Pigeon Proofing Solar Panels in Birmingham - 10 Year Guarantee
If you have a problem with pigeons under solar panels, as many people do, we can help. We are full British Pest Control Association (BPCA) members and offer fast, friendly, efficient and GUARANTEED solar panel pigeon protection service in Birmingham and the surrounding towns and villages.
What the solar panel companies in Birmingham fail to tell you when they are fitting your solar panels, is that they are creating the perfect safe, warm, protected and sheltered place for pigeons to nest, exactly where they want to – on your roof!
The gap left between the roof tiles and the solar panels is the perfect space for the female pigeons to create a nest and raise young, while the male birds keep watch on other parts of the roof, both of them creating a nuisance, a mess and potentially damaging the performance of your panels.
In Birmingham, the council’s Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) and its stated policy to try to cut CO2 emissions by 60% for the foreseeable future has led to a surge in the number of Birmingham residents fitting solar panels on their homes. And it doesn’t take long for pigeons in particular to take advantage.
The good news is that here at British Bird Control we can help, and we offer a gilt-edged TEN-YEAR GUARANTEE with all our solar panel pigeon protection work anywhere in Birmingham.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does solar panel pigeon proofing cost? solar panels?
At British Bird Control we like to keep things nice and simple when it comes to the cost of solar panel pigeon protection, and we are very competitive indeed on price. Our cost structure is largely based on whether or not our operatives will require scaffolding to carry out the work safely.
We can usually work this out from a telephone consultation and a quick look at your property on Google Earth, and can often provide you with a quotation over the phone. We require a 25% deposit to book in. Call us on 0800 327 7293.
Pigeons are creating a mess on my solar panels and roof tiles. Can you clean this?
Providing you can provide an in-reach external tap, the work includes free-of-charge removal of mess and fouling from inside the gutters beneath the installation where we can get ladders to the gutters and where it’s safe to do so, and also a rinse down (not a full clean) of the panel surfaces.
This should shift any light build-up of fouling and dirt, but if you have a heavy build-up of fouling, algae and/or lichens on the panel surfaces a specialist chemical clean would be needed and this is not something we can offer as a pest control company.
We do not clean roof tiles which again is a specialist service and take no responsibility for blocked downpipes which can become clogged up with a build-up of fouling and are not able to help with this as freeing it requires specialist equipment. We treat where nesting has been going on regardless of whether we can safely get all the nests out with biocide.
Are pigeons affecting the performance of my solar panels?
If you have birds getting under solar panels and believe this could be adversely affecting the performance of the panels and the very reason you got them in the first place, please let us know during the telephone consultation.
We have teams that can evaluate and fix solar panel performance on the spot, but if this is the case we may need to make a separate visit before the solar panel proofing takes place to check whether there is a short circuit, broken solar panel inverter, or other electrical issue which would make it dangerous to be on the roof until fixed. Please also let us know if you think there are dead adult pigeons under solar panels when we talk on the phone – they may have been electrocuted!
