Cedar shake roof, copper gutters

I got a call to go look at a cedar shake roof this afternoon. No problem. I went to take a look. Copper gutters, trees up against the roof, and landscaping for miles. Multiple angles. Kind of a nightmare job. I told them there’s more risk with me cleaning it than letting the moss grow. I pulled an @Innocentbystander and moon walked away.

My question though is: If you’d take this how would you approach this project from start to finish. Protecting the copper/landscaping, all the way to bleach neutralizer at the end. How would you mitigate the risk?

It’s hard to tell since the only pic of any landscaping is a tree branch 20 feet up, lol. Dude, you need to do that job. That’s a big ticket, probably in the 5-7k range. At most will take you a couple of days. An overhead would help.
Don’t worry about the copper gutters, you’re going to be shooting from ladder so shouldn’t get any on outside of.

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I knew I was gonna say no down the block. Lol. There’s bushes and the thick bright, flower beds low to the ground and thick around 60% or better of the house. I forget what they call that. Pretty tough to even get a ladder in. I wish I had taken pics of the landscaping. This place was like a hobbit house but huge.

There’s way too much easy money coming in at the moment to risk having to polish gutters for me. Plus the moss is thicker than the pics portray. I’m not even remotely interested. Lol

Give them a price, but tell them they’ll get a better job in the late fall after all the folage? is gone. That’d be a nice job in Nov.

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That’s a fantastic idea

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That’s what I do with large deck jobs. Schedule for August or late or real early in the season. Tell the customer that they don’t want me to tie up their deck for a week in the middle of prime grilling season.

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Explain to the customer, that with all the plants, you’d have to charge a huge extra amount for all the plant protection, which you would. If everything is dormant, not so much. Tell them will probably save them at least a thousand or so. That does 2 things, works better for you and gets the idea in their head that cleaning that sucker not going to be cheap when you’re talking plant protection alone being in the 2-3k range.

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You could also try Sodium percarbonate (powder). When mixed with water, it makes hydrogen peroxide. I haven’t tried it yet, but learned about this product through a pwra member

Would sodium percarbonate be a good option to wash a house with copper gutters and over hangs? I have read on DSR-49 label that it can be used to wash vinyl. I have three pending jobs that involve copper of some sort. I was thinking about taping them off with painters tape but exploring my options here

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Man I would love to get a roof like that this week. It’s just starting to pick up here. Got my first cedar roof call of the year today.

I never cleaned a cedar roof before. Come to think of it, I’ve never seen one. All of a sudden I’m seeing copper everywhere lol

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