Crimson Point went up in Kuna's first tract wave between 2000 and 2008, so any solar here is a retrofit onto a roof that predates it by a decade or more. That changes both the cleaning and what is worth telling you while we are up there.
When an array is added to a roof that is already ten or fifteen years old, the panels and the roofing age on different schedules, and the array outlives the shingles beneath it. That is worth knowing because removing and reinstalling an array to reroof is a significant cost, and the time to think about it is before the roof fails rather than after. While we are cleaning we can tell you what the surrounding roof looks like, which is information most owners never get because nobody goes up there.
Crimson Point has the longest run of canal-irrigation exposure of any Kuna subdivision, and the same untreated Boise-Kuna canal water that has been spotting its windows for twenty years reaches any array within sprinkler throw. On panels the mineral dries onto hot glass and bakes on harder than it would on a window, and each spot shades the cell beneath it. Where a head is responsible we identify it at no charge.
Crimson Point lots were planted out over twenty years ago and the trees have filled in, which means arrays here can have genuine shading problems that did not exist when the system was designed. A tree that was a sapling at installation may now clip a corner of the array in the afternoon, and panels are wired in strings so one shaded panel drags down its neighbours. If shading is your real problem, cleaning will not fix it and we will say so rather than selling the wrong service.
Panels are flooded with pure deionized water, which has no dissolved solids so it lifts soiling and dries leaving nothing behind. Nothing abrasive touches the anti-reflective coating. We do not walk on panels, because point loading micro-fractures cells and permanently reduces output without visible damage. Solar panel cleaning is quoted by array size, after we assess mounting and access.
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It does long term. The array will outlive the shingles beneath it, and removing and reinstalling it to reroof is a significant cost, so the time to plan for that is before the roof fails. While cleaning we can tell you what the surrounding roof looks like.
If the array is within sprinkler throw, yes, and worse. The same untreated canal water dries onto hot panel glass and bakes on harder than it would on a window, and each spot shades the cell beneath it. We identify the offending head free of charge.
Quite possibly. These lots were planted out over twenty years ago, so a tree that was a sapling at installation may now clip the array in the afternoon. Panels are wired in strings, so one shaded panel drags down its neighbours, and cleaning will not fix it.
It will recover the soiling component, which on a long-neglected array can be meaningful. It will not recover the small annual degradation that is physics, and it will not recover losses caused by new shading. We will tell you which of those we think you are seeing.
By array size, after we assess mounting and access. A retrofit array with a long-established bonded film is more work than a maintained one of the same size, so we look rather than quoting from panel count alone.
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