Battery · 5 min read
Battery or no battery: reading your own bill
Where your units go by the hour, how tariffs and export rates change the sums, and one roof priced with and without a battery.
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Guides
Read these before you get a quote.
What a quote should say, when a battery pays, what the survey looks for and how export payments work — in plain English, from a consultancy that never installs.
Every guide
Before you buy, and after.
Each guide explains one part of the job: what happens, in what order, and what to ask. None of them sells you anything.
Before you buy · 5 min read
Survey day: what happens, and how to get ready
What the surveyor checks on the roof, in the loft and at the fuse box, what to have ready, and what happens once they have gone.
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Money · 5 min read
Export payments, in plain English
How the Smart Export Guarantee works, what has to be in place before payments start, and why part of a solar saving is export income.
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Planning ahead · 5 min read
Planning for a car or a heat pump before you buy solar
Why an electric car or a heat pump changes the array, the inverter and the battery, and how to plan for both before you buy solar.
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Before you buy · 5 min read
Reading a solar quote, line by line
What each line of a solar quote should say, what is often missing, and the questions worth asking before you sign.
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Your roof · 5 min read
Slate, tile or flat: what your roof covering changes
How solar rails are fixed on slate, tiles and flat roofs, what the survey looks for, and why the covering moves the price.
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Your roof · 5 min read
What an aerial roof reading can and can’t tell you
The six things we read from above before anyone visits, how each one shapes the estimate, and what only a survey can see.
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