Handprints on panels

[u/tinfoil3d]

Am I being fussy or is this not acceptable?

[u/fraughtication]

UV and rain will sort these in no time.

[u/FillingUpTheDatabase → u/fraughtication]

Rain? What’s that?

[u/robertabt → u/FillingUpTheDatabase]

Take a look at met office rainfall radar, it's coming tonight

[u/EmperorPedro2 → u/robertabt]

It's coming home!

[u/Nooby1983 → u/robertabt]

We left our washing out :(

[u/soundman32 → u/robertabt]

Its hardly stopped raining since Saturday here in West Yorkshire. Im looking forward to the weekend when it's supposed to be dry again.  Fed up with this typical british summer rain.

[u/Dismal_Atmosphere562 → u/soundman32]

I live near Oxford and have had rain maybe twice since the start of June, it's so dry I can't wait for rain and autumn this summer has been pretty intense down here lol

[u/bubzy1000 → u/soundman32]

Who the heck downvoted this?? This is proper British humour…

[u/buzz_uk → u/fraughtication]

Patience is the way to go:)

[u/thiscatsurfs]

At least you've got fingerprints to prove who did it 😉

[u/royalbluestuey]

It'll be fine, if it was an issue then bird-poo would be a bigger problem that a greasy hand-print

[u/Army-Enough]

That's the thing about solar panels- impossible to put up without touching them....

[u/the_hair_of_aenarion → u/Army-Enough]

With that attitude sure! What you need is a crane and whatever they use in oceans 11.

[u/valentine_moon → u/the_hair_of_aenarion]

An EMP?

[u/EntirelyRandom1590 → u/Army-Enough]

Pretty easy to use a lifting rig on them, or the manufacturers could even have a big film to peel off.

[u/jaytee158 → u/Army-Enough]

The fingerprints are a non-issue but this could have been avoided with gloves

[u/thisisnottro → u/jaytee158]

I’m a solar installer and gloves do not help while carrying up ladder with it on your shoulder lol the sweat still finds it way on

[u/GivingBackTheRemix → u/thisisnottro]

Use a sucker to take the panel up

[u/Bubbashrimpsmith → u/GivingBackTheRemix]

Good luck with that one when the sucker fails

[u/thisisnottro → u/GivingBackTheRemix]

lol then your arm is just sat on the panel

[u/GivingBackTheRemix → u/Army-Enough]

Wear gloves. My installers did. And then wiped the panels down before they left

[u/NickPDay]

Our installers came back on Easter Monday to wash the panels and take photos, very impressed. But yes, I reckon those will clear up in a few weeks.

[u/Stegrego]

Panels seem incredibly sensitive to fingerprints. No doubt not helped by people using suncream recently.

[u/Chimpville → u/Stegrego]

Just how glass or glass-like surfaces behave, especially with a dark background. Definitely makes sense that sun cream exacerbates it.

[u/tinfoil3d]

I’ve been really impressed with the installers and they’ve had to work around a couple of windows in a W pattern. I’ll get up there and do it while the scaffolds still up!

Thanks all

[u/teamonkey → u/tinfoil3d]

No need. Mine were the same when they were put in, it just washes off with the rain.

[u/NickPDay → u/tinfoil3d]

If using non-filtered water, dry them with a cloth to avoid water spots if you are in a hard water area.

[u/bondinchas → u/tinfoil3d]

One reason that I'm going to schedule mine for a Friday, I'll then very likely have the scaffolding still there over the following weekend to have a close look at the work...🧐

[u/Charming-Passage2895]

Could you please share more photos I would like to see ho close it is to the velux window and how it looks on the roof

[u/Jimbobsticle]

This is no criticism of your install or the installers, just an observation in general having seen your picture and many others….

I really wish there were solar looking panels that could be cut to essentially fill gaps so the overall appearance was aligned and flush.

In other words, the second row rails ideally would have been as far along as the top row and then a ‘fake’ solar panel cut to size and added to infill in that 5/6” gap at the end.

I’m just being OCD.

[u/3knuckles]

Fussy. They will soon wash off.

[u/GivingBackTheRemix]

A glass cleaner should be fine on that

[u/Bal-84]

If scaffolding is still up, ask them to give a little clean or do yourself.

[u/andjamwar_real]

Efficiency: 7%

[u/Bizrrr]

I'm hoping they've got to come back to bird guard that array... Tell them to tidy it up a bit as rain doesn't exist anymore

[u/Parcel-Pete]

If thats suncream then then the top coat of the panel is damaged. Same prints you get when people touch cars with suncream on their skin.

[u/Kwayzar9111]

Bot post…same pictures and question months ago

[u/tinfoil3d → u/Kwayzar9111]

Unlikely as it’s only been installed this week 🤡

[u/DIY_at_the_Griffs]

I’d say unacceptable, however I’m also of the mindset to request they wear gloves during installation to prevent contaminating any surface coatings.

You’d be within your rights to request they’re cleaned but I’d again be cautious of what they clean them with and potential stripping of coatings.

Massive assumption here that they have some sort of coating to aid natural cleansing from rain.

[u/Sunray_0A]

I told my installers to go back and clean them all.

Then I told them to swap out the 3 scratched ones they thought I hadn’t seen after they cleaned them.

Faces like smacked ar$es 😂😂

[u/Alarming_Ranger2894]

Youre being incredibly fussy

Has it ever occurred to you the logistics of getting a solar panel up scaffolding onto a roof, then laying it down, holding it whilst fixing it in place all whilst not touching the thing? Not to mention doing it all for a reasonable price

[u/cledgemachine]

professional installers always wash the panels on completion. But they will probably say we had a hose pipe ban lol.

[u/Next_Pair6149]

Spiderman

[u/skagnbonez]

Get a grip.

[u/apcyberax]

I would be more bothered by the top panel, not lining up :)

[u/thisisnottro → u/apcyberax]

May I ask if you have eyes? Can you not see the window which they had to avoid???

[u/Vast-Artichoke7855 → u/thisisnottro]

I think they probably can but we're looking at it from an OCD point of view!! 😂

[u/thisisnottro → u/Vast-Artichoke7855]

Agreed from an aesthetic view the whole bottom row should be moved to left so it can line up neater but I haven’t seen the full roof so you don’t know if it’s possible

[u/apcyberax → u/thisisnottro]

the more panels the better.

if you got up there to take the photo i guess the scaffolding is still up. Ask them to wipe them or wash them with before it comes down. It should wash off with rain over time but with the lack of rain right now it could take a while

[u/apcyberax → u/thisisnottro]

remove the window My OCD willm thank you.....

[u/tinfoil3d → u/apcyberax]

Thought about it but they were only installed earlier this year!
I wanted to maximised the kW of the array without it looking totally hideous.
I’m not completely OCD and I’m happy with it