12th December - on the horizon.

[SolarCity]

I can see it! A flickering beacon on the horizon. Every day it gets closer as a I clamber through this swamp of despair.

Just for a few weeks I won't have to deal with brain-dead delivery drivers, rude and incompetent suppliers, sub-human sub-contractors or slobbering couriers.

Running a business in the last few weeks? It's been like being trapped in a plummetting elevator with a gang of flailing, vomitting farm-hands.

Stop the world - I'm getting off.....

 

[confounded]

Yes, in the same boat, counting down the days. When is your last install?

 

[SolarCity]

Scaffold is going up on the last install tomorrow morning and were following up to get the roof work started. We can't get the stock we need for other jobs we have won so have decided to call it a day.

 

[confounded]

Hmm we are going to the Tuesday of next week. Working tomorrow to try and reduce what we need to do next week. Still have 2 4kWp one 10kWp and a 1kWp micro inverter system to get done....

Should have all the gear in our hands today which is the biggest hurdle at the moment, although things seemed to have got a lot easier in the last week. You could get another couple in if you wanted......

 

[MorganPVI]

Our last job goes in Monday, then subbing till the 10th.

 

[dansk]

Im done Tuesday, but i am going to survey in the morning so maybe if i can get the kit that will be the last one.

 

[northernsun]

Hopefully done tuesday and I cannot bloody wait! The worst thing for me has been dealing with customers! I hate the way I have been dealing with them- ie, ringing up to re-arrange things because of missed deliveries etc.. Not just once but 3 times for one customer. I hate having to be like this and It has really worried me that the customer in question must have thought I was some sort of cowboy making excuses and keeping a lot of her money. Either that or I've just come across as incompetent. Thankfully all have been undestanding but it infuriates me that I've been put in this position.
That and the general stress of the last month of herding cats means I can't wait for a couple of days of lying down!

 

[SRE]

That's what I've hated the way we've had to move customers around. Our issues have been more around getting our roofer on site and the weather but in the roofers case they had already doubled their work for us to help us out and understand the deadline we've had to work with it. It wasn't their fault, or ours!

Our last one on Tuesday and I don't expect to install until Feb after that.

 

[JulianC]

Was planning to finish today but a customer got in touch day before yesterday to see if we could fit him in. Stock arriving for that one on Tuesday....with any luck

'Tis the storm before the calm....

 

[Eco Deal]

30 days with out a day off ! due a LLLLLLOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGGG sleep !!!!

 

[SolarCity]

I have been told that I have had just 24 days off this year - including 14 days in Cyprus with my laptop perched on my lap.

I have also worked out that I spend 4 days in the office for every 1 day on site. I expect that ratio to increase on the office side after the deadline.

 

[SRE]

We've had 2 weekends off the whole of this year, it's been torture but going to San Francisco in November was supposed to be the trade off :-(

We'll be finished, paperwork and all by Thursday and that's us til mid January!

 

[MorganPVI]

I can almost taste the all you can eat Chinese we will be going to for the firm Christmas do, expecting a sore head on the 19th.

 

[dansk]

On mine tonight, free bar all night.

 

[Graeme Harrold]

Xmas do booked for the 17th, cant wait! Still got 1x trapezoidal 4kW to complete, 1 slate 4kW to do and 1x 4kW on the ground (600 miles away). All in all looking forward to the glorious 9th when I too can have a long lie in and chill out for a while. Oh yes and wait for the nice VAT return that Ive just submitted!!!