Ask about solar for your Wirral home

Solar Panels Wirral is an independent guide, not an installer. Use this form to ask about your roof, a quote you have been given, planning in a conservation area or the city region's schemes.

• Sending an enquiry costs nothing and does not commit you to anything.
• We reply by email; nobody will turn up at your door because you wrote to us.
• Whatever firm you deal with in the end, check it on the MCS and consumer code registers first: the guide to choosing an installer shows how.

It helps us answer well if you tell us roughly which way your roof faces, whether the house is in a conservation area, and whether you already have a quote. The more specific the question, the more useful the reply.

Questions people send us

• "Our house in Hoylake faces the sea. Are the panels in this quote suitable for salt air?"
• "We live in Oxton Village. Can panels go on the front roof, or only the back?"
• "Two quotes for a 4 kW system differ by a lot. What explains the gap?"
• "We are on a low income in a draughty terrace in Birkenhead. Could the Warm Homes: Local Grant cover panels?"
• "Is it worth adding a battery to the panels we had fitted last year?"

Before you write: three things worth knowing

First, roof direction matters more than postcode. Use the peninsula map to see your area's figures, then knock about a fifth off for an east or west roof. Second, the planning answer for most Wirral houses is simple, but not in Port Sunlight, Bromborough Pool or on a wall facing the road in a conservation area; our planning page sets it out. Third, nobody can tell you a fair price without seeing the job, but the government's average cost per kW, in the cost guide, lets you spot a quote that is far out of line.

These are examples of the kind of question this page is for, not real messages. Whatever you ask, we will answer from the same sources this guide uses, and point you to the page or the official body that can settle it, whether that is Wirral Council, the Combined Authority, SP Energy Networks or the MCS register.