A plug-in solar device is designed to be installed by anyone. The rules draw the line at your building's wiring, and for a lot of homes that line falls before the panel is even up.
Four questions. If your answers show you cannot lawfully proceed, we will tell you and stop.
All three come from the product specification itself, not from anyone trying to sell you labour.
Put the plug and socket outside the building and the socket has to be IP55 rated or better. Few houses already have one.
Swapping the protective device on the circuit is not householder work, and the specification says so in terms.
Users are told not to connect to damaged or degraded sockets, and to get one inspected where its condition or suitability is in doubt.
Registering with the network operator. Who you are, an email address, where the device is, inside 28 days, and no invoice at the end of it.
The form above stops if you pick a timber surface. That is deliberate and it costs us enquiries.
Since 27 August 2026 the permitted development right for solar equipment excludes plug-in solar fixed to wooden walls, balconies and timber cladding. A great many British balconies are timber or timber clad, and the whole market advertises these as balcony solar.
If we took that enquiry, an electrician would drive out to quote for work that would need a planning application for a device costing a few hundred pounds. Nobody wins. So the form says so at the first question, before you have given us anything.