The Fixed Sun Co. · Solar with a floor under it · Bellwood Terrace & the Dunmoor hills · Est. 2009
Every array we sell carries a number, and the number is guaranteed: ninety-five percent of the modelled year, or the difference is ours.
Modelled before sold
Drone-flown, tree-traced, run against your own twelve bills — and the model goes in the contract beside the price. An array nobody modelled is a promise nobody can check, and we do not sell those.
String or micro, honestly
One clean plane gets a string inverter and a readable diagram; shade gets micros panel by panel. Both quoted off the same model, and the roof — not the inventory — makes the call.
Batteries with a floor too
Storage sized to the outage you actually have, carried through the ten-year workmanship warranty, and dispatched so the house buys nothing at the expensive hours. The floor applies to the kilowatt-hours; the quiet applies to everything.
Services & rates
The priced creed
Cash prices from last quarter’s Terrace and hills installs — permits, interconnection and the ten-year workmanship warranty inside the number, the 30% federal credit still to come off it. Every row carries the same first paragraph the manifesto above carries; that is what makes it a creed and not a campaign.
7 kW rooftop · string inverter$17,000 installed
28 panels, one serviceable part on the garage wall, diagram laminated for the electrician of 2035
10 kW rooftop · microinverters$25,600 installed
Panel-by-panel conversion where the Dunmoor shade argues for it
16 kW ground mount + 27 kWh storage$52,800 installed
Frost-footed piers, winter tilt, two LFP cabinets and the named-circuit transfer scheme
Battery retrofit, 13.5 kWh$12,400 installed
Cabinet, load subpanel, garage wall — February load, not July’s
Second-opinion shade auditfree
Any quote, any installer: the model checked, the payback line recomputed
The March guarantee readingincluded
Production against model, wash, torque audit — every year, for ten
The three paragraphs
What the model page shows you
One page, three numbers: the modelled year to the kilowatt-hour, the 95% floor it is guaranteed against, and the payback year computed from your own bills. Under them, the shade map and the month-by-month bars — so the model, the floor and the price can be read in one sitting, which is the entire point of putting them on one page.
How it goes
Verdict to guarantee
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Week 1
The verdict visit
Drone, compass, twelve bills, and an hour on the roof structure. The verdict is written and yours either way: the honest array, string or micro, the modelled year to the kilowatt-hour — or the honest no, which we hand out about one survey in seven.
Weeks 2–4
Filed & scheduled
Permit set, interconnection, the utility’s queue. The guarantee paragraph rides above the price from the first draft to the signed copy; the milestone dates ride between the two signatures you make all project.
Weeks 5–6
Two days on the roof
Flashed, railed, torqued to written values, photographed against the model page before the ladder comes down. Batteries the second day: cabinet set, transfer scheme proven, outage drill run with you watching the app.
Every March
The reading
Year against model, line by line, with the monitoring app in your hand and ours. Over the floor and we shake hands and wash the glass; under it and the credit posts at your net-metering rate before the icicles melt.
2025 — 2026, the Terrace & the hills
Roofs under the creed
Six of the thirty-seven arrays Fixed Sun commissioned last season, photographed at interconnection with the model page in the crew van. Every one of them will be read aloud against its model in March — the shop posts the readings by the door, hits and all.
Before the verdict
The five the creed gets asked
Sixteen years of kitchen tables have produced five questions, and the creed has an answer for each that costs us nothing to print. The shop line answers the rest, seven to five, Terrace time.
Has the guarantee ever actually paid out?
Four times in sixteen years, and every March reading since has been the most boring hour of those customers’ year — which is the design. Three payouts were our sizing errors and were refixed with hardware; one was an inverter that failed in month nine, swapped same-week under the workmanship warranty, and the guarantee covered the lost production in between.
What if the weather itself is the problem?
The model already contains the weather — sixteen years of local production data, month by month, storm weeks included. A hard year lands under the floor maybe one year in seven, and the credit posts exactly as written. The guarantee is underwritten by arithmetic and a reserve, not by fine print about act-of-god.
Do you sell batteries to everyone?
No — about one roof in three has an outage list worth carrying, and we say so at the verdict. A battery that never discharges is a very expensive paperweight; a battery that carries the well pump through a February night is the best money in the house. The verdict visit prices both honestly.
Can I keep my existing array and buy the guarantee?
The floor only attaches to arrays we model and build — that is what makes it a number instead of a hope. What we can do for an existing system is the second-opinion audit: the model rebuilt, the payback recomputed, and a straight answer about whether the array you own is earning what you were told it would.
What happens if Fixed Sun is not around in year nine?
The guarantee is a line in your contract with your name on it, backed by a reserve held at the Terrace credit union — not a promise that depends on our letterhead. The monitoring platform is manufacturer-standard, any licensed electrician can read the diagram on your garage wall, and the March reading runs the same whether we are twenty or forty years old.
The contract arrived with the guarantee paragraph above the price, and I thought it was marketing until the second March — when the reading came in at 93.8% of model after the hail fortnight and a credit for the difference appeared on my April statement without me asking. Sixteen years they have run this. It is not marketing; it is bookkeeping.
Our cherry tree predates the house and three installers wanted it gone. Fixed Sun modelled it panel by panel, put micros on the east plane, and the cherry shades the breakfast room while the array beats its model. The outage drill in week six was the first time I have ever watched a power cut happen on purpose.
I asked for the second-opinion audit on a quote I already had, expecting a hard sell. Instead: two pages showing the other outfit had sized a June number for a December roof, and a recommendation to call them back and ask for the model. We built with Fixed Sun in the end, but the free audit is the reason.
Verdict visits free across the Terrace & the hills · (555) 022-7184 · creed@thefixedsun.example
Get the paragraph with your roof’s name in it
Send the address and a recent bill. The verdict visit is free, the model page takes three business days, and the priced creed that follows is the same document every customer since 2009 has signed — paragraph above price, floor under the year. creed@thefixedsun.example