I just moved to California and was surprised (happily as I really wanted to do the softwashing) to find the older tile roofs have thick (so you can’t see the tile anymore) green and yellow algae, vs the black mold and mildew I see in all the youtube videos. I am wondering how to approach this as it seems it will just turn white with good treatment not disappear. If I apply strong enough (assuming at least 6.25% and roof snot?) will I be able to rinse with say a garden hose afterward, just starting with northern tools portable unit with 4gpm until I can see if I can make the softwash on this thick algae work. We sometimes don’t get rain for 6 months or more, least any appreciable rain, though we do get good winds. I did start pressure washing in 1997 but haven’t done roof soft washing and actually stopped pressure washing since like 2015 so just adding the pressure washing again, and soft washing new, though I basically did that with the pressure washer before. Any advice would be wonderful as I’m a little flumixed, I haven’t been able to find anything on the topic in searches and youtube, but for one other guy in California but he didn’t get back to me when I emailed him a question.
New here and I’ve been scouring the internet trying to figure this out. Glad to find this active forum, have already read some good stuff.
We’ve got a few on here from CA. Hopefully one will see and answer. Though for the life of me don’t understand why anyone would move there. We’re inundated here with people moving out of CA along with plenty of yanks moving down always.
No one ever retires and moves up North. I wonder why?
I question it too, definitely doesn’t fit my politics, but I am a west coast boy. Also I am right next to 10,000ft Mt Baldy, beautiful mt stream and trees ten minutes while living in the city, clean, no homelessness, and just slightly less expensive than the Seattle area I came from. The weather, at least the winter has been great too.
That looks like paradise to me, ive been in florida for 50 years and other than short stints away im over it. Wouldnt want to live in CA but Montana, North Dakota, or Alaska is me 100%. I like freezing cold weather and scenery thats not all flat swamp. My wife is here 50 years also and so are all her family so shes not going anywhere which means neither am I.
Yeah it’s all about tradeoffs, wish California had some competition on weather and nature. Sure could make more money somewhere else, least considering costs and available work in our field.
Colorado
When I was was living out there for about 7 years it’s where all the Californians that hated what California had become moved to.
There are lots of beautiful places out there. Weather is great most the time, you don’t have nearly the bugs we have but got too many people and 1/2 of them wacko, lol. Pretty much any place a little cheaper than Seattle.
We’ve actually started to see a fair number of Colorado people moving here. I asked one not long ago why would they move here and quote " All the people moving in from CA and now they’re trying to make CO like CA", lol.
That’s exactly what I heard from the Colorado locals when living there! Now I swear there has to be billboards a plenty up on New York stating that Lexington, SC is the place to be. I picture a bunch of boards with Pedro from South of the Border saying to do just that.
I lived in CO back in the 70’s and 80’s, my mom was griping about the CA transplants back then.
