Poole · BH12 – BH17, plus BH13 and BH14

Solar panel cleaning and inspection in Poole

We clean, inspect and make minor repairs to existing solar arrays across Poole on a monthly plan, rather than as one-off jobs. This is our home patch — we are based in Poole, so it is the shortest journey we make.

We cover Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs, Lilliput, Parkstone, Broadstone, Hamworthy and Upton, and the surrounding BH12 – BH17, plus BH13 and BH14 postcodes.

Booking October visits now. We work one postcode area at a time rather than criss-crossing the county, so slots in each area are limited by how many homes one person can properly look after. A £25 refundable deposit holds a place, and it comes off your first month.

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Local conditions

Salt, and a lot of it

What actually lands on a roof in Poole, and why it matters.

Harbour salt, on three sides

Poole Harbour is one of the largest natural harbours in the world, and most of the town sits within a couple of miles of either the harbour or Poole Bay. Salt aerosol carries a long way inland on a south-westerly. It settles as a fine film that dries hard, and it is one of the deposits that rain genuinely does not shift — it simply redistributes it.

Sandbanks and Canford Cliffs are the most exposed roofs in the county

Anything on the peninsula or the cliff tops takes salt from two directions with nothing in the way. These also tend to be the larger arrays, where a few percent of lost output is a meaningful number rather than a rounding error.

Gulls, and flat roofs to nest on

Herring gulls nest readily on the flat and shallow-pitch roofs common around the harbour and the town centre. Droppings are the single most damaging thing that lands on a panel, and gulls are territorial enough to keep returning to the same roof.

Pine pollen in late spring

The chines and the pines that Poole shares with Bournemouth drop a fine yellow pollen through May and June. On its own it rinses off. Combined with salt film it makes a paste that does not.

Our honest take for Poole: If you are on the harbour side or the cliffs, we would generally suggest the more frequent visit pattern rather than the minimum. Salt is relentless in a way that inland dust is not.

What a visit covers

• A full clean of the array using deionised water, so nothing is left behind as it dries
• A documented inspection: mounting and clamps, cable runs and clips, isolators, and inverter readings
• Minor repairs on the spot where they are minor — a loose clip, a sagging cable, a slipped bird guard
• A written report each visit, so you have a history of the system rather than a vague memory
• A flag on anything that needs a qualified installer, with no attempt to do it ourselves

We are a maintenance and cleaning business, not an MCS-certified installer. If something needs an installer or an electrician, we will tell you plainly rather than have a go.

Not sure how often you need it?

The honest answer depends on where your roof is and what is above it, which is exactly what the sections above are about. We have written up the reasoning in full: how often solar panels should be cleaned in the UK.

Other areas we cover:
Bournemouth · Christchurch · Weymouth · Dorchester · Wimborne

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