Ask about solar on your Runcorn home

Despite the name, this site is an independent guide and fits nothing. Use this page to ask about your roof, flat or pitched, a quote you have, or the rules that apply.

• Free, and you are under no obligation.
• We reply by email only; no calls, no visits.
• We pass nothing to installers. If you go ahead, you choose and check the firm; finding a good installer shows how.

Got a flat roof? Try the planner

The flat-roof planner shows how many panels fit, how far apart the rows go, whether the frames stay under the 0.6 m limit and what they would make in Runcorn. Send its result with your question if you want a second view.

Useful details

The kind of house and when it was built; whether the roof is pitched or flat and which way it faces; anything that shades it. For a quote: the price, the panels, inverter and mounting system, the size in kW, the predicted output and the payment terms.

Typical questions

• Our extension roof is 4 m by 3 m. Is it worth adding panels to the main roof system?
• The installer wants to tilt the flat-roof panels at 30 degrees. Will that break the 0.6 m limit?
• Is £6,500 fair for 3.5 kW on a semi in Windmill Hill?
• The quote says the network operator must approve the system first. Is that normal with a battery?

These show the kind of question this page is for. Replies use the same sources as the site, including the government's 2025/26 solar PV cost data and the planning order as amended on 27 August 2026, as read on 3 November 2026.

What we do and do not do

We do not sell, recommend a firm or hand details on to anyone. We do say plainly if a quote looks out of line with the averages, if its layout or output seems hard to square with your roof, or if something is missing, and point you to the registers to check any firm yourself.