INDEX Solar Fixing — The Complete Guide: Choosing a Mounting System for Solar Panels

INDEX Solar Fixing is a free online tool from INDEX Fixing Systems that guides the user through a structured choice of mounting system for solar panels. It runs in the browser, with no download, in six languages.

INDEX Solar Fixing — Solar Panel Mounting Selector

INDEX Fixing Systems

Online tool for selecting the mounting system for solar panels by roof type and panel size.

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What you get

Tiled roofs — flat, mixed, Arabic and slate tiles.
Flat roofs — concrete, deck, landscaped and gravel.
Sheeting — corrugated sheet, sandwich panel and tile-imitation sheet.
Panel sizes — height 1.8 to 2.3 m, width 1.0 to 1.15 m and thickness 30, 35 or 40 mm.
Result — the suitable mounting system from INDEX products.

What to know

Choosing panel fixings is a point where a mistake is expensive: water ingress through the roof, or failure under wind load. The tool turns the choice into a structured process, but it is based on INDEX mounting systems only and does not replace an engineer’s check of the roof’s load-bearing capacity and of wind loads to the relevant standard.

Related tools

To estimate the output and economics of a solar system — SAM. For anchors in concrete, for example in the bases of a flat-roof system — INDEXcal. For chemical adhesive quantities — INDEXmor.