by Karl Dyson | Sep 20, 2026 | DIY Solar News
Storage heaters and Economy 7 are common in properties without gas central heating — a lot of flats, older houses, and properties that have never been converted to gas. If you have storage heaters you already understand peak versus off-peak. Solar fits into this...
by Karl Dyson | Sep 18, 2026 | DIY Solar News
Shared ownership is common enough in the UK that this comes up regularly. You own a share of the property and a housing association owns the rest. The consent position is leasehold, and the practical process is similar to any other leasehold application — with some...
by Karl Dyson | Sep 16, 2026 | DIY Solar News
This comes from people who want more generation but are not sure how to achieve it. Paralleling panels is technically possible but rarely the right approach for a UK plug-in solar system. What paralleling does electrically Connecting two solar panels in parallel means...
by Karl Dyson | Sep 14, 2026 | DIY Solar News
Solar in winter gets a bad reputation, and some of it is deserved. December in the UK is not June. But dismissing winter generation entirely misses the picture — the shoulder months of March, April, September, and October contribute meaningfully to annual output. Here...
by Karl Dyson | Sep 12, 2026 | DIY Solar News
When people ask this, they usually want to know two things: does it add to the sale price, and do I have to leave it? The answers are: sometimes, and no. Is plug-in solar a fixture? No. Legal fixtures are items permanently attached to the property that pass to the new...
