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Morning all,

Just wondered if any customers or professionals on this site have any shocking stories or photographs they can share with me?

We have done a piece on our blog "Solar PV Rogue Traders" and I'd like to continue it.

Would be grateful for anything you could share.
 
Honestly guys, if you saw what we see on a daily basis in normal domestic work, you'd think some of those installs you have pictures for are fantastic. :)
 
Sorry, but I only have photos of poor DIY work.
 

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The industry is governed by REAL.
The contractors are registered with MCS bodies (NAPIT, NICEIC, ETC )

REAL can be avoided by the rogues who just refuse to have membership and sell how and what they like and give the installs to other MCS contractors who maintain a REAL membership.

The MCS bodies are getting an annual revenue from a declining membership and seem never to exclude anyone, as its all income !

REAL point the finger at the MCS bodies and vice versa.

Great idea to have a customer association but its is toothless and circumventable by those who with a mind to do so.
 
wewnt to a job to replace 20 50w GU10s with LEDs. this is what was found in the attic. every JB was the same. cpc's cut off.

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yep, builders, plumbers, Electrical Trainee's all think they know it all. it works. client is happy... till there's a fire or fatality, then maybe, just maybe, electrical work will only be done by qualified sparks. not in my lifetime, i think.
 
Re those pictures with solar panels planted (not installed) on rooftops and side walls! Are the building regs people not bothered what the properties look like after? After all some of the surrounding properties will not sell at market value. They stand to lose thousands of pounds at no fault of their own.
 
driverman said:
Re those pictures with solar panels planted (not installed) on rooftops and side walls! Are the building regs people not bothered what the properties look like after? After all some of the surrounding properties will not sell at market value. They stand to lose thousands of pounds at no fault of their own.
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Totally agree. I've known people be refused planning permission due to roofing tiles being the wrong shade, yet those panels are allowed???
 
Guitarist said:
Totally agree. I've known people be refused planning permission due to roofing tiles being the wrong shade, yet those panels are allowed???
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Strange as it may seem, but yes you are allowed to have PV panels on your foor under the permitted development rights, as long as they are under 200mm from the plain of the roof, even in a conservation area.

You do need planning permission on listed buildings though, and for ground mounted systems too.
 
Geordie Spark said:
Oh aye .... improving all the time.

I bought mesel' a MFT last week, and a Readers' Digest book about Domestic Wiring last month.
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I remember being given an AA book of home improvement and DIY when I was a kid, from a neighbour who "thought I would like it". It had loads of stuff regarding how to carry out house wiring. Now it's the superstores which tell joe public how to change a CU.
 
Guitarist said:
I remember being given an AA book of home improvement and DIY when I was young. It had loads of stuff regarding how to carry out house wiring. Now it's the superstores which tell joe public how to change a CU.
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I Know!!

It's an absolute disgrace putting us cowboys out of work.

It makes me glad to be retired.
 
Guitarist said:
Totally agree. I've known people be refused planning permission due to roofing tiles being the wrong shade, yet those panels are allowed???
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actually, if a neighbour complained, Permitted Development rights could be revoked, and an enforcement notice issued as the rights do come with the responsibility to mitigate the impact on the visual / amenity value of the local area as far as reasonably practicable... or something like that.

Not that the companies that did those abominations will know that or give a ----.
 

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