Solar Panel Cleaning in Ottery St Mary

The Moore & Franks approach in Ottery St Mary

Solar panels get dirty fast in Ottery St Mary, where working farmland rings a town set inland in the Otter valley. Tractor dust, crop spray drift, pollen and a heavy dose of bird mess all settle on south-facing roofs across the town and out toward West Hill. The damp valley air then sets it into a stubborn film. We're a Devon family business and we clean panels the careful way: purified water through soft brushes, worked from the ground with reach poles so we never touch your roof. No chemicals that could affect your warranty. The farmland grime lifts off and your panels go back to full output.

The old stone and cob cottages around The Square and Silver Street were never built with solar in mind, so their retrofitted arrays sit on steep, uneven roofs that take unkindly to foot traffic. Panels on that kind of roof are best reached from the ground, and that is exactly how we work, running pure water up a pole so nothing rests on soft historic slate. The glass comes up clear with the roof untouched.

Morning mist hangs over the water meadows below St Mary's Church long after the sun is up, and that lingering damp is a gift to algae on any panel nearby. The valley floor simply does not dry the way higher ground does, so growth that would shrug off in a breeze instead settles in and thickens. Clearing it with pure water gives the cells a clean surface, though in a spot this damp an annual freshen-up is worth pencilling in.

Out on the higher ground toward West Hill and Tipton St John, the newer render estates catch wind-driven rain that drives field grime across the panels rather than rinsing them. Many of those arrays went up with the houses and have not been touched since. A first clean there often shows up plainly on the generation readout, and being an easy run from Topsham we can get to the outlying homes as readily as the town itself.

Our Ottery St Mary customers are typically within 20 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX11, EX10, EX5 postcode area and the surrounding villages (St Mary's Church and the Tumbling Weir, The Square and Silver Street, Cadhay Manor, West Hill, Tipton St John, Newton Poppleford).