrise's average annual rainfall runs around 62 inches, split sharply between a wet summer and a drier winter, and a roof that gets a long dry stretch each winter still needs the algae checked after the first heavy rain of the following wet season. Sunrise's Seven Bridges course at Springtree Golf Club first opened in 1972 and was renovated in 2010, and the tree canopy that has grown up around it over fifty-plus years now shades a number of nearby roofs for most of the day, year-round. Sunrise's border with Weston, Davie, Tamarac, Lauderhill, and Plantation means a roof a few blocks from the city line can sit under very different canopy than one deep in the golf-course interior, even when both were built in the same decade. We look at the actual roof rather than assuming a schedule from the address alone, since the border streets and the golf-course interior rarely need a wash on the same calendar.

Sunrise roofs run from older tile and shingle near the original Sunrise Golf Village sections to newer construction closer to Sawgrass International Corporate Park. The older golf-course-adjacent homes, often shaded and near water, tend to show algae streaking sooner than the newer, more open sections of the city.

Soft wash or pressure washing?

This is the question that decides whether a roof cleaning helps your roof or hurts it.

We use a soft wash on every roof. The cleaner does the work, and the water only carries it off. That is slower than blasting, and it is the reason your roof comes out of it in one piece.

Safety, and what we leave to roofers

Roofs are dangerous places. We use the right ladder angle (see NIOSH guidance), we walk only on surfaces that can take it, and we never use high pressure. If a roof is too steep, too fragile, or too damaged to wash safely, we say so.

We clean roofs. We do not repair or replace them. When we find damaged roofing, we photograph it and tell you plainly, so a licensed roofer can take it from there.