Cleanwave → Solar Panel Cleaning
Dirty panels quietly lose you money every sunny day. We clean them with deionised water and no detergents, send you the before-and-after photos, and never set foot on your roof without a harness. From $180.
Tell us how many panels and we’ll come back within 24 hours with a price. No obligation.
Melbourne rain is not a cleaner. It lands, dries, and leaves the dust bonded to the glass in a film — which is why panels often look worse a week after a downpour than before it.
Droppings and lichen don’t just dim the glass, they block a cell completely. One shaded cell can drag down the whole string it sits in, so a small mess costs more output than its size suggests.
Soiling builds up over months, so there’s no day where output visibly drops. Most people find out only when they compare a summer bill against the same month a year earlier.
How much you get back depends on how dirty the panels were, how they’re tilted and what’s around them — a flat roof under a gum tree is a different story to a steep roof in the open. We won’t quote you a percentage we can’t stand behind. What we will do is photograph the panels before and after so you can see exactly what came off.
Water with the minerals stripped out. It lifts dirt and dries without leaving the white spotting that tap water leaves behind — and no detergent ever touches the glass.
Most roofs are cleaned from the ground with a telescopic pole, so nobody walks on your tiles. Abrasive pads and pressure washers stay in the van; both can scratch the anti-reflective coating.
Where the layout leaves no choice, we go up with a harness and anchor line. It’s in the photos we send you.
Before and after, panel by panel. You see the result whether or not you were home.
BeforeAfter
| Number of panels | Price |
|---|---|
| Up to 10 panels | $180 – $220 |
| 11 – 20 panels | $220 – $300 |
| 21 – 40 panels | $300 – $460 |
| 40+ panels (commercial) | from $6 per panel |
Ranges, not a single number, because a steep tiled roof takes longer than a flat one. You get one fixed figure in writing before we start, and it doesn’t move unless you ask for something extra. No GST applicable.
Doing the gutters too? Book two or more services in the same visit and save 10%. Gutters and solar panels on the same day is our most common combination — one trip, one price, one clean-up.
See all pricingFifteen minutes on site, a fixed quote in your inbox within 24 hours, and our insurance certificate attached. No obligation, no lock-in.
Request a site visitSend a message whenever it suits you — early, late, or over the weekend. Someone from the team reads it and gets back to you as soon as we can, usually the same day. No call centre, no ticket number, no chasing.
Everything inside the circle — roughly 25 km from Noble Park. Not sure if you're in? Just ask.
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