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Solar panels in Broadstairs
Bungalows and chalets in St Peter's and Reading Street, the bigger houses towards Kingsgate, and the exposed roofs along the cliff top.
Broadstairs is bungalow country, and bungalows have a particular shape of roof: hipped on all sides, so no single slope is very big. The answer is usually two smaller arrays on the two best faces rather than one large one, and a design that is honest about how many panels the roof genuinely has room for.
Out towards Kingsgate and the North Foreland the houses get larger and the wind gets stronger. Roofs on the cliff top see weather that a roof in St Peter's never will, and the mounting has to be specified for it. That is a fixings and rail calculation, not a guess.
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. Checked at the survey, with nothing assumed.
The roofs round here
Bungalows and chalets
Hipped roofs, shorter runs, often two aspects. Chalet dormers can get in the way; the survey maps what actually fits.
Kingsgate and North Foreland
Larger detached houses, exposed to the sea. Wind loading drives the mounting spec. More roof, more care.
St Peter's village
A conservation area with older cottages and tile roofs. Usually fine for roof panels, checked case by case.
Interwar semis
Simple pitched roofs on concrete tile through most of the town. The straightforward end of the job.
Roofs like yours
Jobs on the kind of roof Broadstairs has
How a job runs
Four stages, in order
Assessment
Roof pitch, orientation, shading, structure and the state of the existing electrical installation. All four matter, and the last one is the one that catches people out.
Design and quote
A layout for your roof with the panel and inverter specified, the expected generation stated with the assumptions behind it, and a fixed price.
Installation
Scaffold, mounting, panels, then the electrical work. Most domestic installs are done inside a few days.
Certification and handover
Testing, commissioning, MCS certificate, and a walk through of the monitoring and the shutdown procedure before we leave.
Questions from Broadstairs
Asked here more than elsewhere
My bungalow roof is small. Is it worth doing?
Usually. A bungalow has a lower electricity load than a large house as well as a smaller roof, and a modest array often covers a good share of it. The survey gives you the number rather than an opinion.
We get a lot of wind up here. Will the panels stay on?
Yes, if the mounting is specified for the site. Wind uplift is a calculation based on exposure, roof height and pitch, and on the cliff top it changes the fixings. It is part of the design, not an afterthought.
Can you do the roof of a garage or an outbuilding instead?
Often that is the better roof. Lower, easier to work on, and less visible. The run back to the house is what needs pricing.
Nearby
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Get a price
Solar in Broadstairs,
priced for your roof
A postcode and a rough idea of the job is enough. You get a straight answer from the people who would do the work, not a sales call.