I got tired of watching good people buy bad systems.

I have spent eight years on roofs and switchboards across the Mid North Coast, and installed for around 620 local customers in that time. I have seen what a good system looks like at year five, and I have been called out to fix what the cheap ones look like at year two.

The pattern is boring and consistent. The bad outcomes are almost never about the brand on the panel. They are about a design that ignored the household, a quote that hid the switchboard work, or a warranty nobody will honour because the company that sold it no longer answers the phone.

So this site does the thing the industry avoids. It explains the trade-offs. It tells you when a battery is not worth it, when a cheaper quote is the more expensive decision, and when you should do nothing this year and revisit next winter.

If that costs me a sale, it was not a sale worth having.