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This guide gives flat roofs the attention most solar advice does not. The guides start with them, then cover the house, the rules, the money and the firm.
Checked against its sources on 3 November 2026. Published by SEO Dons; we do not supply or install solar.
Where to start
If your house has a flat roof anywhere, on a garage, a back extension or a dormer, measure it first: it is often the one surface you can point wherever you like. If the only roof is pitched, its direction decides most things, and the flat-or-pitched page shows how much an east or west slope gives up against south. Either way, have the roof covering looked at before anyone quotes, because re-roofing under panels costs twice.
Some pages are about Runcorn in particular: the New Town homes page traces the estates from Halton Brook to Windmill Hill and what their roofs mean for panels, and Runcorn in numbers gathers the census, council tax, energy-rating and solar figures for the town. Others answer questions any flat-roof owner has, with Runcorn's sun and Runcorn's rules.
Then the money: the regional price per kW is the yardstick for any quote, and the first-year sums show what the system might be worth with every assumption stated. Last, check the firms on the public registers and keep the paperwork when the job is done.
Behind the guides sit two things you can use directly. The flat-roof planner lays out rows or pairs for your own measurements and checks them against the 0.6 m limit. The PVGIS figures for Runcorn behind every output on the site barely change across the town, by well under 1% from the Old Town to Sandymoor, so the planner's numbers hold wherever your roof is.
Flat roofs
- Flat-roof planner
Rows or east-west pairs, the 0.6 m limit, output for Runcorn. - Flat or pitched?
What each makes per panel and per roof. - Extensions, garages and dormers
Small flat roofs that can rescue a system. - Measuring a flat roof
Width, depth and what breaks the roof up. - Winter sun and row spacing
How far apart rows go, by tilt and date. - Roof coverings before solar
Felt, asphalt, membranes, tiles: check first.
Homes and rules
Money and choosing
- Costs
Regional prices for pitched and flat roofs. - Is it worth it?
A first year for four roofs. - Grants and loans
The Warm Homes: Local Grant and loan. - Batteries and storage
Daily output and sizing. - Grid connection
G98, G99 and what to keep. - Finding a good installer
Registers, the survey, the quote. - Caring for your panels
Monitoring, frames, ballast, cleaning.
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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.