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earthyvirgo

Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 7972
Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 11 9:31 pm Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

Stirling advice.

I'll bring mine down next week.

@WVG, make sure vegplot doesn't do it on full power, it'll lift the tarmac never mind clear the moss

I know, he's done it here!!

EV

welsh veg grower

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 2030
Location: here today but tomorrow...

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 11 10:39 am Post subject:

earthyvirgo wrote:

vegplot wrote:

Stirling advice.

I'll bring mine down next week.

@WVG, make sure vegplot doesn't do it on full power, it'll lift the tarmac never mind clear the moss

I know, he's done it here!!

EV

what part of holiday doesnt he get!

welsh veg grower

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 2030
Location: here today but tomorrow...

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 11 10:41 am Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

Stirling advice.

I'll bring mine down next week.

so, the plan is you need a break your trapped nerve has been palaying up and I offer a quiet weekend of food and drink and you decide to spend it blasting moss off my drive yeah an ideal rest I would think!!!

I can manage a power washer I even have one, trouble is the damn stuff just comes straight back and its slippy and I'm worried our guests will fly out of the B&B not ideal.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 11 1:41 pm Post subject:
I was planning on watching someone else do it. It will grow back again quite quickly though you need to find a way of delaying that. Perhaps you have to resign yourself to getting out the hoe every once in a while after you've done a blitz to get rid of most of it.

Shane

Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 3467
Location: Doha. Is hot.

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 11 3:42 am Post subject:

I've heard it said that fitting copper to the top of a roof kills moss. Not sure if it works, and I also heard that the copper can get into water courses in sufficient quantity to be hazardous to the environment. Not sure of the truth of either claim - it's one of those things I never got round to looking into in more detail (although it would possibly have been quicker than my six-monthly sweeping of our roof).

Might be worth looking into - I believe the idea would be that you could run a copper strip across the top of the drive, and the rain would wash enough copper down the drive to keep the moss at bay. As I said, I never looked into whether it actually works or not.

Castle Farm

Joined: 17 Sep 2008
Posts: 457
Location: Powys/Hereford Border.Near Hay-on-Wye

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 11 11:12 am Post subject:
Armillatox. It's brilliant stuff on moss and can be used to dissentfect dog runs out as it kills the worm eggs.

madcat

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1265
Location: worcester

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 11 1:58 pm Post subject:

jeyes fluid is poisenous to cats as far as I know,its banned from our place. Boris would not dream of getting/using anything that would harm the cats or the wildlife.
I have heard that Armillatox does for moss and as our drive is green in places and rather tatty tarmac I shall follow Castle Farm's advice and try it.I get problems with moss growing on the fenders on the boat so will try it for that job as well. The pressure wash cleans them up a bit but doesn't shift the lot,moss is very tenacious.

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 11 11:45 pm Post subject:
On the subject of pressure washers, Cheap Karchers here https://www.karcheroutlet.co.uk/products/subcat.asp?mID=Pressure-Washer&sID=Sale

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