{"id":1949,"date":"2012-09-14T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2017-04-28T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T05:03:42","slug":"the-3-types-of-solar-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/the-3-types-of-solar-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 Types Of Solar Installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the 3 types of solar installer that you&#8217;ll find in the Australian Market. Learn which ones to avoid, and the tricks the bad &#8216;uns will pull to get your business.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"The Three Types of Solar Installation Company\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LNiXVys9b6E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Or if you don&#8217;t want to watch the video, here&#8217;s a transcript for your reading pleasure.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hi! I\u2019m Finn Peacock, founder of SolarQuotes.com.au. Over the last 4 years I\u2019ve noticed there are 3 distinct types of solar installation company in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s go through them;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number 1: The super expensive guys.<\/strong> I don\u2019t know how they get away with it but they\u2019re still going after 4 years. This breed of solar installer will\u00a0come to\u00a0your house, often via a door knocking campaign. They often prey on older couples. When they get into your front room they will\u00a0insist that you are\u00a0 there and your spouse is there. \u00a0Why?\u00a0Because they want you to sign you on the dotted line, there and then before you get the chance to get another quote. They also don&#8217;t want you to use the excuse &#8220;I&#8217;ll talk it over with my other half&#8221;. Proper old-school hard sell tactics.<\/p>\n<p>They start at a insanely high price. \u00a0We could be talking $20,000 for a system that others sell for $4,000. And then they\u2019ll come up with all sorts of other old school sales techniques:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201coh if put you a sign on your fence, we&#8217;ll give you 5 grand off, oh I&#8217;ll call my boss up, oh yeah great deal we&#8217;ll get it down, we&#8217;ll get it down from 20 grand to 10 grand\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So they will go from an insanely high price to a ridiculously high price. \u00a0Then they&#8217;ll hope against hope that you don\u2019t get anymore quotes so you don\u2019t know what the going rate for a solar system is. One way they\u2019ll try and do that sometimes is, they\u2019ll try and get you to\u00a0waive your cooling off period! Disgusting! They\u2019ll use an excuse like&#8230; \u201coh you get a quicker install if you don\u2019t have a cooling off period\u201d. \u00a0 Obviously they don\u2019t want you to have 10 days to go and find out that the price they\u2019re offering is insanely expensive. They just want you to sign you up there and then. My advice: don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n<p>They best way to insure yourself against that is to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/quote\">get 3 quotes<\/a>\u00a0so you always have prices to compare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number 2: The super cheap mobs.<\/strong>\u00a0These guys are ridiculously cheap. So cheap, in fact, that if you know the cost of solar components and the cost of a good quality solar installation, you look at their prices and scratch your head and you go&#8230; &#8220;how on earth do they install a solar system for\u00a0that price?&#8221;. \u00a0They almost certainly have to be cutting corners in the quality of the panels, the quality of the inverter, the quality of the racking, the quality of the isolators and the quality of the install. When was the last time you bought the absolute cheapest thing on the market, and it was good quality and lasted the\u00a0distance? It just doesn\u2019t happen. I\u00a0would strongly advise against the really cheap mobs. Remember a solar system can carry very high DC voltages which, as a Chartered Electrical Engineer, I know can be very dangerous if not installed properly, with top quality hardware. Trust me, you don&#8217;t want a rushed solar install on your roof or cheap high\u00a0voltage electrical gear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number 3: The happy medium.<\/strong>\u00a0The third type of solar installation company, the guys I\u2019ve tried really hard to get on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\">SolarQuotes.com.au<\/a>,\u00a0are what I call the\u00a0happy medium. They will use only panels that they trust, only use inverters that they trust and they\u2019ll take a lot of pride in the installation. \u00a0They\u2019ll do that because they\u2019ve got reputations to uphold. And these guys, whilst unlikely to be the cheapest, will still be keenly priced because the solar market has actually gone from being a really high margin business 3 or 4 years ago to being really quite cut throat. Plus if they\u2019re on SolarQuotes.com.au they are usually\u00a0competing with another two companies, so they&#8217;ve got to\u00a0be keenly priced to be in the game!<\/p>\n<p>But generally, these installers won\u2019t let a good\u00a0price get in the way of a good quality system.\u00a0This &#8216;happy medium&#8217; is the type of installer\u00a0that I think we&#8217;re doing a pretty good job of recruiting to SolarQuotes.com.au.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So those are the three types of companies, you&#8217;ve got the super expensive mobs, they&#8217;re just going to rip you off.\u00a0You&#8217;ve got the super cheap mobs, who are just as bad because you&#8217;re probably going to\u00a0end up with a\u00a0system that doesn\u2019t do the job, last the distance or even worse than that &#8211; is usafe.<\/p>\n<p>And then you\u2019ve got the guys that are the happy medium, and those are the guys that I&#8217;ve been trying, for the last four years, to recruit to SolarQuotes.com.au. And judging from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/testimonials.html\">feedback<\/a> that I\u2019m getting, I think we\u2019re doing alright.<\/p>\n<p>So avoid the first two, go for the happy medium. Don\u2019t get ripped off by the super expensive guys, don\u2019t get a worthless system, pay a little\u00a0more, a few hundred dollars more and get a good quality system installed by a company that really cares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the 3 types of solar installer that you&#8217;ll find in the Australian Market. Learn which ones to avoid, and the tricks the bad &#8216;uns will pull to get your business. 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