Solar Panel Cleaning in Topsham

The Moore & Franks approach in Topsham

Topsham's mix of listed Dutch-gabled merchant houses and newer riverside builds means solar arrays here sit on every kind of roof imaginable. The estuary brings damp, still air that encourages a green algae bloom on panels left uncleaned, and the tree-lined streets shed plenty of leaf debris and bird mess onto the glass. We're based barely a mile up the road on Ferryman Way in Topsham, so this is right on our local patch. We clean with purified water and reach poles from the ground, which keeps us off fragile older roofs entirely. Your panels come back clear, your meter reads higher, and we've not laid a ladder against anything precious.

Listed buildings along The Strand and Fore Street come with obvious limits, and a solar array on top of one only adds to them. Old clay and slate roofs on the merchant houses cannot take foot traffic, and heritage owners rightly want no ladder marks on soft ridge tiles or leadwork. Cleaning the panels from the ground with a water-fed pole sidesteps all of that, keeping the roof untouched while the glass comes up clear.

It is not only green algae that settles on panels beside the tidal Exe. The still, moist air here also breeds the rust-red gloeocapsa stain and black spotting you see creeping across older roofs around the Quay and Bowling Green Marsh. On glass it forms a patchy, light-blocking crust rather than an even layer, so a proper wash needs to work every corner of each cell, not just flood the surface.

Panels on the newer riverside and Exeter Road builds foul quickly too, catching estuary grime on their silicone-rendered surroundings and shedding it onto the glass. With our own yard in the town, dropping in to clean an array here is the shortest call-out we do, and we can often clear the choked back gutters on the older terraces in the same visit while the poles are already out.

Our Topsham customers are typically within 10 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX3 postcode area and the surrounding villages (The Strand & the Quay, Goat Walk riverside path, Bowling Green Marsh, Fore Street, Darts Farm, Topsham Lock).