Solar Panel Installer Runcorn, an independent guide › About
About this guide
Solar Panel Installer Runcorn is not an installer. It is an independent guide from SEO-DONS LTD for Runcorn households weighing up solar, with particular attention to the flat roofs that many homes in the town have somewhere.
Checked against its sources on 3 November 2026. Published by SEO Dons; we do not supply or install solar.
The publisher
Published by SEO-DONS LTD (company no. 16766013), 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ. Its details are on the Companies House register. SEO Dons researches and writes the pages.
About the name
The address matches what people search for when they are ready to get solar in Runcorn. At that moment they need to know what their roof can take and how to judge a quote and a firm, so that is what the site sets out. The words "an independent guide" sit with the name on every page. The site does not supply, survey or install anything.
Why flat roofs
Most solar advice assumes a pitched roof. Runcorn has plenty of those, but it also has flat-roofed extensions, garages and dormers, and homes where a flat roof is the only sunny surface. Flat roofs raise different questions: how steeply to tilt the panels, how far apart the rows go, how high the frames may stand, how heavy the ballast is. The flat-roof planner answers the first three with your own measurements; the survey answers the last.
Why Runcorn
Runcorn is an unusual town to write about. Nearly four in ten of its homes went up in the New Town years between 1965 and 1982, around a busway built for buses alone, and a large share are still rented from social landlords. That makes questions of permission, landlords and the condition of fifty-year-old roofs as important here as questions of sunshine. The guides try to answer those as plainly as the output figures.
What it does not do
- Recommend, rank or rate installers.
- Promise savings or a payback date.
- Speak for Halton Borough Council, the city region or any scheme.
Who is behind it
SEO-DONS LTD runs the site. It has no advertising and no sponsorship.
How the planner reaches its answer
For south-facing rows, the planner works out how long a shadow each row casts at midday on the date you choose, from midwinter to the spring equinox, and spaces the rows so the next one stays in sunlight from then on. For east-west pairs it sets the panels back to back with a 0.4 m walkway between pairs. Either way it keeps 0.4 m clear of the roof edges, adds 0.1 m for the frame under each panel's raised edge, and warns if the result would stand more than 0.6 m above the roof. The panel count is then multiplied by PVGIS output for Runcorn at that tilt. It is a first sketch to take to an installer, who still has to check the roof's strength and covering.
Checking the figures
Each page names its sources and the date they were read; primary sources come first. Our own working, such as the planner's layouts and the first-year sums, is explained on figures and sources.
Writing to us
The form on each page reaches SEO-DONS LTD and is answered by email. Details are not sold or shared. If you find a mistake, tell us and we will check it and correct the page.
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Where the figures come from
A flat roof, a quote, or a question about your Runcorn home?
Tell us about the roof or the quote, with your Runcorn postcode. Your message goes to SEO-DONS LTD, the company behind this independent guide, and the reply comes by email. Asking is free and commits you to nothing.
What happens next
- Fill in the form; your postcode tells us which part of Runcorn you are in.
- We look at what you sent and reply by email with the figures and sources that fit.
- Whether you go ahead, and with which firm, is up to you.