Solar Panel Cleaning in Paignton

The Moore & Franks approach in Paignton

Paignton spreads from its sandy seafront back into the estates around Goodrington and Preston, and solar arrays have gone up across the lot. Being right on Tor Bay, those panels take a constant dose of salt spray, and the resident gull population adds plenty of mess on top. The result is a dulled array quietly losing you output through the sunniest months. We're a Devon family firm and we sort it without drama: purified water, gentle brush heads, every panel done from the ground with reach poles. No chemicals to streak the glass, no walking your roof. Clean panels, recovered generation, and a job done the safe and proper way.

Pebble-dashed gables on the 1930s and post-war semis through Preston and Goodrington hold damp readily, and in Paignton's humid, sheltered microclimate that feeds the green and black algae you see creeping across roofs. Where a solar array sits on one of those pitches, the same growth settles on the glass and quietly caps the output. We flood each panel with pure water and work a soft head over it, so the film lifts rather than baking back on.

The leafy inland roads behind Preston Sands trade salt exposure for heavy leaf fall instead, and the mature trees there drop steadily into gutters and shade the roofs below. Panels under that canopy stay damp and dirty longer than open ones, and washed-down debris streaks the glass. We clear it from the ground, and if the gutters overhead have silted up while we are set up with the poles, those can be dealt with on the same visit.

Modern estates out toward Blagdon and Clennon Valley are full of houses that came with panels fitted, and a good number have never had a proper clean since. It is tempting to trust the Tor Bay rain to do the job, but salt and sea fret leave a tacky residue that sunshine then sets hard onto the glass. A first wash on one of those arrays usually recovers output the owner had written off, and the work is quick and simple for us.

Our Paignton customers are typically within 35 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ3, TQ4 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Paignton Harbour, Preston Sands, Goodrington Sands, Roundham Head, Paignton Zoo, Clennon Valley).