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What a solar installation looks like on the kind of housing you actually find in Birmingham.

Illustrative example of a solar installation on a Birmingham home, shown before, during and after
BeforeDuringAfter

Illustrative example. This is not a job carried out by Birmingham Solar Panels — we are a quote service, not an installer. It is shown to explain what the work involves on housing typical of Birmingham, and no customer, address, system size or generation figure is attached to it.

Before

A bare pitched roof on the kind of property that makes up much of Birmingham's housing — interwar and post-war semis, Victorian terraces in the inner ring, and a big stock of 1960s-80s estates. Before anything is designed, the installer is looking at covering and condition, rafter spacing, the state of the flashings, how scaffolding will go up, and where the cable run to the consumer unit will go.

During

Scaffolding first, then roof anchors fixed into the rafters and sealed, rails across the anchors, and panels clamped to the rails as the array builds up the slope. The covering is dressed back around each fixing as they go. On Birmingham's concrete interlocking tile on the post-war stock, clay plain tile and slate on the older terraces, this is the stage where an installer who works on that covering regularly earns their money.

After

The completed array, scaffolding down, everything made good. What you cannot see in the photograph is the part that matters most afterwards: commissioning, the grid notification to National Grid Electricity Distribution (West Midlands), the MCS certificate, the monitoring set up and working, and the handover pack.

What we won't put on this page

A system size, a panel count, an annual generation figure, a price or a named customer. There is no job record behind an illustrative example, so any of those numbers would be invented. The figures worth having are the ones in your own quotation, calculated for your own roof.

Actual generation, savings and export income depend on the system size, roof orientation and shading, your electricity use and tariff, battery usage, weather and future energy prices. Figures are estimates, not guarantees.

Common questions

Is this a job you carried out?
No. It is an illustrative example of typical solar work on housing of this kind. We are a quote service, not an installer.
Can I see work by the installer you'd match me with?
Ask them directly when they get in touch — most are happy to show recent jobs in your area.
Why no system size or generation figure?
Because there is no job record behind an illustrative example, so any figure would be invented. Your own quotation will carry an MCS performance estimate for your roof.
What does the quote cost?
Nothing, and there is no obligation. The installer provides a free design and written quotation.

Actual generation, savings and export income depend on the system size, roof orientation and shading, your electricity use and tariff, battery usage, weather and future energy prices. Figures are estimates, not guarantees.

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