{"id":9156,"date":"2017-02-20T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=9156"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T05:12:19","slug":"solar-panel-maintenance-often-inspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-panel-maintenance-often-inspected\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Panel Maintenance: How often should they be inspected?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some defects found when inspecting badly installed solar. If you suspect your system was shoddily installed, you should book an inspection ASAP. But how often should your system be maintained\/inspected if you used a reputable installer?<\/p><\/div>\n

Is getting your panels inspected worth the expense? In the end, it comes down to how safe you really consider your rooftop solar to be.<\/p>\n

How Safe is Rooftop Solar?<\/h2>\n

If you ever drive or ride in a car of your own free will, then it probably makes sense for you to consider rooftop solar safe.<\/p>\n

Each year, the average Australian has about a\u00a01 in 20,000<\/a> chance of dying in a car accident.\u00a0But as far as I am aware, no one in Australia has ever died from a faulty solar system.\u00a0Oh, sure, some installers may have fallen off roofs and some do-it-yourselfers may have managed to electrofry themselves, but I don’t believe anyone has ever died as the result of a fault in an installed system.<\/p>\n

This is a pretty impressive result given the number of shonky installers Australia used to have (and, unfortunately, in some areas, still has).<\/p>\n

At the start of this year around 17.2% of Australian households had rooftop solar1<\/a><\/sup>. This made for a grand total of over\u00a01.6 million<\/a> systems. On average, each home has had solar for 4.8 years, which comes to a total of over 7.7 million years without a fatality and that’s not bad.<\/p>\n

Safety Issues To Consider<\/h2>\n

Unfortunately, rooftop solar is not perfectly safe.\u00a0Anything with live current running through it can be dangerous if damaged or defective and solar systems are no exception.\u00a0Fires have resulted from faults and, while most have been small, some have resulted in whole buildings being burned to bits.<\/p>\n

While solar systems have no moving parts to wear out, problems that can potentially occur include:<\/p>\n