Chlorine terminating termite warranty?

Patrick Gilboy

Patrick Gilboy

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Hey guys, how bout some feed from this back statement?

Some contractors and home owners do use chlorine bleach as a cheap roof cleaner, but it is not advisable. Chlorine will also kill your plants, and is harmful to the environment and is not a effective reviver. In some cases, the chlorine runoff from the roof can void your termite warranty due to the interaction with the chemicals in the ground guarding your home. Its too risky to spray and forget the termite protection. In short, using chlorine bleach is not worth the risk when there are other much safer and less costly alternatives.
 
Sounds like a load of crap to me

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Before you start believing everything you hear or read, especially from salespeople, did you ask for documentation so you can see some actual proof of the warranty and if it states that bleach will void the warranty?

Like they say, Money Talks and Bull Shi* Walks.

People will say just about anything to make a sale or protect their territory or mislead you (sometimes for fun or to get rid of you).
 
buckeyepw said:
Hey guys, how bout some feed from this back statement?

Some contractors and home owners do use chlorine bleach as a cheap roof cleaner, but it is not advisable. Chlorine will also kill your plants, and is harmful to the environment and is not a effective reviver. In some cases, the chlorine runoff from the roof can void your termite warranty due to the interaction with the chemicals in the ground guarding your home. Its too risky to spray and forget the termite protection. In short, using chlorine bleach is not worth the risk when there are other much safer and less costly alternatives.
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Patric,
The reality my friend, chlorine is one of the greenest, safest and best products to use in treating roofs used correctly. If a contractor doesnt use chlorine in his roof mixture they most likely are not educated enough yet to use it as a cleaner for roofs and thats ok, there are plenty of round tables around the country to teach you the proper way to do this. Chlorine is manufactured from salt water. Chlorine starts as salt water and ends its life as salt water.
 
Notice it says, "In some cases the chlorine run off can void your termite warranty" The term "In some cases" followed by "can" is a pretty open statement that allows the writer of that statement to be very vague and is pretty much just a way of scaring someone without having to be factual.

Gasoline is very dangerous also, but when used, handled, and dispensed correctly it is very safe and useful.

I would question who that statement is coming from? Is it coming from a Pest Control Company or a Roof Cleaning Company that does not use Manufacture Cleaning Methods or Solutions?
 
innovativewash said:
Patric,
The reality my friend, chlorine is one of the greenest, safest and best products to use in treating roofs used correctly. If a contractor doesnt use chlorine in his roof mixture they most likely are not educated enough yet to use it as a cleaner for roofs and thats ok, there are plenty of round tables around the country to teach you the proper way to do this. Chlorine is manufactured from salt water. Chlorine starts as salt water and ends its life as salt water.
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I am with you on this.
 
I think it would mess with the old way they would treat for termites. The new chemicles are not affected by chlorine.
 
buckeyepw said:
Hey guys, how bout some feed from this back statement?

Some contractors and home owners do use chlorine bleach as a cheap roof cleaner, but it is not advisable. Chlorine will also kill your plants, and is harmful to the environment and is not a effective reviver. In some cases, the chlorine runoff from the roof can void your termite warranty due to the interaction with the chemicals in the ground guarding your home. Its too risky to spray and forget the termite protection. In short, using chlorine bleach is not worth the risk when there are other much safer and less costly alternatives.
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Whats he trying to say here?

First he is saying Chlorine is a cheap cleaner, but then says there are better, cheaper alternatives.
 
buckeyepw said:
Hey guys, how bout some feed from this back statement?

Some contractors and home owners do use chlorine bleach as a cheap roof cleaner, but it is not advisable. Chlorine will also kill your plants, and is harmful to the environment and is not a effective reviver. In some cases, the chlorine runoff from the roof can void your termite warranty due to the interaction with the chemicals in the ground guarding your home. Its too risky to spray and forget the termite protection. In short, using chlorine bleach is not worth the risk when there are other much safer and less costly alternatives.
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Put the Kool-Aid down ... and educate yourself before spewing regurgitated BS. I checked out your site and it does not include roof cleaning, but if you do, please tell us what your "safer and less costly alternative" is. (please do not let his answer be a surface cleaner)

Ahhhhh what the heck...let me do the research for you since I don't want this to turn into a 10 page pissing match. :thumbup2:

Below is a "Technical Bulletin" from ARMA (Asphalt Roofing Manufaturers Association) and GAF. Both companies have, pretty much, word for word the same report. These two companies are the largest asphalt shingle manufactures in the United States and their bulletin contradicts what you have heard, read and posted. Please do not miss the "Caution!" at the bottom of the document.

Read This -----> ARMA Technical Bulletin


Also,

1.) I have searched the internet up and down and for the life of me, can not find any documentation about a voided termite warranty due to SH. Could you please post it here for me?

2.) As for your comment about killing plants. If you use the only method approved by ARMA and GAF to clean shingles and end up killing plants ... you should not be cleaning roofs. We pre-soak all plants, shrubs including grass under the drip-line, we have a ground guy thay keeps all vegetation watered down while we are working and at the end of the job, we give all the vegetation a final rinse before we leave. Hacker, fly-by-nights kill plants ... responsible, professional companies that know what they are doing do not.
 
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I had read that somewhere before. There is no better way than chlorine. Chlorine is not cheap! It is very distinctive and difficult to market under private label. It is not efficient to ship. People want to make money selling roof cleaners, so they come up with stuff like that. There is little or no risk of getting termites as a result of having your roof cleaned properly. People who do not understand will spread things like that.
 
And do anyone think that the termite company is going to come by and take a soil sample , have it anylized and then void the warranty on termite protection? And by the time they go thru all that will there be any chlorine left in the ground to detect ?
 
I believe the original statement is from a roof shampoo site. I remember reading something like that there. Thier whole sales pitch is how bad chlorine is and how good sodium peroxide/hydroxide along with some light/heavy pressure washing is. What a joke.
 
Again, unless you have some documented proof from a reliable, unbiased source about bleach affecting a termite control warranty, I would not go spreading these lies like little old ladies gossiping about things they have no clue about.

Sooner or later people will get smarter and smarter and also ask for some documented proof so they will know if you are telling the truth or full of Shi*.
 
Chris,
that statemaent is written on thier site. I in no way believe anything thats written on thier site. When a potential customer goes on thier website and reads thier bull and then goes on one of our websites and reads that chlorine is safe the customer gets confused and has a hard time believing either side until they meet with a professional roof cleaner.

So your calling roof shampoo companies old ladies- that is some funny stuff.
 
Christopher said:
Again, unless you have some documented proof from a reliable, unbiased source about bleach affecting a termite control warranty, I would not go spreading these lies like little old ladies gossiping about things they have no clue about.

Sooner or later people will get smarter and smarter and also ask for some documented proof so they will know if you are telling the truth or full of Shi*.
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Watch where you point that thing Chris, you might put someone's eye out or something.
 
I'm calling anyone who repeats that nonsense without proof a bunch of old, stinky, nasty old homeless ladies.

I would tell anyone to show me some proof or shut up, proof is facts, documents by an un-biased research facility, university, etc.....some place with credibility, not just what someone typed up for more sales hype for their crappy business.

Roof shampoo, roof hair dresser, roof color changer, roof comb-over, roof weave, roof jerrycurl, roof no-more-gray, roof I can't believe it is not butter, roof where's the beef or whoever. This nonsense needs to be stopped, it is lying to the customer, confusing them and probably trying to rip them off instead of being told the truth.
 
You should see the signs all over our town saying "No bleach roof stain removal" And I have to re-educate the customer after they question me about that. I have some pictures I took of a roof after a Roof Shampoo guy was finished with his roof. It had so many damage stripes going down from the machine they use it was sick. I use these pics to show customers sometimes when they question about these Shampoo guys. And they say Chlorine is bad ha.
 
Nothing like pressure washing the granules that were never designed to be hit with any type of pressure whatsoever to dislodge the granules and weaken the shingles. Add to that chemicals that are not in the roofing materials association's guidelines for safe roof cleaning added to the mix of pressure and that is a good candidate for roof replacement a lot sooner than expected and chances are that cleaner will not be in business that long to go after with your insurance company or their legal team or your own attorney for damage to the roof.
 
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