Errington moss removal
Moss Removal for Errington Homes, Shops and Barns
Inland frost, deep shade and three or four roofs on one lot. We clear moss from the house, the shop and the woodshed, and plan any treatment around your well.
Customer reviews
What customers say
The service provided by the owners of the company and the staff were beyond exceptional. The price was also very exceptable and affordable.
Amazing! Sent in a request form on their website in the morning, heard back that afternoon, and booked for the next day. Very fast, reliable, and efficient.
Why us
Why customers love our service
And why you will get the best moss removal service in Errington!
Fast and efficient moss removal
We turn up on the day we said, clear the whole roof, and get off your property without stretching the job out.
Clear and quick communication
You get an answer when you call or text, a price before we start, and a straight account of what we found up on the roof.
Five-star reviews
Consistent five-star reviews from the homeowners our crew works for.
Clearing moss since 2021
Asphalt shingle, cedar shake, tile and metal roofs, and the driveways and paths below them.
- Moss lifted off the roof by hand and the courses brushed clean
- A low-pressure soft wash as standard, and never high pressure on shingles or shakes
- Treatment applied where it helps slow the moss coming back, and we tell you what was used
- Moss and debris bagged as we work and taken away with us
- A look at shingles, flashing and the roof edge while we are up there
- Houses, townhouses, strata, commercial and multi-unit buildings
Before and after
One roof, before and after
Each set is shot from one position: once before we start, and again when the moss is off and the debris is gone.
Errington is an unincorporated farming and forest community inland from Parksville, in Electoral Area F of the Regional District of Nanaimo, with the Englishman River running through it and Englishman River Falls Provincial Park close by. Lots are large and the second-growth Douglas fir and western red cedar are tall. Most properties carry more than one roof: the house, a shop or garage, often a barn or hay shed, and a woodshed. Moss grows on nearly all of them, but it does not grow the same way on each, and that is what decides how we clear it.
Why moss gets a head start inland
Being a few kilometres back from the Strait of Georgia makes a difference. Winter nights are colder than they are on the Parksville waterfront, frost lingers in the shade into the afternoon, and snow tends to sit on a roof here for days after it has melted off homes by the water. All of that keeps a roof surface damp, and damp is what moss needs.
Then there are the trees. On a short December day, a roof in a clearing might get a couple of hours of low sun on its south face, while a north-facing slope under a stand of fir gets none at all until spring. Needles and cedar sprays drop onto the shingles, collect in valleys and behind chimneys, and break down into a thin layer of grit and organic matter. Moss roots into that layer long before it reaches the roofing underneath. Many homes out here heat with wood, and the chimney on the uphill side of the roof is often the first place we find a thick green wedge.
How it works
Getting Your Roof Moss Removal Booked
Simple from start to finish. Tell us about your roof, get a straightforward quote, and let us do the climbing.
Tell us about your roof
A few details are all we need.
Send us your address, the number of storeys, what the roof is made of if you know, and how much moss you can see from the ground—plus any trees hanging over it.
Get your quote
We price your roof, not a generic house.
Pitch, height, roofing material, how thick the moss is and how we get up there all matter. You'll have a clear quote before we start.
We clear the roof
You stay on the ground.
We lift the moss off by hand, brush the courses clean, treat the roof where it helps, and bag the moss and take it with us. Any washing is a low-pressure soft wash, and high pressure never touches your shingles.
You know what we found
We'll let you know if we spot something.
Lifted shingles? A cracked shake? Worn granules or tired flashing? We'll give you a straightforward heads-up.
That's it.
- You tell us about the roof.
- We give you a clear quote.
- We take the moss off.
- You get one less chore to worry about.
Ready to get the moss off your roof? Get your quote and let us do the climbing.
One property, four different roofs
A typical visit in Errington means walking the whole lot, because each building needs something different.
The house. Most have asphalt shingles, some of the older and custom-built homes have cedar shakes, and a growing number of newer ones have metal. Moss is usually heaviest on the slope facing the trees and lightest where the roof catches afternoon sun. We clear the house by hand, brushing and scraping downslope with the shingle so the tabs are not lifted.
The shop or garage. These are very often metal. Moss on a metal roof lives in the debris trapped at panel laps, ridge caps and the lower edge, and wet debris sitting on painted steel is how rust gets started. Our page on tile and metal roofs explains how we clean them without damaging the coating.
The barn or hay shed. Tall walls and long slopes mean we look at access and footing before we quote, and we ask what is stored underneath so nothing gets dropped onto feed or equipment.
The woodshed. Small, low and usually in the deepest shade on the property. It is often completely green, and clearing it while we are already there takes little extra time.
The work
On the job
Cedar shakes on the older acreage homes
A shake roof under trees is where moss does the most harm. The cushions hold rainwater against the wood for months at a time, the shakes stay swollen, and the butts start to soften and split. We clear shakes with soft brushes and plastic scrapers worked along the grain and never use a pressure washer on them, since water at pressure tears out the soft fibres and ages the roof by years in an afternoon. Some shakes on a neglected roof are past saving, and if that is what we find, we will say so plainly. More on the method is on our cedar shake roofs page.
Treatment on a lot with a well, a garden and animals
Rural lots carry things a town lot does not: a drinking-water well, vegetable beds against the house, chickens or horses, a rainwater tank, sometimes a pond. Before any treatment goes on a roof, we ask where each of those is and where that roof’s downspouts empty. Some roofs get treated and some get cleared by hand and left at that. A zinc strip is not the way around a spray here: it sheds zinc with every rain, so neither it nor a treatment goes on a roof that drains to stored water, a pond or ground near the wellhead. Our moss treatment and prevention page covers the choices and what each one realistically does.
Limbing up the branches that hang over a roof helps more than anything we can put on it. That is a job for an arborist, but we can show you which limbs are casting the worst shade.
Paths and steps under the trees
The same shade turns concrete walks, paver patios and the steps down from the back door green and slick through the wet months. Our driveway and sidewalk moss removal service covers them on the same trip as the roof.
Why choose us
Why choose us for moss removal in errington
Every roof on the lot
House, shop, barn and woodshed looked at on one visit, with a separate figure for each so you decide what gets done.
No high pressure on roofing
Shingles and cedar shakes are cleared with brushes and scrapers by hand. Washing is low pressure; anything stronger stays on concrete.
Treatment planned around water
We ask about wells, rain tanks, gardens and stock before any product goes on a roof, and leave it off where it should not go.
Insured, WCB-registered, guaranteed
Locally owned, insured and WCB-registered, clearing moss since 2021. If something is not right, we come back and make it right.
Getting a quote
Send us your address, how many buildings have moss on them, what each roof is made of if you know, and a photo or two of the worst slope. Tell us about gates, dogs and stock, and whether the property runs on a well. The quote is free, and we also work in neighbouring Coombs and Nanoose Bay.
Got questions?
Errington moss removal questions
Our shop has a metal roof with moss growing along the panel laps. Can you clear it without scratching the paint?
Yes. On metal, the moss is rooted in the needle litter caught at the laps, around fasteners and along the bottom edge, not in the panel itself. We lift that litter out with soft brushes and plastic scrapers and sweep the panels down. Nothing hard goes against the painted finish, because a scratch there is where rust starts.
We collect rainwater off the house roof. Can it still be treated?
A roof that feeds a rainwater tank or cistern gets cleared by hand only. We leave the treatment and any zinc strip off it unless you have confirmed with whoever looks after your system that they suit it, and we ask you to keep the inlet diverted until a good rain has rinsed loosened grit off the roof. A roof that drains to the ground well away from the wellhead is a different conversation, and we go through it with you before anything is applied.
Is it worth doing the woodshed and the barn, or only the house?
That depends on what each building is worth to you. A woodshed roof under the trees can be solid green and still keep the wood dry for years. A barn or shop roof with moss holding water against its fasteners is worth clearing sooner. We quote each roof separately so you can choose, and doing several on one trip saves booking a separate visit for each.
Someone cleaned our roof three years ago and the moss is back. Did they do it wrong?
Not necessarily. Under tall conifers with an inland winter, moss starts again within a few seasons whatever is done. Spores are everywhere and the shade has not gone anywhere. A follow-up treatment, a zinc strip at the ridge and some limbing of the worst branches all slow it down. None of them stop it for good, and we will not tell you otherwise.
Moss from the roof ends up in our gutters. Do you clean those too?
Anything we knock loose during the job is cleared from the roof edge, lifted out of the trough and bagged before we leave. That is the part of the gutter a moss job covers.
Moss removal in Errington
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