Solar Panel Cleaning in Tiverton

The Moore & Franks approach in Tiverton

Tiverton is home turf for us — our landline rings here — so we know its roofs well, from the old wool-town terraces near the Pannier Market to the newer estates spreading out toward Blundell's. Set in the Exe valley amid farmland, the town's panels collect a steady mix of agricultural dust, pollen and bird mess, and the damp valley air turns it to algae if it's left. We clean with purified water and soft brushes, all from the ground, no chemicals and no roof-walking. Being local, we're quick to get to you and we know exactly what the Mid Devon climate throws at an array. Clean glass, full output, no fuss.

Out toward Chettiscombe and Bolham, the old stone and cob farmhouses carry moss in every hollow of their roofs, and where that sits above a solar array it seeds the glass with growth below. A large farmhouse roof usually carries a fair few panels, so the loss when they green over is not trivial. We reach the lot from firm ground on poles, keeping off the uneven old roofs entirely and rinsing each panel clear with pure water.

In the packed rendered terraces of Westexe and Elmore, the roofs sit close together and often north-facing, holding damp long enough for algae to spread across any panels up there. Access can be tight in those streets, but a water-fed pole reaches the glass from the pavement without needing to get a ladder up between buildings. The porous old render around them stays clear of any splashing, and nobody has to set foot on a slate.

The trees along the Grand Western Canal and the Lowman shed heavily into gutters each autumn, and the run-off streaks muck down over panels below. The valley here dries slowly at the best of times, so a film creeps back onto clean glass sooner than most owners expect, and we generally suggest a yearly clean to stay ahead of it. If the gutters need clearing while we are set up, we can deal with those from the ground on the same trip.

Our Tiverton customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX16 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Tiverton town centre & Westexe, Grand Western Canal, Blundell's School, Bolham & Knightshayes, Chettiscombe, Elmore).