New to Solar Panels

Just added solar panels to our services this year, got a Gardiner CLX 32, and DI water, as far as I know this is non conductive.
Does anyone get their clients to shut off the power first for safety? Been doing as much research as I can, but wanted to see what tips y’all have? Got a lot of these popping up and I’m the only in the area with WFP to do these. Thanks in advance


Banks of panels ready for cleaning,

Never had them shut off in the past.

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We’ve been seeing more and more of these pop up around us so will probably market this soon also. We just got a wfp recently and use it for residential and love it so far.

I haven’t looked into cleaning solar panels yet myself but I’m thinking about it. Question I have for folks doing it is I’m sure you had to let your insurance provider know you are adding the service. I’m guessing there is quite a premium increase to cover you working on them? I know every provider is different but was it a significant increase?

Not here…

I’ll have to call my provider and see what they say.

The minimal benefit realized from cleaning solar panels isn’t attractive enough for people to pay to have them cleaned. Perhaps if you live in a particularly dusty dirty area, but here I just don’t see it as much of a profitable add on.

The only real way to sell solar panel cleaning to benefit both the service provider and the customer is to only do it as an add on service while you are doing another service, or else the minimum price of many services will outweigh the savings the customer would receive from the energy generation of the panels.

In my market people are VERY well aware of how much they their panels are generating per quarter and if your price is in excess of this then they will more than likely opt to not have then cleaned at all.

I only charge $3 per panel provided I am on site. If that’s all they want done its gonna be $120 minimum even if its 1 panel…

I have seen a bunch of people on facebook that are asking for $5 per panel, in my market with the $value/kwh to a customer who actually has a 7th grade math ability they would see that cleaning the panels costs more than they are generating.

Honestly with a WFP solar panels are VERY VERY VERY easy and FAST to clean, 20 panels you can smash out in less than 10 mins.

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Here are some panels I cleaned a few days ago.
Took me less than 15 mins FROM the ground…
(pic is pre clean)
I had to clean the roofs of several buildings as well.

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I just emailed my insurance co a few days ago, still waiting to here back from them. I’ll let you know tho.

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Thanks, that’s helpful, I have a local council that gets me to do any buildings they have for cleaning work, and they asked me to clean them twice a year, funny thing is as I was quoting, I asked if they have a shutoff, and the maintenance said they’re not even live yet.
But it’s all on ocean front so the salt air and storm winds blow in a lot of debri
Good to know there quick too, thought I’d underbid on a different one coming up but seems right in line with your pricing.


I was going to ladder up to the gutterline, but like your idea to go straight of the ground :grinning:

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Thanks!

Steve do you have too work off a ladder on some? how do you avoid getting wet or so you work from roof on those?

from ground do you use a gooseneck?

tia

Generally I will work off the roof and I normally stand above the panels if possible, otherwise clean them diagonally standing at the base of 1 panel and clean the panel next to it and work backwards.

But yes from the ground you will require a goose neck to apply any pressure to the panels to clean them.

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If anyone considers themselves an expert in solar panel cleaning (both the cleaning and electrical systems sides), I would like to have a conversation / consultation with them.

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