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Your property

What an installer would want to know before they price anything. Guesses are fine; they verify on site.

About your home

Three quick ones. Skip any you're unsure about.

What sort of home is it?
Roughly when was it built?

A decade is close enough. It drives what we say about insulation.

What are the walls made of?

Anything you leave blank is marked as our assumption in your report, not as your answer.

Who signs off

Two quick ones that decide whose yes an installer needs before they can start.

Do you own this home, or do you rent it?

It changes who has to sign off before anything goes on the roof. Renting is not a dead end; it just needs the owner's yes first.

What sort of site is it on?

Strata and big shared-supply sites need approvals a freestanding house does not.

What's already there

So we model what you'd be adding, not what you already own.

Do you already have solar panels?
Do you already have a home battery?
Is the home connected to gas?

Your roof

Roof type, which way the good side faces, and what shades it.

Tell us about your roof

Roof type and orientation drive system sizing + installation complexity. Don't stress about exact numbers — your installer will verify on-site.

Roof type
Which orientation gets the most sun?

In Perth, north-facing rooftops produce ~10-20% more energy than east/west. South-facing is workable with a larger system.

Your electrics

Four questions that decide how much work the connection side needs.

Is your home single phase or three phase?
What sort of meter do you have?
Is there spare space in or beside your switchboard?

It's on the front of your switchboard — a photo later works too.

Roughly how old is your switchboard?

Age changes whether it needs upgrading; the question above is about room on it. Guess if you have to.

Where things would go

Roughly the wall space a battery needs. Anything off limits goes in the box below.

How much wall it needs

Roughly the wall space to keep free. Sizes are the largest of the units we see in the market, so anything smaller also fits.

A home batteryabout 63 cm wide × 111 cm tall, plus 15 cm either side
An inverterabout 53 cm wide × 60 cm tall, plus 15 cm either side

Typical clearance zone — installer confirms on site.

Where things can and cannot go

Rough distances — your best guess

A rough guess is fine; steps count. Your installer verifies everything on site.

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Photos of the install spots

Four quick shots. Each one is optional, and each has two questions you can answer instead if a photo is awkward.

We use an AI service (Claude, by Anthropic) to read your photos and flag possible obstacles for your installer — for example a gas meter near a wall. The photo is processed on servers in the United States and is not stored by the AI service. You can turn this off and answer a short checklist instead.

Your switchboard

One photo of the whole board with the door open, if it opens safely.

Shared with the installers you are matched with.

Skipping this marks the placement section of your report as not assessed, and installers may need a site visit before quoting.

Is there clear wall space beside the switchboard?
Is it under cover?

Your meter box

One photo showing the meter and the box it sits in.

Shared with the installers you are matched with.

Skipping this marks the placement section of your report as not assessed, and installers may need a site visit before quoting.

Is the meter box easy to get to from the street?
Is it shared with another property?

The wall or spot for the battery

Stand back far enough to show the wall and what is on either side of it.

Shared with the installers you are matched with.

Skipping this marks the placement section of your report as not assessed, and installers may need a site visit before quoting.

Is there a gas meter or hot-water unit within about a metre?
Is there a window or door within about half a metre?

Your roof

From the street is fine. Nobody needs to go up there.

Shared with the installers you are matched with.

Skipping this marks the placement section of your report as not assessed, and installers may need a site visit before quoting.

Is your roof one storey or two?
Any large trees shading it most of the day?

Anything else

Optional. Access, timing, a preference, something odd about the place — whatever you would say if they were standing there.

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