Residential solar panel cleaning in Madera, CA.
Tactical Solar Cleaning Business LLC is a Madera-based, owner-operated service focused on one thing: getting the dust, pollen, droppings and dry-season grime off your home's solar panels, carefully, so your system keeps producing what you paid for.
What a residential cleaning involves.
Every job — one-time or on a plan — runs through the same four steps, so nothing about your roof or your system is left to chance.
01
Assess
We look at the panel surface, roof height, access and anything worth flagging, and we tell you honestly whether a cleaning is worth it.
02
Prep
Ladders anchored, work areas protected, equipment laid out. Your roof, landscaping and property are treated like our own.
03
Clean
Panels are washed carefully, top to bottom, lifting away the dust film and droppings without harsh treatment.
04
Verify
We walk the result with you before we leave — panels, roof, and everything back the way we found it.
Stay ahead of it: maintenance plans.
Madera's dry season deposits dust faster than most homeowners expect. A plan keeps the buildup from ever setting in, with priority scheduling and the same careful process on every visit.
Quarterly
4 cleanings a year
Seasonal visits that stay ahead of Madera's dry-season dust, pollen and bird droppings before buildup has time to set in.
Bi-annual
2 cleanings a year
A spring and a fall visit — the minimum cadence we recommend for most Central Valley homes to keep buildup from taking hold.
Pricing depends on your system — panel count, roof height, access and risk — so we don't publish a rate card. Every quote is free, firm, and comes with the full price before anything is scheduled.
More than solar.
The same careful, methodical standard — the one we hold on every roof — applied to the rest of your home's exterior: gutters, birds, hard surfaces, glass, and the roof and panels themselves.
Gutter cleaning
Gutters move rain off your roof and away from your foundation. When a channel packs with leaves and debris, water spills over the fascia, pools at the base of the house, and the line itself gets heavy enough to pull loose. In the Central Valley, gutters fill quietly through the dry season — most homeowners find out during the first real rain.
We clear the full run by hand, check every downspout through, and inspect the line for damage while we're up there. You get a straight answer on anything we find — loose hangers, low spots, separation — before it turns into a repair.
Bird proofing
Solar panels make an ideal nesting shelf: warm, shaded underneath, and protected from above. Nesting birds pack debris under and around the array, droppings build up on the glass, and both cut into what your system produces — the same problem our cleaning exists to fix, happening faster than any cleaning can keep up with.
We inspect the problem areas, fit a proofing solution suited to your roofline and panel setup, and follow up to confirm it's holding. No harsh measures — a barrier placed properly, so birds move along and your roofline stays clean.
Pressure washing
Driveways, walkways, and siding collect a season of dust, algae, and grime that a garden hose won't touch. Left alone, it doesn't just look bad — organic growth holds moisture against the surface and works on it long after the rain stops.
We assess the surface first, choose pressure and technique suited to the material, and wash the agreed area in full. When the job's done, we walk it with you — the same standard we hold on every roof.
Roof & panel inspection
A trained eye on your roof and panels, before small problems become expensive ones. Most roof and panel issues start small — a fastener working loose, a mounting point wearing, a crack you can't see from the ground — and stay invisible until they're costing real money.
We perform a full visual inspection of the roof surface and the panel condition, check for mounting or wear issues, and hand you a plain-language summary of what was found — what's fine, what to watch, and what (if anything) needs a call to a roofer or your installer. No jargon, no pressure, and no work you didn't ask for.
Window cleaning
Streak-free windows, inside and out — a clear view in every room. Glass is the one surface in your home you both look at and look through, and the Central Valley writes on it all year: dust film outside, fingerprints and smudges inside. Streaks aren't dirt left behind — they're usually residue from the wrong product or a rushed squeegee, which is why the last step matters as much as the first.
We clean the interior and exterior glass, wipe down the screens and sills, and finish with a streak check — walking the windows with you in the light before we call it done. The same careful, methodical standard we hold on every roof, applied to the glass your home is counted on to be clear.
Where we work.
We're based in Madera and work with homeowners across the surrounding communities — roughly a 25-mile radius. If you're a little outside that, reach out anyway; we can usually make it work.
Madera · Madera Ranchos · Bonadelle Ranchos · Parksdale · Parkwood · Fairmead · La Vina · Chowchilla · Kerman · Biola · North Fresno
A little outside those communities? Reach out anyway — we can usually make it work, and we'll always be straight with you about any travel cost before you commit to anything.