Building Control Guidance on Retro-fitting Solar Panels

[solarsavings]

That must have been an interesting conversation.

They don't consider hanger bolts compliant with what?

I wonder what they mean by 'structural bracing' and if they would recommend the same approach with a trussed roof.


I went to price an installation on a 70s built house in Norfolk today (We wont be getting the job) with a fink truss roof. There was no bracing, no binders, no restraint straps. The trusses had been skew nails to the wallplates. And yet none of the previous installers that had been to price the install had said the roof required remedial wrok before they could have the system they installed. I was told in no uncertain terms that the house has stood for almost forty years, has a few cracks in the ceiling boards, don't they all? if it needed the work I said it needed why hadn't it collapsed by now?. Was he worried about complying wiht eurocode 5, were the other potential installers?

So while I disagree with much that worcester says about the codes and best practise today my eyes were opened wide to the fact that far too many installers know jack about roof structures than is good for this industry and a good many of them probably don't have the skills needed to do any remedial work needed.

How much of your installer training covered roof structure.

 

[Worcester]

my eyes were opened wide to the fact that far too many installers know jack about roof structures than is good for this industry and a good many of them probably don't have the skills needed to do any remedial work needed.

That has been my whole concern all along.

I have walked from many a job where I believed Solar PV was not the correct solution, though unfortunatley sometimes though basic greed (the customers as much as some installers) systems have subsequently been installed.

 

[IVEnergy]

Interesting.