Things worth knowing
Straight answers, written by the people who fit it
No listicles, no scare tactics, no numbers we cannot show you the working for. Mostly the questions we get asked halfway up a ladder.
Horsham stone, flint and the Sussex roof problem
Some local roofs make solar straightforward. Others need a different conversation entirely. A survey-level guide to what we find on West Sussex roofs.
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Is a battery worth it? The honest arithmetic
A battery roughly doubles how much of your own generation you use. Whether that pays depends on when your house is empty. Here is the arithmetic.
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What solar actually does in a Sussex winter
Panels still generate on grey days — just less. What a West Sussex December really looks like on the app, and how to make the short days count.
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What actually happens at a free solar survey
Thirty to forty-five minutes, a look at your roof and your fuse board, and a quote afterwards. No pressure, and sometimes the answer is no.
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Charging an electric car off your own roof
Pairing a home charger with solar changes the maths on both. What actually gets charged by the sun, and why the two want designing together.
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Pigeons, panels and why we fit mesh as part of the job
The gap under a solar array is a perfect nesting site, and clearing a colony out later costs far more than preventing it. Which roofs need mesh.
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Zero VAT and the Smart Export Guarantee, explained plainly
The two schemes that actually affect what a domestic solar system costs and earns in the UK — what each one is, and what neither of them is.
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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.
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- 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.
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