Solar panel glare and house sale

chris_m

ValHaller wrote: »

Moving the panels a few degrees is not going to alleviate the problem. It is just going to change the time of year for which there is a problem.

And/or the house for which there is a problem - a slight tweak could have the glare hitting the OP's neighbours' house instead.

poppysarah

What time of day is it a problem?

chickaroonee

The sun is low in the sky at the moment (seen the walkie talkie in the news?) and I bet this glare changes as it gets lower in the run up to the solstice. I wouldn't mention. The buyers are probably at work during the day anyway!

markw999

Thanks for the replies everyone. We're not saying anything for the moment. I'm sure everyone's right about the problem changing during the year and we'll see if it gets better over the next couple of weeks.

markw999

Sarah, the reflection is bad mid-afternoon and is getting earlier each day as the sun moves round. I take chickarooni's point that the buyers are likely to be at work most of the time and won't necessarily care. It's something I only get to "enjoy" on the weekends myself and it's my wife seeing it every day.

DRP

A few weeks ago i found out that when sitting in her front room at cetain times, my neighbour across the street is "blinded" by the reflection from my front windows...

I'm not considering doing anything about it (and when she mentioned it, she wasn't suggesting that I rectify this).

I would consider the OP's dilemma as similar, really. Nothing to worry too much about.

makeyourdaddyproud

ValHaller wrote: »

Moving the panels a few degrees is not going to alleviate the problem. It is just going to change the time of year for which there is a problem. In a few weeks time, the problem will go away until next year until the same number of days after the winter solstice as we are currently before the solstice.

I have to disagree.

There are too many factors which would influence the likelyhood of receiving the glare. It also depends on the distance of the solar house from the OP's: elevating the panels +/- just one degree could send the arc many meters away from his house, maybe into the sky.

Some factors are elevation, angle, distance, time of year, temperature etc so it is entirely possible to work out how to choose an angle away from houses depending on the distance.