13 miles from the workshop
Solar panels in Horsham
Washington sits inside the Horsham district, so this is not a town we travel to so much as the one we are already in.
What we find on Horsham roofs
If the roof is Horsham stone, the answer is almost never a standard hook. Survey first, and expect the design to change.
Distance, geography, housing stock and the planning position all change how a system gets designed. These are the ones that decide it in Horsham.
What we take into account here
- Approximately 13 road miles north of Washington on the A24 — the same district, the same council, the same roads.
- Washington is itself a village in the Horsham district of West Sussex, at the foot of the Downs beneath Chanctonbury Ring.
- Horsham stone — thick sandstone slabs — roofs a good number of older properties across the district. It is heavy, brittle, irregular, and it changes the mounting conversation completely.
- The district’s southern downland strip, including our Washington base, lies inside the South Downs National Park, where permitted development for roof panels carries tighter conditions.
- Substantial modern estate development north and east of the town centre — large, simple, well-oriented pitched roofs of exactly the kind an array likes.
- Named in our own coverage statement: “we mostly serve West Sussex, Hampshire and parts of Surrey and the South Coast.”
- Full service coverage, including general electrical work as an NICEIC Approved Contractor as well as solar.
Also covered from here
Billingshurst is covered from this page rather than having one of its own — the same vans and the same survey.
The systems that suit Horsham
Three arrangements cover most of what goes on a West Sussex roof. Which one your house wants is decided at the survey, on the roof itself — not from a satellite image.
Our own photographs. They show the systems we design and fit — not specific completed jobs in Horsham, and no customer or address is identified.
The same certifications, whichever end of the patch you are on.
Other areas we cover
The next step
Book your free survey
Thirty to forty-five minutes, at your house, at no cost. We look at the roof, the fuse board and how you actually use the place — then send you a clear quote with the assumptions shown.
- Call 01243 882444
- Email hello@solar-squirrel.co.uk
- Based Washington, West Sussex
If solar genuinely won’t pay for itself on your usage, we’ll say so and save us both an afternoon.
Rather see the numbers before you speak to anybody? Put your own bill on the house — it works out the size, the saving and the payback while you watch, and brings them down to this form with you.