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Critter guard

Solar Panel Critter Guard in Oak Forest

Protect the wiring and equipment under your array with a mesh screen that keeps nesting birds and squirrels on the outside.

Protecting What Lives Under Your Panels

The space beneath a solar array holds more than shade, because that is where the wiring and connectors that keep your system producing are run, and it is also exactly the kind of sheltered, warm gap that pigeons and squirrels love to move into. Once they move in, nests and droppings accumulate, leaves collect alongside them, and the animals themselves can chew at wires that were never meant to be gnawed on. A critter guard closes off that space so your equipment is left alone. Solar Panel Removal Oak Forest fits a non-penetrating mesh screen that clips to the outer frames of the array, so nothing is drilled into your panels or your roof. Air continues to move freely underneath, but birds, squirrels and blown debris stay out. Fitting one while a detach and reset is underway works best, when the area under the array is completely open and can be cleaned before the screen goes on, though we can also fit one to an array that is staying in place after clearing what we can reach from the edge.

What the Critter Guard Installation Includes

A tidy, complete screen that keeps your equipment protected.

  • A look around the array

    We check the perimeter and how large the opening underneath is.

  • Clearing old nests

    We pull out old nesting material and debris as far as we can reach.

  • Clip-on mesh screen

    Fastened to the array frames, with no drilling into panels or roof.

  • Neatly finished edges

    Corners and joins trimmed so the screen sits snugly.

  • Ventilation preserved

    Air still flows beneath the panels.

How the Screen Is Fitted

  1. Telling us what you have noticed

    Describe the birds, the noise or the mess and roughly how large the array is, and a firm phone quote follows.

  2. Clearing the space underneath

    During a reset the area is cleaned completely while the modules are off, and otherwise we clear what is within reach.

  3. Closing the perimeter

    The screen is fitted all the way around, and we check carefully for any gap before finishing.

Why Protect the Array With Us

  • Your wiring stays untouched

    Keeping animals out means nothing gets chewed or nested on.

  • Nothing drilled into the roof

    The screen clips to the array, leaving your roof and panels intact.

  • Easy to add during a reset

    Fitting it while the array is already being handled saves a separate visit.

  • Clip-on mesh
  • Old nests cleared
  • Full perimeter closed
  • Airflow preserved

Hearing Birds Under Your Solar Panels?

Call for a firm price on a critter guard, whether you add it on its own or alongside a detach and reset.