07725 314415Solar Panel Cleaning in Brixham
Keep your panels efficient with careful PV cleaning, roof-mounted or ground-mounted. We work all over Brixham and the surrounding Devon area — Berry Head, Brixham Harbour & Fish Quay, Higher Brixham and the towns between.
The Moore & Franks approach in Brixham
Brixham is a working fishing town, and there's no escaping the sea here — it's in the harbour, the air and on every roof above it. Solar panels in Brixham take the full force of salt spray off the bay, along with heavy gull activity from the busy quayside. That salt-and-droppings crust bakes onto the glass and steadily cuts your output. We're a family-run Devon firm and we clean it off properly: purified water through soft brushes, worked from the ground so we stay off your roof entirely. No harsh chemicals near your panels' warranty. The salt lifts away, the glass clears, and your array gets back to the generation figures the coast's sunshine should be giving you.
The steep older terraces stacked above the harbour carry slate and concrete tiles that grow black lichen and moss in the constant sea fret, and that growth lifts and loosens tiles over time. A roof like that is no place to be walking, least of all to reach a solar panel. We clean the glass entirely from the ground on poles, so no weight goes onto tiles already working loose, and pure water shifts the lichen film off the cells.
Out toward Churston Ferrers and Galmpton the plots open up to larger detached homes ringed by mature trees, and those shed leaf and needle litter that clogs gutters and drifts onto any panels below. On a bigger roof the shaded, debris-streaked glass loses a fair bit of output. We reach the whole array from firm ground, and if the gutters have silted up at the same time, we can clear them off the poles on the one visit.
Up at Higher Brixham and the exposed plots around St Mary's Bay and Berry Head, arrays sit open to the full weather coming off the Channel, so the salt haze rebuilds on them faster than most. That means upkeep matters more here than inland, and an annual clean is usually the right call to hold the generation steady. Being toward our southern edge, we still cover the whole TQ5 patch as a matter of course.
Our Brixham customers are typically within 45 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ5 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Berry Head, Brixham Harbour & Fish Quay, Higher Brixham, St Mary's Bay, Churston Ferrers, Galmpton).
A clear, repeatable process.
No surprises, no upsells. The same method every job — that's how you get the same result every time.
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Assess the array
We check whether your panels are roof- or ground-mounted and the level of dirt or growth present.
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Gentle PV clean
We clean each panel with care to lift dirt, algae, moss and lichen without harming the surface.
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Restore efficiency
With the panels clear, more light reaches the cells, helping restore their energy efficiency.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions we get asked the most. If yours isn't here, drop us a line — we reply same day.
Each panel is £7 + VAT, set out in a free written quote. Out on the exposed headland, Brixham arrays often carry a heavier salt-and-lichen film, so the first clean can take longer, but the rate per panel does not change for it.
The whole TQ5 area, from the harbour and Fish Quay up through Higher Brixham to St Mary's Bay and Berry Head, and out to Churston Ferrers and Galmpton. Wherever your array sits in town or on the fringes, it is within our round.
Yes, and it is the safest option for them. Because we reach the panels from the ground, no weight ever goes onto slate or concrete tiles that lichen has loosened, and pure water with a soft head lifts the salt film off the glass with no scraping.
Send us a message or ring the office for a free, no-obligation quote, and we will respond the same day. There are just two of us, father and son, out on weekdays, and although Brixham is toward our southern edge, a coastal array here is straightforward to book.
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Send a couple of photos or book a site visit — fixed price in writing before any work starts.