Roof work

We will start by mounting the solar electric panels on your roof. Depending on the number of panels and their fixings, this will normally take two days. We do a range of different systems, but generally all of our systems sit on top of your existing roof covering,and do not interfere with the water tightness and integrity of your roof. We also have lots of experience of roof integrating the systems, and this involves removing the tiles and replacing them with a framed solar electric system. The collector is flashed around and the tiles fit snuggly up against it so once again the water tightness and integrity of your roof is unaffected - but it does give a very neat finish. We use alumium framing systems that are designed specifically for solar electric systems, that are very robust and brilliant to work with. The panels are all joined up electrically on the roof and the cables are fed into your loft space (if you have one). Solar electric arrays look really stricking - we think they look really impressive!

Electrical works inside your house

Inside your house we will need to install some switches, an inverter and a total generation meter (to count exactly what you system produces). We will also need to run a cable from our system, down to your consumer unit or fuse box. Once all this has been done then the system is wired into you house ring main, and therefore the national grid.

Commisioning it and turning it on!

Once the system is finished and checked then it is then switched on and immediately you start collecting solar energy! The team leader will then talk you through how the system functions, so that you understand what it is doing. Once completed the system requires very little intervention. We often find that people do like to check what is going on with it, and the inverter gives you a display of what the system is generating. It is suprising how satisfying it is when you see that you are collecting free energy - quick turn on the washing machine!