Just wondering if anyone else has any experiences of this…
My tenant has been in touch because there is some moss on the roof of the house and he has to sweep the path to the front door every day because he has slipped on it a couple of times.
He sent some pics of the moss on the ground and of the roof, and i have been to look at the roof.
In my opinion it’s not that bad, not what i was expecting from his message and request for ‘a meeting’ to discuss. It’s certainly not at a point where i’d worry about the roof.
He would like it cleaned and treated to prevent further moss fall, i don’t want to pay the £1000+ for an issue that i don’t believe is really an issue. I think there is a little moss in patches because of the weather it gets and when it rains hard or the birds are up there it come down.
We cleared the gutters etc at the end of last year for him.
We replaced the front door and front window for him a couple of months ago £1200 (coloured at his request).
@£650 pcm rent we are spending more than earning currently. He is a good tenant, very particular and I’m not sure where we stand with this??
I’d be interested to hear anyone elses views or experiences
He is not a good tenant. You are running to his beck and call.
In the words of my solicitor
“You are not there to do what they want you to, but to fulfil your legal requirements”.
Gutter cleaning is your responsibility.
Why did you replace a door and window? Did it need to be done
You have put in coloured windows at his request!!!
That costs more money!!!
Next time tell him you are going to increase his rent to reflect his unnecessary demands.
We have moss on our own roof and we sweep it up. Tell him to sweep it up like a normal person. He is responsible for the address ( I assume not just the house)
Who goes out and cleans moss on the roof. That is the most ridiculous thing. Scaffolding would eat most of your rent every year.
I bet if you called the council they would not even ask for that.
If you want a legal answer call a solicitor and get 20 minutes free advice.
Thank you, the door was old and was due to be done so I’m happy with that. He said the window was draughty and we didn’t know how long it had be in so decided it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get that done at the same time. We didn’t have to get the door coloured but decided to go ahead as it only cost a little more.
I do feel that moss cleaning the roof is a step too far though !
We have moss from the roof too. Everyone does!
Just put it in writing to him to sweep it up each time he comes across it, in view of the fact he is claiming to have fallen.
Just bear in mind A_A’s point, we had tenants that liked to shout ‘jump’ at me on a regular basis. Although, hopefully it isn’t the case with yours!
It’s insidious behaviour which we took mistook for being good tenants, thinking if they were that particular then that was a good sign they were looking after the house well.
Not so, as they didn’t like it when I dared to point out damages and due to the final straw of behaviour that stank of entrapment, we had to ask them to leave - which they didn’t like either, threatening to stay put without paying rent etc.
we had some problems with moss too, after getting quotes from multiple companies for literally thousands of pounds we decided to just buy the roof scraping tools ourselves from https://roofscraper.co.uk/ this allowed us to save massively as we can now just scrape moss off as needed and not have to contract it out as it is a very expensive service. one thing I will say is you need to apply a chemical application after scraping the moss off and that will prevent the moss from growing back for up to 5 years
Not a chance. It will cost over £500 just to scrape and just keeps returning. I have it. It will seed from neighbours roofs. They can sweep the path or sod off.
I had my sprayed with Wet and Forget because the moss was starting to cause problems with the gutters. It’s done wonders - it kills all the moss and then the roof gradually wears clean.
I mean I’m not sure why you’d want your property to fall into disrepair, or cause somebody to fall over. I got mine cleaned when I was asked to, I think it’s very helpful for your tenant to have highlighted this.
Mine got in touch as it was ruining their garden furniture falling off and making it grubby, I don’t think it’s reasonable to have somebody clear up muck after every rainfall, I wouldn’t do that myself I would get it cleaned.
The way I see it is they’re buying me a property with their rent, the least I can do is maintain it.
Some designs of roof tiles make it ideal for moss to grow easily, specifically rough tiles. I once lived in an area where all roofs in the area had moss. Any attempts to clean would be short lived due to constant reseeding, totally unrelated to falling into “disrepair”
If it were your garden furniture, or you falling- Im sure you’d fix it. So I wouldn’t expect my tenants to live in conditions I wouldn’t, I believe that’s taking advantage. Seemingly that viewpoint is something missing in the market.
I and everyone else did accept it. We all accepted the minor inconvenience of sweeping up a bit of moss now and again. As I said the type of roof tiles used exaggerated the issue. Cleaning also carries risk of tile damage.
Falling on moss? Moss by you must be a lot different to moss by me! Is it like banana skins?
A damp cloth would remove any dirt from patio furniture. Hardly difficult. (For some people at least).