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Sandbox Solar

Solar energy company · Fort Collins, CO

What the listing shows you

4.9★

278 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

3%

rated 1–2★

typical in Fort Collins, 1%

Newest review held

Aug 2026

newest held review this month

Google's rating breakdown · all 278 reviews

Rated 1–2★
3%
typical in Fort Collins, 1%
Posted an update
6 months ago
the company posting to its own Google profile
Replies to reviewers
78%
of the 278 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is 2 points above the typical installer in Fort Collins. Across Colorado, 107 of the 216 installers whose breakdown Google has published carry a higher share than this one.

The percentages are Google’s own arithmetic over every review it holds, not a sample we assembled. Separately we hold 278 review texts for this company, quoted below. Google publishes review ages rather than dates, so every date here is approximate.

On the Colorado ranking

No. 8 of the 72 rankable records in Colorado →

Ordered by the share of one and two star reviews, weighted by how many reviews stand behind it. It ranks review records, not workmanship.

Every company we hold in Fort Collins, on one axis

0% rated 1–2★30%

Each mark is one company we hold in Fort Collins whose Google breakdown has been read, placed by its share of one and two star reviews. Sandbox Solar is the red one. The amber line is the middle of that set, which includes suppliers and maintenance businesses as well as installers.

What reviewers said

  • 1★ · around August 2026 · the company replied

    New photos of exposed wiring that's been a hazard since the poorly done 'final install' on 4/4. Please view the BBB complaint to see my responses and fully understand the misrepresentation presented in the response. From BBB review- Long Story Short: Sandboxs install almost burned my house down on 2/26/26. It's 6/20 and it's not resolved, and I'm being forced to turn to public reviews and the BBB due to lack of response from the company for well over a month. The last communication from Sandbox Solar outside the BBB was on 5/13/26 calling me a liar (which the Weld County Inspector would debate

  • 1★ · around June 2026 · the company replied

    Whoever's in the loaded down crew cab F-450 flatbed cutting people off going 80 through the construction on I-25 and crossing the white line in the Curve nearly hitting me with your company logo on the truck should probably be removed from your crew. Happened at 6/16/26 3:56 p.m. If they work like they drive is not going to stand up to the rest of these reviews here anyway.

  • 2★ · around January 2026

    I hate leaving bad reviews, but I had a bad experience. When we signed the contract in early July of 25', we were given a 120-day lead-time. As the date approached, we were told it was now going to be 150 day lead-time. This was problematic because of the expiring tax credits. We hired them based on the 120-day timeframe. After applying pressure on the installation date, which should have been around November 10th. I received an email in mid-November with four available dates during the week of Thanksgiving. I replied two hours later with my preferred installation date. I got an email back tha

  • 3★ · around December 2025 · the company replied

    I chose Sandbox Solar after getting a few different quotes from solar companies, ultimately choosing Sandbox because (1) their installs looked a little "cleaner"/prettier than others and (2) they were a local Fort Collins company. Their costs were better for a small system, but were more expensive for a larger system (Apollo was the most economical choice). The salesperson was generally pretty attentive and answered questions within a couple of days of an email. I ended up getting a 9.66kW system for $35k. My main issue was that communication with Sandbox was absolutely HORRIBLE. I was told up

  • 5★ · around August 2026 · the company replied

    Sandbox Solar installed a heat pump and new gas furnace (dual-fuel setup) in our 80-year-old home. The installers, Tyler and Rowan, treated our home like it was their own. They were conscientious and professional and walked us through key decision points. We also needed significant electrical upgrades, and the electrical team, Wyatt and Alex, did an outstanding job working with the challenges of our older home. We are now considering the installation of a tankless water heater and intend to work with Sandbox Solar again.

  • 5★ · around July 2026 · the company replied

    The team from sandbox that did our solar panel installation was great. Wyatt let us know everything that was going to happen, and did the electric work on the ground. Tony and his team on the roof were fantastic. Tony even painted the conduit on the roof and the wall to match. It looks great.

  • 5★ · around July 2026 · the company replied

    The Blue team did a terrific job! Ryan, Eric and Jesse were true professionals and a great team to work with!👍 …

Reviewer names are not published here. Negative reviews are shown first because they are the ones a listing hides, not because they are more representative.

What reviewers keep mentioning

  • courteous staff 22
  • solar panel system 20
  • inverter replacement 13
  • quick installation 12
  • competitive pricing 10
  • installation crew 9
  • heat pump installation 8
  • helpful employees 6
  • no pressure sales 4
  • ev charger installation 4

Topics Google derives from the review text, with how often each appears. A frequent topic is not a good one: “price” turns up in praise and in complaints alike.

What the company says about itself

Taken from its own website. We have not checked any of it, and a sentence on a website is not evidence.

  • Warranty

    “troubleshooting.  KNOWING YOUR WARRANTY If your equipment is still under its…”

Its website also mentions free estimate, but not in a sentence we can quote cleanly.

Elsewhere

  • It is also reviewed on Yelp. Worth reading before you sign anything: those are a different crowd, and the complaints that reach the Better Business Bureau rarely reach Google.
  • It posts on X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. A page that stopped posting years ago tells you something a listing will not.

When they say they are open

Sunday
Closed
Monday
8 AM to 5 PM
Tuesday
8 AM to 5 PM
Wednesday
8 AM to 5 PM
Thursday
8 AM to 5 PM
Friday
8 AM to 5 PM
Saturday
Closed

As Google published them when we last read the listing, not a live check. Ring before you drive anywhere.

Who Google shows alongside them

Google’s own “people also viewed” set, in Google’s order. It is Google’s comparison, not ours.

The ones without a link have no page here, either because Google does not categorise them as solar businesses or because we could not match the name to a listing with confidence.

Other installers around Fort Collins

1–2★3★4★5★gauge 0–20%typical here, 1%

Ordered by how much we can tell you about each, which is not an order of quality. We do not know which of these is better and would not say if we did.

What we don't know

  • The date above is the newest review we hold, which is not necessarily the newest that exists — we hold a large share of Google's reviews, not all of them.
  • We do not verify licences, insurance or bonding. Nothing here has been checked against a state licensing board.
  • We cannot tell you what an installation costs, and we hold nothing about the equipment they fit.

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