Solar Panels

Solar Panel options

There are different options when it comes to installing Solar panels, depending on your situation.

Flat Roof

Many buildings, especially large scale commercial, benefit from having large flat roofed areas. This can end itself extremely well to solar. Using either an anchored fixing and or weighted ballast system, we secure mounting frames to the flat roof for the panels to secure to. The benefit to this system is that we can set the panels out to optimised panel tilt to face the sun. You are not governed by the orientation of the building like with a traditional apex roof.

Here we could have a purely south facing array, or a domed system with an east to west array, taking advantage of the east rising sun in the morning and the setting sun in the west in the evening.

In Roof

Some people have indifferent feelings when it comes to the aesthetics of solar panels on roofs. We provide an ‘in-roof’ solution that flush fits the panels with the roof tiles, so there are no visible mounting rails and no stand off height from the roof. This is sometimes a preferred option especially if there is opportunity to install the panel at the same as the roof, in the case of a new build property, saving the customer on many M2 of roof tiles. There is an additional saving in the outlay of scaffolding, as it will likely already be present due to the build.

On Roof

The most common Installation of panels is an ‘on-roof’ system. This involves a selection of roof hooks being installed under the tiles and fastened to the roof joists. Metal rails are then bolted to the roof hooks and the panels are mounted on the rails. The roof hooks are installed in such a way as to ensure there is no water ingress.

Ground Mount

No Roof space but lots of land? Ground mount systems may be the answer. With lots of different options, ground mount solar can maximise the potential for otherwise unused space in a part of an unused field or bottom of an unshaded garden.