Oceanside · Carlsbad · Vista · San Marcos · Escondido · Encinitas
Solar panel cleaning, priced on the spot. Our feet never on your roof.
Tap your panel count, get the flat price, book with one text. A 30-foot water-fed pole and pure deionized water do the work from the ground — no estimate visit, no callback, nobody on your roof.
Add windows, screens, skylights, or gutters?
Opens Messages with the quote pre-written — just hit send. We usually reply within the hour, 8am–8pm. Prefer to talk? (442) 222-8639
01 The method
Soft brushes, pure water, photos of everything
Not every array qualifies. If yours can't be reached safely from the ground, we tell you straight — free — and point you toward a roof-access crew instead. No ladders, no tile-walking, no exceptions.
Document
Timestamped photos of your array's condition before we touch anything — corners, close-ups, existing wear. The full set is yours.
Pure-water clean
The 30-foot pole carries soft bristles and water filtered until almost nothing is dissolved in it — metered below 10 ppm in front of you, logged on your report. No soap, no chemicals, no pressure washer — the same gentle approach the panel companies themselves recommend.
Walk-through, then the invoice
After-photos next to before-photos, at your door or in your text thread. You see the difference, then we send the invoice. That order never flips.
02 The guarantee
Spot-free, or we come back free.
See a spot inside 7 days? Text us the photo — we re-clean it free, usually within 48 hours. No forms, no debate: your text is the claim. And every job ends the same way: we walk you through your before-and-after photos, then we send the invoice.
One honest exception, stated up front: glass with years of baked-in mineral etching can't be fully restored by any safe cleaning method. If we see it, it'll be on your before photos and we'll tell you straight — we won't pretend a clean can fix it.
03 The two of us
Hi — we're Berk & Jachin.
Two friends from Oceanside who got obsessed with a weirdly satisfying problem: dusty solar panels. We built Sol & Summit around doing one thing exactly right — pure water, soft bristles, and never a single footstep on your roof.
There's no franchise playbook here and no investors — just the two of us, building this from scratch. Jachin's the workhorse: first one on the pole, last one to call a job finished. Berk's the technical one: the water rig, the checklists, the meter that has to read clean before a single panel gets touched. Between us, your home gets the kind of care a crew on its fourth job of the afternoon can't give — and we answer every text like it matters, because to us it genuinely does.
We're brand new, and we're not hiding it. New means when you text, a founder answers — usually within minutes — and when the pole goes up, it's one of us holding it. Your home gets founder-level care, because there's nobody else we'd trust with it yet.
(SHOT AT JOB No. 001, AUGUST)
Neighbors first
04 Solar 101
Know your panels — even if you never hire us
We'd rather teach you than sell you. The honest version of how this works:
What dirt actually costs
At SDG&E's ~40–46¢/kWh rates, a typical home quietly losing ~5% of production to grime leaves roughly $150–250 a year on the roof — more with bird droppings or low-tilt panels, less if yours sit steep and rain-rinsed. Honest math beats sales math, always.
Why rain doesn't fix it
Rain knocks off loose dust — then dries, leaving its own mineral spots, and it never touches the baked-on films: marine-layer salt haze, spring pollen sap, road and freeway exhaust. Those need contact with a soft brush and water pure enough to grab them.
Your solar app already knows
Open Enphase or SolarEdge and compare a sunny week this month against the same week last year — that gap is weather plus grime. It's also the honest before/after test for any cleaning, ours included. We'll show you how to read it when we visit.
When NOT to pay us
Panels that barely get dirty — steep tilt, no bird traffic, no film you can see, app numbers holding steady? Skip a cycle — we'll tell you so ourselves. If a clean won't plausibly pay for itself in output and lifespan, we'd rather keep your trust than take your $149.
05 While we're there
The pole is already up — put it to work
Every add-on rides the visit you already booked: same pole, same pure water, no second trip charge.
Spot-free glass, flat add-on — no squeegee streaks, no soap film. Exterior only.
31+ panes: still flat — text the count. Windows-only visit: add-on + $60 trip, $149 minimum.
+$39 (≤15 windows) · +$79 (16–30)
Screens brushed and rinsed, tracks vacuumed and wiped — while the windows dry. Cleaning only; re-screening is someone else's trade.
+$15 each
The pole reaches what ladders shouldn't. Same spot-free water, same photos in your report.
+$99 with any visit · $149 on their own
Cleared from the ground with a gutter vacuum — nobody on your roof edge, debris bagged and hauled. Single-story homes; if we can't reach yours safely, we'll say so.
06 · Camera-ready
Picture-perfect, street to roof
Some days the whole house needs to look finished — listing photos, an open house, family pictures on the lawn, or just pulling into a driveway that looks brand-new again. One visit clears the film off everything: panels, glass, skylights, gutter lines. That's the package the price calculator above builds.
FOR LISTING AGENTS — THE DRONE-READY POLISH:
- NEXT-DAY SLOTS held for listings — before photos, before showings
- BEFORE & AFTER PHOTOS delivered same day, yours for the listing file
- FLAT PRICE by panel count — quoted by text in under a minute, no walkthrough
- COI SAME-DAY on request · W-9 on file for your broker
07 Service area
The North County corridor
OCEANSIDE — HOME BASE
Solar panel cleaning in Oceanside is where we live and where we start — from Fire Mountain to Rancho del Oro to the South O flats. Coastal salt film meets inland dust here, and being local means same-week slots and no trip padding.
SAN MARCOS
Solar panel cleaning in San Marcos — San Elijo Hills, Discovery Hills, Twin Oaks Valley — where inland dust plus spring pollen coat arrays fast, and half our first routes begin.
CARLSBAD
Marine-layer film is the quiet output-killer near the coast — it bakes onto glass through La Costa, Aviara, and Calavera Hills summers. Solar panel cleaning in Carlsbad pairs well with exterior windows; the salt haze hits both.
VISTA
From Shadowridge to downtown, Vista sits in the dust belt between coast and inland heat. Solar panel cleaning in Vista every six months keeps arrays near clean-day output through the long rainless stretch.
ESCONDIDO
The hottest, dustiest corner of our route — big arrays around Lake Hodges and Hidden Meadows collect the most grime and give back the most from a clean. Solar panel cleaning in Escondido is often our largest-system work.
ENCINITAS
Coastal film from Leucadia to Olivenhain, plus one of the busiest listing markets in the county — solar panel cleaning in Encinitas is half homeowners, half agents getting a property drone-ready.
08 FAQ
Straight answers
Why won't you go on my roof?
Foot traffic cracks tiles and can void roofing warranties — it's the top source of damage in this industry. Our 30-foot pole reaches most arrays from the ground. If yours genuinely can't be reached, we tell you straight and decline the job, free, rather than improvise on your roof.
How much does solar panel cleaning cost?
Residential visits around San Diego typically run $150–$350 depending on array size, usually priced per panel with a minimum on top — the largest local outfit charges $10 a panel with a $250 minimum. We charge flat: your first clean is $149 for homes of 13–20 panels ($189 after) and $129 for 12 panels or fewer ($149 after). Standard rates: $149 up to 12 panels, $189 for 13–20, $239 for 21–30, $289 for 31–40. Exterior windows add on from $69, same visit.
How often should panels be cleaned?
In our dry, dusty corridor: every six months. After your first clean, book the next one by the six-month mark and your standard rate stays locked — that's part of every job, and we'll remind you when you're due.
Do I need to be home?
No. Everything happens outside — we need ground access to the array side of the house and an outdoor spigot. Your photos arrive by text either way, and the walk-through happens in your thread.
How do I pay?
After the photo walk-through, we send the invoice — Zelle, Venmo, card, or cash. You see the results before any money moves.
Does cleaning actually increase output?
Usually some, sometimes a lot — it depends on the dirt load. Bird droppings, low-tilt arrays, and homes near dirt roads or freeways see the biggest gains; a lightly dusted array sees less. We won't promise a number — your own Enphase or SolarEdge app is the honest scoreboard.
What if you find damage — or cause it?
Anything already there is photographed and on record before we start, so there's never a question of who did what. We never repair panels, mounts, or wiring — that's licensed solar contractor territory, and we'll refer you out. And we carry for the thing that's never happened yet.
What's deionized water?
Water filtered until almost nothing is dissolved in it — we meter it on site, below 10 parts per million. It grabs dirt aggressively and dries without spots: no soap, no squeegee, no film baking onto your glass.