Solar panel cleaning
Fits best: an exterior cleaner adding a niche.
Pros
- ✓Few competitors; 1–2 cleans a year
- ✓Opens on under $10K of equipment
- ✓High margin per job
- ✓No special license to start
Cons
- !Small market on its own
- !Seasonal: busiest spring–fall
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 20 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 40 jobs a month in season. Add window cleaning for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Keep inside an exterior-care membership.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Keep inside an exterior-care membership.
The details
- Vehicle
- Truck
- Repeat customers
- Medium
- Licensing
- Low
- Season
- Spring–fall
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
Add-on for exterior cleaning crews.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (40), times 8 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: EntrepX working estimate.