Gloucestershire Roof Cleaning cleans roofs in Pershore: a low-pressure clean or a manual moss scrape, finished with a biocide treatment. Most roof cleans are £550–£950, including a free gutter clear and a 2-year moss-free guarantee.
Free gutter clearance and free biocide on every Pershore roof clean. Listed Georgian and conservation-area properties handled correctly.
Pershore is on the flat floor of the Avon valley, where the river curves past the town on its way down to Tewkesbury and the Severn. The Old Bridge, the abbey and the long Georgian street make it one of the best-looking towns in Worcestershire, but the low, damp setting is hard on roofs. The Bridge Street and Wick side of town floods often enough to have its own Environment Agency flood-warning area, and the air on the valley floor stays moist even in summer. That moisture feeds moss, lichen and gloeocapsa algae, so Pershore roofs usually grow more than the same houses would on higher ground towards Bredon Hill.
The town centre has its own reasons. In 1964 the Council for British Archaeology named Pershore one of only 51 Gem Towns, largely for the long curve of Bridge Street, Broad Street and the High Street. Those tall Georgian houses stand side by side, throw each other and the yards behind into shade for much of the day, and many still have Welsh slate or hand-made clay that stays wet far longer than modern tile. A roof that looks black from the street is normally a deep layer of moss in the slate laps, often with rust marks running from old lead and valley metal.
Then there's the fruit. Pershore is plum country: the Pershore Yellow Egg, Purple Pershore and Pershore Emblem plums all came from here, and the town still holds a plum festival each August. Plenty of gardens have fruit trees close to the house. Fallen leaves and the constant drip keep the roofs under them damp, so the north-facing, tree-shaded pitch is usually the first in Pershore to go green.
Away from the centre, the housing on Allesborough Hill and around Three Springs Road is mostly post-war and modern concrete interlocking tile. Spores catch on its rough face and the valley damp lets them spread, so we take the bulk of the moss off by hand from a tower or roof ladder and then apply biocide.
We don't pressure-blast roofs in Pershore. On ageing concrete tile the protective surface is already thin, and on the conservation area's Welsh slate and clay, high pressure cracks and strips the surface. Either way you'd get one clean season and a shorter-lived roof. Lifting the moss by hand and treating with biocide is gentler and lasts much longer.
Different covering, different method.
The typical roof on Bridge Street, Broad Street and the High Street, where most of the tall houses are Georgian and many are slated. Slate wears well but won't stand rough treatment, so we clear the laps by hand, clean at low pressure and finish with a neutral biocide, keeping it off lime mortar and lead. A pressure lance never goes near it.
On older cottages, the back streets behind the main frontages and the WR10 villages at Wick, Pensham and Birlingham. Much of it is over a century old and fragile when wet, so it's cleared by hand from a roof ladder over the ridge, with no pressure, going carefully round the bedded ridges, hips and valleys.
Most of the post-war roads around the old town are Marley or Redland concrete tile. The rough surface traps spores and the valley keeps them damp, so moss is often thick. We take it off by hand and then apply biocide; expect the colour to keep improving for a few weeks.
The newer Pershore estates and the larger homes out towards Pinvin and the edge of town: smoother concrete, with some plain tile and pantile. Young roofs, but they green up here too, particularly where they back onto orchard. Moss off, then biocide on to slow regrowth.
The Gem Town centre, the estates climbing the valley side and the WR10 villages round about. One valley, several kinds of roof.
The Georgian heart of Pershore — the long run of listed frontages along Bridge Street, Broad Street and the High Street, tall and shaded, on original Welsh slate and clay tile that gets manual moss removal and a low-pressure clean only, never pressure.
One of the oldest streets in town, running back from the High Street with buildings spanning the 16th to 19th centuries — a mix of period clay and slate that needs the careful conservation-area approach we take in the core.
The post-war and later housing rising on the higher ground to the edge of town — mostly concrete interlocking tile, and almost all carrying heavy moss by now because the valley keeps the air damp even up the slope.
Settled residential streets on the south and east of the town, near the Defford Road flood zone — mid-century concrete-tile homes that mat up fast in the low, wet ground and respond well to moss lifted by hand and a biocide.
The riverside villages just across the Avon, sharing the same flood-warning zone as Bridge Street — a mix of period cottages and newer homes, often tree-shaded and damp, where the heavier growth comes off by hand.
The WR10 villages ringing Pershore, between our Evesham, Worcester and Tewkesbury areas — country roofs of clay and slate, plus newer estate homes, all greening in this damp pocket of the valley.
When the Council for British Archaeology picked Pershore as one of its 51 Gem Towns in 1964, it was naming a town worth special care, and the large conservation area follows the Georgian street from the abbey at one end to the medieval Old Bridge over the Avon at the other, brick and stucco fronts all the way. Many of those roofs are original Welsh slate or hand-made clay on period buildings, nothing like a 1980s roof up Allesborough Hill. We use manual moss removal and a low-pressure clean on them, never high pressure, which would crack slate and tile and let water into buildings that have stayed sound for two hundred years or more.
Listed-building consent isn't normally needed simply to remove moss and algae, since the building itself isn't changed. If the work would affect mortar, lead or the original tile fixings, it usually is, and we'll raise that before you book so you can talk to Wychavon District Council's conservation team. We sheet and rinse to keep biocide off lime mortar, and where old lead has weathered to a soft grey we'd normally advise leaving it rather than scrubbing it back to shiny metal, which is what conservation officers would expect.
The look of the town comes from its history. Pershore grew up around an abbey founded in the seventh century, with wool and farming paying for the streets. Most of the houses you see now are eighteenth-century or later: the Georgians refaced the street in brick and stone but kept the medieval plots behind, which is why Perrot House and its neighbours look so uniform from the front. Behind those fronts, buildings of different dates lean together, roofs share valleys, and one house can be slated while the next is clay. None of it is hard to clean, but it's why every roof gets surveyed before we price it.
We look your address up on the Historic England map before the survey, so if the house is listed you'll know where you stand before we arrive.
We look over the roof, the gutters and the access, then give you a written quote. No sales pitch and no need to decide on the spot. For Georgian and conservation-area houses, anything that touches listed-building rules is raised at this point.
Welsh slate and old clay on the Georgian street get a manual dry moss scrape. Sound concrete tile on the estates can have a low-pressure clean where it suits. We clear the gutters at the same time, and the moss has to come off before biocide can reach the spores.
An approved biocide goes on at the right dilution, killing algae, lichen and the remaining spores without high-pressure water on the roof. That matters in a damp valley where moss returns quickly.
Guaranteed against moss, algae and lichen for two years. If regrowth appears in that time, we return and re-treat it at no charge. Written into every quote.
A Pershore roof clean has us on ladders or a tower for most of the day, so we clear the gutters while we're there. The biocide is what keeps the roof clean for two years. Both are included at no charge.
Gutters matter in Pershore. With streets at the Bridge Street and Wick end inside the flood-warning area, and leaves dropping from the plum trees every autumn, a gutter blocked with moss and leaf litter soon sends rain over the edge, down the wall and into the eaves. We clear what comes off the roof as we work, so the gutters are running freely when we leave. And because the biocide keeps working, most customers here go two seasons or more before the roof needs anything else.
Get my Pershore quoteA roof clean in Pershore usually costs £550–£950, with the moss removal, biocide and a free gutter clear included. Larger, steeper or awkward roofs cost more. Roofs here run from fragile Welsh slate on listed Georgian houses to big modern roofs up Allesborough Hill, and the delicate ones need careful manual removal and a low-pressure clean rather than speed, so we don't give a flat price over the phone. Most semis and terraces sit inside the range; very heavy moss, difficult access or a large detached house takes it higher.
What decides the price:
Always part of the job: a gutter clear while we're on the roof, and biocide to keep moss off for two years. Need the gutters only? Gutter cleaning on its own starts from £90.
Quoting: a free survey, no obligation, a written price the same day and no deposit; you pay once it's done. Read the roof cleaning cost guide → You may also want: is roof cleaning safe?, why clean your roof?, removing roof moss for good and the best time of year to clean a roof.
No, provided the method suits the roof. The Welsh slate and old clay on the Georgian houses of Bridge Street, Broad Street and Newlands get manual moss removal and a low-pressure clean, then biocide; a pressure washer would crack them and strip the surface. Concrete interlocking tile on Allesborough Hill, Three Springs and the newer estates is tougher, but we still take the moss off by hand first instead of blasting it. The biocide is what keeps the moss from coming back.
Two years, guaranteed. The biocide we apply keeps killing fresh spores after we've left site, and if regrowth appears within two years we come back and re-treat it at no charge. Pershore sits low in the Avon valley, and the moist air means roofs re-green sooner than on higher ground towards the Cotswold edge. North-facing slopes in the older streets and roofs under fruit trees usually show it first. A pressure wash alone lasts about a season, since the spores stay in the tile.
Yes, if it's applied properly. We use approved biocides at the manufacturer's dilution, only in dry weather, so it bonds to the roof rather than running off. Pets stay indoors during spraying and for an hour after, and we cover and water borders, and the fruit trees many Pershore gardens have, before and after. With gardens running down to the Avon meadows, we take care over run-off.
Yes, and we take the most care with these. Pershore was named one of 51 Gem Towns by the Council for British Archaeology in 1964, and Bridge Street, Broad Street and the High Street are lined with listed Georgian houses, many roofed in old Welsh slate or hand-made clay. On those we use manual moss removal and a low-pressure clean only, never high pressure, and keep biocide off lime mortar and lead by sheeting and rinsing the edges. Moss removal on its own doesn't usually need listed-building consent; work on mortar, lead or fixings does, and we'll tell you first so you can speak to Wychavon District Council's conservation team.
Yes. Pershore is low on the River Avon, and the Bridge Street and Wick areas flood often enough to have their own Environment Agency flood-warning area. Even in dry years the wet valley floor keeps humidity high, which is what moss, lichen and algae need, so roofs here usually carry more growth than those on higher ground. We clean the same way, but the biocide matters more: without it, regrowth in the valley is quick.
Yes, quite a lot. Trees shade the roof, drip on it after rain and drop leaves into the gutters, so a roof under a plum or apple tree stays damp for longer and usually greens up first. We clear the leaf litter along with the moss and the gutters, and the biocide goes on as normal. If branches are touching the roof, having them cut back before the clean helps the result last, and we'll point that out at the survey.
Mostly, no. We work from ladders or a scaffold tower using a long-reach lance, so there's no weight on the slates and no marks on the ridge. For steep or old roofs, like the tall Georgian houses in the centre or brittle clay and slate in the conservation area, we use a roof ladder hooked over the ridge to spread the load. We'll explain which method we're using, and why, before we begin.
Three reasons. It protects the roof: moss holds water on the surface, frost then does more damage, and old Welsh slate or hand-made clay in the conservation area is expensive to replace. It keeps the gutters clear: shed moss blocks gutters and downpipes so water runs down the wall, not something a town by the Avon needs. It helps with insurance and sale: some insurers ask about mossy roofs, and buyers of Georgian houses in the Gem Town notice the roof. A clean costs a fraction of re-roofing or repointing ridges.
Spring (March to May) and early autumn work best. It's dry enough for the biocide to bond, and the roof is treated before the damp months when moss grows fastest, which in this low valley means most of the winter. We do clean all year, though, because the biocide works whenever it goes on in dry weather.
No. High-pressure jet washing wears the face off, breaks tiles and pushes water up under the roof. Old clay, stone and Welsh slate on the town-centre, Georgian and listed houses get manual moss removal and a low-pressure clean, then biocide. Concrete interlocking tile on the Pershore estates can take a controlled low-pressure clean where it's the right tool. We always explain the method first.
Most Pershore roof cleans cost £550–£950, with the moss removal, the biocide treatment and a free gutter clear included. A typical semi or bungalow on Allesborough Hill or around Three Springs Road sits within that range. A tall Georgian house on Bridge Street or Broad Street, a roof under heavy tree cover or a large detached house can cost more. We give a written price after a free survey, and there's no deposit.
Yes. Gutter cleaning on its own starts from £90, and most two-storey houses in Pershore come in under £150. It's free with a roof clean. Fruit trees are the main cause of blocked gutters here: plum and apple leaves drop every autumn and pack the troughs, so we clear them by hand, take the leaf litter away and check the downpipes are running freely.
Yes — Gloucestershire Roof Cleaning carries £5m public liability insurance.
We had excellent service from start to finish. The guys were very professional, discussed everything over the phone initially then a visit with the drone to allow accurate quarter and expectation management. On the day they were considerate with the neighbours, did a wonderful job with the roof and gutters and cleared up so well that everything looked far better than when they started. Cannot recommend more highly.
We had excellent service from start to finish. The guys were very professional, discussed everything over the phone initially then a visit with the drone to allow accurate quarter and expectation management. On the day they were considerate with the neighbours, did a wonderful job with the roof and gutters and cleared up so well that everything looked far better than when they started. Cannot recommend more highly.
Really impressed with Aquapro Roof cleaning. Very professional guys that done such a good job, that it looks like I’ve had a new roof installed, (after 40yrs of dirt and moss). Blake talked me through everything in detail, and answered any questions I had. Showed me the end result with his drone footage and left house clean and tidy. Highly recommended.
Really impressed with Aquapro Roof cleaning. Very professional guys that done such a good job, that it looks like I’ve had a new roof installed, (after 40yrs of dirt and moss). Blake talked me through everything in detail, and answered any questions I had. Showed me the end result with his drone footage and left house clean and tidy. Highly recommended.
100% recommend this team . From start to finish was kept informed.On the morning a text to say what time they will be there and arrived on time . Worked from 9:30 till 7:30pm on the roof and jet washing all the area after. Very professional and had all the kit even a drone to show you the results of the whole area . The difference is amazing and looks like a new roof . Really happy with the results and so many comments from neighbours too saying how good it looks . You will not be disappointed .
100% recommend this team . From start to finish was kept informed.On the morning a text to say what time they will be there and arrived on time . Worked from 9:30 till 7:30pm on the roof and jet washing all the area after. Very professional and had all the kit even a drone to show you the results of the whole area . The difference is amazing and looks like a new roof . Really happy with the results and so many comments from neighbours too saying how good it looks . You will not be disappointed .
The Guys did a fantastic job on my roof and worked nonstop all day to get the job done and left everything clean and tidy after themselves, highly recommend and would look to use again 👍, made a massive difference to the house.
The Guys did a fantastic job on my roof and worked nonstop all day to get the job done and left everything clean and tidy after themselves, highly recommend and would look to use again 👍, made a massive difference to the house.
Would strongly recommend. Swift with good work quality and kept the surrounding areas tidy. Looks like a new roof! Would 100% recommend.
Would strongly recommend. Swift with good work quality and kept the surrounding areas tidy. Looks like a new roof! Would 100% recommend.
What can I say other than WOW !! Massive thank you to Blake and Dan for all of your hard work, so professional and such an amazing job! Left everything spotless so pleased, highly recommend to everyone. Extremely happy
What can I say other than WOW !! Massive thank you to Blake and Dan for all of your hard work, so professional and such an amazing job! Left everything spotless so pleased, highly recommend to everyone. Extremely happy
Ask for a free survey and you'll have a written price the same day. Gutter clearing and biocide are included with every roof clean, Georgian and listed roofs are cleaned by hand at low pressure, and we're fully insured.
