Conservatories can make a great addition to your home, but they require a fair bit of determination to keep them clean. Here at Clearsky I know that cleaning your entire conservatory is no easy task, so I’ve provided some conservatory cleaning tips to help make the job more manageable.
These glass rooms on my houses are designed to make the most of the sun I get in the UK, heating up easily and retaining that heat so that I can have the summer feel all year round.
But when it’s hot, it’s hot in there.
However, with the lack of rain comes another problem. Dust.
There’s dust everywhere, and it’ll stick to the glass of your conservatory, meaning when you do want to use it, whenever this summer heat relents, it’ll look particularly dirty.
So, now’s a good time to clean it, but you need to be careful.
The dangers of cleaning the roof
Don’t climb on the roof!
The roof of your conservatory is unlikely to be “load-bearing”, that is, they are safe enough for their own weight, indeed, they’ll be designed with safety in mind, but you can’t stand on them.
If you try to, or even try to crawl across them, you run the risk of falling through.
Of course, if you don’t fall through, there’s another danger with wet glass, slipping off:
Darwin award here I come…
Nope, if you want to clean your conservatory roof, you need to use some fairly expensive equipment, usually a telescopic brush and a ladder, but again, be careful where you lean the ladder and make sure it’s positioned safely.
The ideal way to clean it is with clean deionised water (like I use), however other soapy solutions are OK as long as you clean them off with clean water or a jetwash.
Traditional soapy window cleaning liquids can leave streaks, which could make it look a lot worse than it does now.
Also, remember to close all your windows and vents, else you’ll spray everyone relaxing inside!
Don’t forget the gutters
You probably don’t need to clean your gutters that often, probably once or twice a year, but this really depends on the general maintenance of your house roof and if there are any trees or large plants around.
In one case, an old roof had lots of moss on it that was constantly falling into the guttering all around the house, including the conservatory. This meant it had to be cleaned regularly.
The easiest way is to use a ladder and some rubber gloves to simply wipe the gutters clean.
Sound a bit like hard work?
Of course, the easiest, and sometimes cheaper option is to get someone to do it!
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More on conservatory cleaning
Can I clean a conservatory roof myself?
You can clean the glass from the ground with a pole. What you should not do is get on the roof. Conservatory roofs are not built to carry a person, the frames flex, and a foot through a panel is both expensive and dangerous. Everything I do on a conservatory is done from the ground.
How often does a conservatory need cleaning?
Once or twice a year for most. The roof gets dirty faster than the sides because nothing washes it properly — rain runs off at an angle and leaves a film behind, and in shaded corners that film turns green. The finials and the gutters around it fill up quietly at the same time.
What does conservatory cleaning cost in Airdrie?
From £30, with the price agreed before I start. That covers the roof, the frames and the finials rather than just the glass you can see from inside. If the small gutters around the conservatory need clearing too, I will say so before I begin.
This is not me being precious about it. Falls from height remain one of the biggest causes of workplace death and serious injury in Britain, which is why the Health and Safety Executive treats any work at height as something to be planned and properly equipped rather than improvised (HSE, work at height). A conservatory roof is worse than most: it is not designed to carry a person at all.
Getting a conservatory quote
Send a photo and your postcode. Same-day response on quotes, usually within a few hours. Call or text 07440347383.