Areas we cover · North East · Durham
Solar panels in Durham — installed, repaired and serviced by one team
In the city and across County Durham — Gilesgate, Newton Hall and Framwellgate Moor, out to Chester-le-Street, Consett, Stanley, Spennymoor and Bishop Auckland — our own engineers install solar PV and battery systems, and repair and service systems fitted by any installer. We install our own systems and repair everyone else’s, so we know exactly how they fail.
Mon–Fri 9:00am–5:00pm · Clear written quote before any work starts
Talk to us about solar, batteries or repairs.
Call 0800 156 0191, Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm, or send us a message through our contact page.
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What we do in Durham
Installs, repairs and servicing across County Durham.
Whether the system is two years old or fifteen, you deal with our own engineers and get a clear written quote.
Solar panel installation in Durham
New solar PV, with or without a battery, surveyed and fitted by our own MCS certified engineers.
Solar panel repair in Durham
We find out why the system has stopped or dropped, and put it right, whoever fitted it.
Inverter repair in Durham
Inverters showing a fault code, tripping out or sitting dead on the wall. Same-week repair or replacement on SolarEdge, SMA, Fronius, Growatt, Solis, SolaX and other makes.
Servicing and battery storage in Durham
A yearly health check of the panels, inverter, isolators and wiring, and storage added to an existing array or fitted with new panels. See what a solar battery costs.
Pigeons nesting under the panels on a Durham terrace? See solar panel cleaning and solar panel bird proofing. Not sure what the fault is? Start with solar panel repair. Useful guides: why solar panels stop working, our solar panel maintenance checklist and how long solar inverters last.
Areas of Durham we cover
Where we work in and around Durham.
Our engineers work across DH1 in the city — Gilesgate, Belmont, Newton Hall, Framwellgate Moor, Neville’s Cross and Crossgate — DH2 and DH3 through Chester-le-Street and Birtley, DH6 and DH7 out to Bowburn, Coxhoe, Sherburn, Brandon, Ushaw Moor, Langley Park and Sacriston, DH8 and DH9 up to Consett and Stanley, and DL14 to DL17 across Bishop Auckland, Crook, Spennymoor and Ferryhill. If your village isn’t listed, tell us the postcode and we’ll confirm cover.
- Gilesgate
- Belmont
- Newton Hall
- Framwellgate Moor
- Neville’s Cross
- Bowburn
- Coxhoe
- Sherburn
- Brandon
- Ushaw Moor
- Langley Park
- Sacriston
- Chester-le-Street
- Birtley
- Consett
- Stanley
- Lanchester
- Spennymoor
- Bishop Auckland
- Crook
- Ferryhill
- Newton Aycliffe
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Solar in Durham
1,700 County Durham homes are getting solar and insulation.
In July 2025 believe housing, the county’s largest social landlord, announced a £15.6 million programme to upgrade more than 1,700 of its homes across County Durham over three years, built on £7.8 million from the Government’s Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund and matched by its own investment. The work, led by RE:GEN Group, targets homes rated below EPC band C and combines loft and cavity wall insulation, better ventilation, heating controls, energy-efficient lighting and solar panels. It follows an earlier programme that upgraded 3,477 homes, and the landlord says the aim is homes that are “warmer, healthier, and more energy-efficient.”
Plenty of privately owned homes in Durham’s former pit villages went solar in the feed-in tariff years, long before this programme, and those systems are now at the age where inverters start to fail. A service will tell you whether yours is still earning its keep; if generation has dropped or stopped altogether, inverter repair is usually the fix.
Source: Over 1,700 homes set for energy upgrades, believe housing, 3 July 2025.
Our work
Real jobs by our own engineers.
Photos from L&R jobs, each labelled with the place and year.
Why L&R
What you get from L&R in Durham.
We know County Durham roofs
Durham is two very different places for solar. In the city, stone terraces and the conservation area around the peninsula mean an installer has to check what is allowed before a single bracket goes on, and student lets need an owner who understands what the inverter is doing. Out in the county it is colliery terraces in Stanley, Consett and Ferryhill, 1950s semis in Newton Hall and Spennymoor, and exposed hillside villages up the Deerness and Wear valleys where wind and driving rain test fixings and isolators. Many of the systems we see went in during the feed-in tariff years with a single string inverter that is now ageing.
Our own engineers
The engineer who comes to your home in Durham works for us. We don’t use subcontractors.
A clear written quote
You get a clear written quote before any work starts, on a new system or on any installer’s existing one.
Questions
The things people ask before they ring.
Not answered here? Call 0800 156 0191, Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm.
Do you cover Chester-le-Street, Consett, Stanley and Bishop Auckland?
Yes. Our engineers cover Durham city and the whole of County Durham, from Chester-le-Street and Consett in the north to Bishop Auckland, Spennymoor and Newton Aycliffe in the south, and out to Peterlee and Seaham on the coast. Call 0800 156 0191 or tell us your postcode in the fault finder and we’ll confirm cover.
Will you repair a system in Durham that another company installed?
Yes. We repair and service systems fitted by any installer, including installers who are no longer trading, and we work on any make of panel, inverter or battery. See solar panel repair and inverter repair.
Can I have solar panels on a house in Durham’s conservation area?
Often, yes, but it depends on the roof and whether the building is listed. Panels on a roof slope that faces the street can need planning permission inside the conservation area, and a listed building needs consent. We check this before the survey and tell you where you stand, and every install is by our own MCS certified engineers. See solar panel installations.
Ready when you are
Solar not doing what it should in Durham? Tell us.
We’ll call you back to talk it through, and you get a clear written quote before any work starts. Mon–Fri 9:00am–5:00pm.