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Solar panels in Broadstairs
Solar installation across Broadstairs, St Peter's, Reading Street and Kingsgate, including the exposed roofs along the cliff top.
Broadstairs has a lot of bungalows, and bungalows have a particular kind of roof: hipped on all sides, so no single slope is very big. The usual answer is two smaller arrays on the two best faces rather than one large one, with a design that's realistic about how many panels the roof can take.
Out towards Kingsgate and North Foreland the houses get bigger and the wind gets stronger. A roof on the cliff top sees weather that a roof in St Peter's never will, so the mounting has to be specified for it. That's a fixings and rail calculation, and we do it properly.
Planning
Broadstairs town centre and St Peter's village are conservation areas. Roof arrays are normally still permitted development, with conditions. Listed buildings need consent. We check at the survey rather than assume.
Roof types in Broadstairs
Bungalows and chalets
Hipped roofs with shorter runs, often across two aspects. Chalet dormers can get in the way, so the survey works out what fits.
Kingsgate and North Foreland
Larger detached houses exposed to the sea. Wind loading decides the mounting spec.
St Peter's village
A conservation area with older cottages and tile roofs. Usually fine for roof panels, but we check each one.
Interwar semis
Simple pitched roofs with concrete tiles across most of the town. Straightforward jobs.
Similar roofs
Jobs on roofs like the ones in Broadstairs
How it works
What to expect
Survey
We check the roof pitch, orientation, shading and structure, and the condition of your existing electrical installation. The consumer unit is the one people forget about, and it often decides what's possible.
Design and quote
You get a panel layout for your roof, the make and model of the panels and inverter, a generation estimate with the assumptions listed, and a fixed price.
Installation
Scaffold, mounting, panels, then the electrical work. Most domestic installations take a few days.
Certification and handover
We test and commission the system, issue the MCS certificate, and show you how the monitoring and the shutdown procedure work before we leave.
FAQs
Questions we get asked in Broadstairs
My bungalow roof is small. Is it worth doing?
Usually. A bungalow uses less electricity than a large house as well as having a smaller roof, so a modest array often covers a good share of it. The survey gives you a proper figure.
We get a lot of wind up here. Will the panels stay on?
Yes, as long as the mounting is specified for the site. Wind uplift is calculated from exposure, roof height and pitch, and on the cliff top that changes the fixings we use. It's part of the design.
Could you use the roof of a garage or outbuilding instead?
Often that's the better roof. It's lower, easier to work on and less visible. The cable run back to the house is the part that needs pricing.
Nearby
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Get a price
Solar in Broadstairs,
priced for your roof
Your postcode and a rough idea of the job is enough, solar or otherwise. You'll hear back from the electricians who'd do the work, not a sales team.