About a year ago we had a Solar Panel Salesman at the house.
Two hours of our lives later and we were given a quote of over £12,000 to fit a solar system. This seemed ridiculously excessive.
We gave up on the idea as clearly this was too much money to spend with not enough reward.
Fast forward to last month and we were in Ikea in Glasgow. They now have a company onsite who give you a quote in about 10-15 minutes. By taking your postcode and looking at your house on Google Earth, they can then give you an approximation of how many solar panels your roof may take.
As long your roof can support a minimum of 12 panels, then they can fit a system for you.
The quote we were given - £3700. Some difference from the last quote we had!
If you go ahead with the system, you pay them £100 upfront for them to come out and do a physical survey of your property. If all is good, then this £100 goes towards the cost of your quote.
Seems like a good idea.
Now, many of you will be thinking, will this be of any benefit to me - only you can make that choice.
However, you have to consider how much will the cost of electricity rise by in the next 10-20 years - the lifetime of your solar panels?
