Christchurch · BH23
We clean, inspect and make minor repairs to existing solar arrays across Christchurch on a monthly plan, rather than as one-off jobs. Around thirty minutes east of us, straight along the coast.
We cover Mudeford, Highcliffe, Burton, Somerford, Purewell and Friars Cliff, and the surrounding BH23 postcodes.
What actually lands on a roof in Christchurch, and why it matters.
Christchurch sits at the confluence of two rivers running into a shallow harbour. That is excellent for birds and less excellent for solar panels. Swans, geese and gulls all use the harbour and the water meadows, and roofs on the flight lines between them collect the evidence.
A dropping is opaque. It does not dim a panel, it blocks a cell outright, and because cells are wired in series a single blocked cell drags down everything in its string until a bypass diode intervenes. That is why a few small deposits can cost far more output than an even layer of dust across the whole array.
Highcliffe, Friars Cliff and Mudeford take the same salt exposure as the rest of the coast, with the cliff-top properties getting the most of it.
Christchurch has plenty of arrays fitted during the feed-in tariff years. Systems from that era are now ten to fifteen years old, which is exactly when mounting hardware, cable clips and isolators start to be worth actually inspecting rather than assuming.
Our honest take for Christchurch: If your system went in under the feed-in tariff, the inspection half of a visit is arguably worth more to you than the clean.
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.
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:
Poole · Bournemouth · Weymouth · Dorchester · Wimborne