[hank jr]

Hi all, for those of you who know what the Marshall Pro is.....do you know if the seller is trustworthy? I've read a few stories about people not getting what they have purchased and the seller does not respond to emails/messages?

I messaged the seller on Facebook messenger and asked if he has a website ( and he sent me a link very quickly). I then asked were is he based.....had no response (and he had read my message). 7 hours later I asked how long does delivery take......no response??
Surely anyone selling their goods would answer these simple questions?

[TomCrowther]

I bought it no problem.  Arrived in 48 hours.

[hank jr]

Ah - good news! Do you think its a good tool?

[poles apart]

Who sells them?

[TomCrowther]

Missed your reply. Yes, it's very useful and quickly removes the moss. I use the push/pull type action rather than just scraping down.  Wouldn't be without it now.

[hank jr]

Missed your reply. Yes, it's very useful and quickly removes the moss. I use the push/pull type action rather than just scraping down.  Wouldn't be without it now.

Great news! Do you get many jobs?

[TomCrowther]

I'm in the process of redoing the website and plan to push the roof/render side through next year. I have only done a handful of roof jobs so far. Scrape then algoclear pro softwash. All come up really clean and happy customers.

[Smudger]

How long does it take to scape a roof ?

Darran

[TomCrowther]

You know the answer better than I Darran
Did a very mossy three bed semi last week and I as there at 09:00 and finished at 16:00. That's scraping for maybe 5 hours then spraying and packing up.
I know pressure washing is faster and gives instant results but I have a mental block {damaging the tiles etc} and worry about the safety aspect and also this last job was typical. Tired tiles, ridge tiles all needed re-setting and I didn't want to break any.

[Smudger]

you did both aspects of the roof scraping ?

that's impressive you must have arms like Popeye 


As a side note - never damaged a tile by pressure washing  - modern tiles are nearly 3/4" thick  so a bit of water on them isn't really going to hurt - slate - clay and pin tiles just use lower pressure


Darran

[TomCrowther]

Three aspects Darran, one was not too bad. Arms are pretty strong after 35 years of weights but trying to avoid the return of tendinitis!
When pressure washing a roof do you generally use a lift/platform or a scaffold? And how do you avoid covering the entire neighbourhood in crap?

[Smudger]

Nearly always a cherry picker - certainly houses

easy, the crap never flies that far

Fair play if you can do 3 aspects in that time then no need to P/W as long as you do give the roof a really good dose of biocide

Darran

[TomCrowther]

It is knackering though. Would struggle to do it on consecutive days in fact I know I would struggle. Always trying to work a little smarter which is difficult with my brain.

[hank jr]

It is knackering though. Would struggle to do it on consecutive days in fact I know I would struggle. Always trying to work a little smarter which is difficult with my brain.

I've stored this snippet of wisdom in my roof cleaning knowledge bank.  Sounds good for extra £££ but doing it every day? sounds like very hard work!

[BrandonAntony]

I’m in the roof cleaning page on Facebook and they are making some very good looking roof scrapers https://roofscraper.co.uk/ I messaged the page and they replied to me in a few minutes so looks promising they got different grade of steel wire brushes too

[Smudger]

hmmmm...  the uk's No1 roof scraping  tool - release date yet to be confirmed 

Darran

[Slacky]

hmmmm...  the uk's No1 roof scraping  tool - release date yet to be confirmed 

Darran

Ha ha