Our skylight cleaning covers skylight domes, roof windows, conservatory roofs and glass gables, including the lichen and moss that builds up around the frame. If a room has gone dim and the skylight is green or grey around the edge, a clean brings the light back. Whether we can reach yours depends on the roof, so we check before you commit.
Skylights are easy to forget. You look up through them, not across, so they dim slowly and nobody notices the change until they are clean.
Why skylights get worse than windows
A wall window sheds water. A skylight dome sits flat or nearly flat, so rain pools around the frame instead of running off, and whatever was in that water stays behind when it dries.
A skylight also gets no wind-driven rain across its face the way a wall window does, so grime sits and builds.
Lichen and moss
That green and grey crust around the edge of a dome is lichen, and it starts where the water sits.
From the frame it creeps inwards across the surface. Caught early, it lifts off with a brush. Left for several years, it bonds to the acrylic or the glass, and removing it becomes slow, careful work.
It also holds moisture against the seal, so it is a maintenance problem as well as a light problem.
Glass, acrylic and the difference it makes
Most older domes are acrylic. Newer roof windows are usually glass.
It matters because acrylic hazes with age and sun, and that haze is in the plastic, not on it. Cleaning removes everything sitting on the surface and the room gets brighter. It cannot undo sun damage to the plastic itself.
If your dome is hazed rather than dirty, we will tell you, and you can decide whether replacing it is worth it.
Conservatories, gables and glazed pergolas
Sloped conservatory roofs, glass gables above a living room and glazed pergola panels are all angled glass that cannot be reached from inside and never gets rinsed properly from outside.
Getting to yours
Every roof is different, so we do not promise access before we know your roof. Some skylights can be reached from the ground or from inside. Those that need roof access are quoted case by case, and some we decline because the pitch or position is not safe. We will tell you which one you have before you commit to anything.
Call 0450 246 246, or request a callback and we will ring you.
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