Solar Panel Pigeon Protection in Milton Keynes - 10 Year Guarantee
In Milton Keynes the local authority has thrown its weight behind CAPE – the Community Action Plan for Energy. The project is designed to connect communities in the area and help them develop local energy schemes in particular with renewable energy like solar power in minds. The CAPE website gives residents and businesses local to the Milton Keynes area access to satellite based information that allows them to see how efficient or otherwise they are with their energy use. And it gives them access to suppliers who can help them do something about it. CAPE also allows Milton Keynes residents to apply for grants in areas like renewable energy.
This and other factors has led to a big increase in the demand for Milton Keynes solar panel companies and to the number of residents requiring solar panel proofing measures in Buckinghamshire at a whole, including Newport Pagnell and Bletchley.
If you look closely at the roofs in the area, you will see that many of them have wire mesh down the side. This is to stop pigeons getting underneath and nesting. It’s a huge problem, and one with the local solar panel companies don’t tell you about. You may soon find yourself looking for a Milton Keynes pigeon proofing service.
Pigeons like to nest high up, somewhere safe, warm and sheltered. And the gap under solar panels gives them exactly what they want – on top of your roof. This leads to a build-up of debris and toxic pigeon guano on the panels, and under them as well. This can not only affect the panels’ performance over times, but can also corrode the fittings. Plus with female pigeons underneath the solar panels and males hanging around nearby, usually also on your roof, they will create a hell of a noise, and a hell of a mess.
The good news is that here at British Bird Control we can help through our Milton Keynes solar panel pigeon proofing service. We know just how stop the pigeons getting underneath solar panels, so that they will move on, long term. And we offer a gilt-edged TEN-YEAR GUARANTEE with all our solar panel pigeon protection work in Buckinghamshire.
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!
