Solar Panel Cleaning in Totnes

The Moore & Franks approach in Totnes

Totnes has an independent streak and a strong green conscience, so it's no surprise solar panels are everywhere here — on the old town-centre buildings climbing the hill and the eco-minded homes out along the Dart. Sitting in a wooded river valley, the town gives panels a double dose of trouble: leaf debris and bird mess from the trees, plus the damp valley air that breeds algae across the glass. We're a Devon family business and we clean with purified water and soft brushing, all from the ground, no chemicals involved. For a town that cares about clean energy, we make sure your array actually delivers it — clear glass, full output, done responsibly.

The listed Georgian and Victorian buildings climbing Fore Street sit in a conservation area where anything aggressive is rightly frowned on. Solar arrays retrofitted onto their steep old roofs cannot be walked on, and the roofs themselves need treating with care. Cleaning panels from the ground with pure water sidesteps all of it: no ladders on soft slate, no pressure near historic fabric, just clear glass and a roof left exactly as it was.

Across the river in Bridgetown, the slate-roofed terraces face north and hold moss and algae under the shade of the valley oaks. On the steeper streets, blocked downpipes send water straight down rendered fronts, and washed-down muck ends up streaking any panels on the way. We clear the glass from firm ground, and where the gutters and downpipes are choked at the same time, those can be cleared off the poles while we are there.

For a town this keen on clean energy, it is worth knowing a fouled array can be quietly losing a real chunk of what it should generate. Checking your figures against a year or two back usually tells the story. A wash brings the output back, and in the damp Dart valley an annual clean tends to hold it, keeping the panels earning through the brighter months out toward Ashprington and Stoke Gabriel as well as in town.

Our Totnes customers are typically within 30 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ9 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Bridgetown, Follaton, Dartington, Berry Pomeroy, Ashprington, Stoke Gabriel).