Solar Panel Pigeon Protection in Corby - Ten-Year Guarantee
Corby Borough Council has been keen on solar power for years, and after Government funding for grants to help with the move to this renewable energy source dried up, Corny councillors have been looking at other ways to encourage the Northamptonshire town’s residents to go solar. Thinking
outside of the box, the council hooked up with community enterprise company Empower Community Management to secure funding for a Corby solar panel project at an initial 1,000 social housing homes, with the hope that there will be many more on the way. ECM promises that profits from such projects are ploughed back into them, with any surplus energy going to the community. Tenants receive free daytime power, with an estimated saving to them of around £200 a year.
That’s of course if they are working properly. One of the things that can get in the way of optimum solar panel performance are pigeons, or pigeon droppings to be precise. Pigeons and solar panels go hand in hand – the females love the space underneath them for nesting – and anyone in the area
with solar panels is likely to be looking for Corby solar panel proofing companies sooner or later. Once a female pigeons has ‘taken a fancy’ to your panels, you are likely to experience multiple problems, including falling out with your neighbours due to the noise and mess they create. Pigeon droppings are toxic due to the uric acid content. Indeed the council classifies pigeon guano as hazardous waste, and you need special licences to deal with it, which we have.
Over time the acid can corrode the solar panel fittings, and any build-up of pigeon droppings on solar panels will shade the photovoltaic cells and inhibit their ability convert the sun’s radiation into electricity. You should also be aware that pigeon guano is a vector for some very nasty bacteria and disease that are transmittable to humans and can make a person very ill. There’s more on that in our Blog. All in all pigeons under solar panels is an issue that needs dealing with.
The good news is that here at British Bird Control we can help through our specialist Corby solar panel pigeon proofing service. We are based in Northamptonshire ourselves, just up the road from Corby, and we know just how stop the pigeons getting underneath solar panels, so that they will
move on, long term. We offer a gilt-edged TEN-YEAR GUARANTEE with all our solar panel pigeon protection work in Northamptonshire and we cover most of the surrounding area includes Market Harborough, Kettering, Oundle, Stamford and Oakham.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does solar panel pigeon protection 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!
