Roof washing in Estero.

Estero's communities put water and turf right up against the houses — the lakes through Miromar Lakes and Corkscrew Shores, golf frontage in Grandezza and Shadow Wood at The Brooks, preserve edges backing many of the streets. That raises the local humidity and keeps roof surfaces damp between rains, and on the barrel and flat tile these homes are built with, the north slopes darken on a schedule you could almost set a calendar to.

Our roof washing clears it with low-pressure soft washing: solution that kills the algae at the root, a gentle rinse, and no one walking the tile. In communities with appearance standards, the even result matters as much as the clean one, and a wand-cleaned roof comes back visibly striped where a soft-washed roof does not.

Runoff is managed against the turf and buffer planting these communities maintain to a standard — pre-wet, dilute, rinse down. Where the tall stucco elevations below have gone the same way, soft washing handles them on the same visit. More on the area in Estero.