Solar Panel Cleaning in Exmouth

The Moore & Franks approach in Exmouth

Exmouth sits right on the estuary mouth, and that salt-laden air is no friend to a solar array. Spray drifts inland off the seafront, settles on south-facing roofs across Littleham and the Maer, and bakes on as a hazy crust that scatters sunlight before it ever reaches the cells. Bird droppings from the gulls don't help either. We're a Devon family firm and we clean panels properly: deionised water through soft brushes, no detergents, no roof-walking. The salt and grime lift away and your generation figures climb back to where they belong. Most Exmouth homeowners are surprised how much output a season of coastal muck had been costing them.

Roof pitch makes a real difference to how quickly solar panels foul, and Exmouth has plenty of the shallow, north-sloping roofs found on the 1930s semis through Littleham and Brixington. A low pitch means rain sheets across the glass rather than sluicing the dirt clean off, so grime and algae simply sit and build. We flood the panels with pure water and work a soft brush across every cell, so nothing is left to bake back on.

How often panels need doing here depends a lot on where you are. A seafront array up on The Beacon or along Queen's Drive picks the film back up faster than one tucked inland at Brixington, simply because it sits closer to the airborne salt off the estuary. We will tell you honestly at the quote whether yours is a yearly job or something you can leave a little longer between visits.

Getting to the glass safely is straightforward even on the taller Victorian terraces near the railway, where the roofs sit two and three storeys up. Our carbon-fibre poles reach the array from the pavement or garden below, so we never rest a ladder against fragile ridge tiles or the panel mounts. Ground-mounted arrays out on the larger Lympstone and Withycombe plots are, if anything, quicker still.

Our Exmouth customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX8 postcode area and the surrounding villages (The Beacon, Littleham, Withycombe Raleigh, Brixington, Exmouth Seafront & Marina, Lympstone).