About the service
Dust, pollen, bird residue and hard-water spotting quietly rob a solar array of five to twenty five percent of its rated output long before any panel looks visibly dirty to the eye from the ground. I offer a full-service cleaning and light maintenance program for residential and small commercial installations, built around a deionized-water fed-pole wash system that leaves zero mineral spotting on the glass and needs no soap or detergent, so nothing runs off into gutters, gardens or ground cover.
Every visit starts with a baseline reading pulled from the inverter or monitoring portal (or a manual clamp-meter reading where no monitoring exists) so you have a documented before number, not a guess. Panels are then rinsed of loose debris, hand-brushed with a soft non-abrasive pad on a telescoping pole, and finished with a final deionized rinse that dries spot-free without wiping. Racking, mounting hardware and junction box seals are inspected while I am up there for corrosion, loose fasteners, or rodent damage around wiring, and I flag hot spots or micro-crack shadows I can see on the glass surface, though a full thermal-imaging diagnostic is a separate optional add-on and not part of the standard visit.
Safety is non-negotiable: I work with roof anchors, a full-body harness, and a rope grab system on pitched roofs, and I carry proof of insurance for every job. Ground-mount and low-slope commercial arrays are cleaned with an extended pole system from the ground wherever the layout allows, cutting time on the roof itself. After cleaning, a second inverter or portal reading is logged and compared to the baseline, and you receive a short written summary showing the measured output gain, any hardware notes, and photos of panel condition before and after.
Turnaround for a typical residential system of sixteen to thirty panels is same-day, usually two to four hours depending on roof pitch and access. Larger commercial arrays are quoted after a walk-through. Recurring quarterly or semi-annual service plans are available at a reduced rate and include a priority booking slot before pollen season and after major dust or wildfire-smoke events, which are the two conditions that cause the steepest sudden drop in output. I bring my own water tank and purification cartridges, so no hose bib access on your property is required, though it does speed up larger jobs when available.
Every visit starts with a baseline reading pulled from the inverter or monitoring portal (or a manual clamp-meter reading where no monitoring exists) so you have a documented before number, not a guess. Panels are then rinsed of loose debris, hand-brushed with a soft non-abrasive pad on a telescoping pole, and finished with a final deionized rinse that dries spot-free without wiping. Racking, mounting hardware and junction box seals are inspected while I am up there for corrosion, loose fasteners, or rodent damage around wiring, and I flag hot spots or micro-crack shadows I can see on the glass surface, though a full thermal-imaging diagnostic is a separate optional add-on and not part of the standard visit.
Safety is non-negotiable: I work with roof anchors, a full-body harness, and a rope grab system on pitched roofs, and I carry proof of insurance for every job. Ground-mount and low-slope commercial arrays are cleaned with an extended pole system from the ground wherever the layout allows, cutting time on the roof itself. After cleaning, a second inverter or portal reading is logged and compared to the baseline, and you receive a short written summary showing the measured output gain, any hardware notes, and photos of panel condition before and after.
Turnaround for a typical residential system of sixteen to thirty panels is same-day, usually two to four hours depending on roof pitch and access. Larger commercial arrays are quoted after a walk-through. Recurring quarterly or semi-annual service plans are available at a reduced rate and include a priority booking slot before pollen season and after major dust or wildfire-smoke events, which are the two conditions that cause the steepest sudden drop in output. I bring my own water tank and purification cartridges, so no hose bib access on your property is required, though it does speed up larger jobs when available.
