Malvern is a short run east from Ledbury and one of the more interesting places we work, because the housing and the terrain both ask questions that a flat estate roof does not.
Much of Great Malvern is Victorian and Edwardian, built up the eastern flank of the hills, and those properties tend to have complicated roofs: multiple pitches, gables, dormers, chimneys and valleys, often in slate. A roof like that rarely has one big clean slope to fill. It has several smaller usable areas facing different ways, which is workable but has to be surveyed properly rather than estimated from the pavement or off an aerial photograph.
The slope matters too. Building up the east flank of the hills means a lot of properties here face east, and east facing solar is better than its reputation. It generates earlier in the day, which suits a household that uses power in the morning, and paired with a battery it works perfectly well. It is not the same answer as a south facing roof and we will not pretend it is, but writing it off is wrong. Steep ground also affects access and scaffolding, and that gets settled before the quote goes out rather than on the morning of the fit.
Much of the hill ground is a protected landscape and parts of the town sit in a conservation area, so the planning position is worth establishing early on the older properties.
Everything below is available across Malvern and the surrounding parishes. Every quote starts with a free site survey.
Full solar PV systems for homes, farms and commercial sites.
Store what you generate and use it after dark.
Annual health checks, live monitoring and fault finding.
Everything from a domestic rewire to a full factory installation.
Malvern is one of sixteen places we cover for solar and battery work. These are the nearest.