Roof cleaning across Cronton
Moss comes off Cronton roofs by hand scraper and biocide, not by blasting, so the tiles keep their surface while the growth dies right down to the root.
Cronton is surrounded by working farmland, with the wooded rise of Pex Hill and its old sandstone quarry on the Widnes side and the reclaimed Cronton Colliery land, now planted with woodland and wetland, on the Whiston side. Damp Mersey basin air hangs over the fields, and the hedgerow-lined lanes keep many frontages in shade for a good part of the day, so surfaces stay wet long after the rain has passed. All that damp gives moss, algae and black spot an easy time, which is why we always treat growth with biocide rather than just knocking the tops off.