It's a beauty

[JulianC]

Was googling for solar pv wall mounts, as you do, when I came across this:

http://www.checkatrade.com/Handlers...5-4ca8-9275-932846004931&width=716&height=537

Erm, impressive ain't it imp:

Anyhow, now that I am free from the shackles of MCS, I am launching headlong into the heady world of DIY eco-bodgery. I have a couple of amps spare capacity on my 16A G83 limit, a Soladin winging its way to me as we speak, and a short section of suntrap-esque south facing fence close to the house that's begging to be clad in a pv panel or two (well, three to be precise - I'm off to Dulas to pick up some of their snazzy Solar Frontier 150 thin films next week. PVSyst reckons 450W of these will far outperform 500W of crystalline for a similar outlay, mainly 'cos they'll be mounted at around 60degrees from the horizontal, to minimize loss of patio and maximise winter generation to dump to space heating). Which leads me onto my question - does anyone know of a proprietary, lightweight alu. mounting frame that can be hung vertically to provide around 60 degrees of inclination for Solar Frontier panels in portrait, which are a shade under 1300 x 1000? Or shall I just butcher some timber and cobble together a frame to suit?:cowboy: Yee haw!

 

[telectrix]

i've never seen a monkey's abortion, but now at least i know what it looks like.

 

[JulianC]

You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait till I've siliconed my three panels to the shiplap fence and hid the inverter under a plastic bucket to keep the rain off. I may post a pic. I may not.

 

[Gavin A]

You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait till I've siliconed my three panels to the shiplap fence and hid the inverter under a plastic bucket to keep the rain off. I may post a pic. I may not.

cable ties and carrier bag should be sufficient, not need to splash the cash on expensive silicon and buckets.

 

[Gavin A]

love the way this one's got the installers name embeded into it, so they can be imortalised across the web for it.

 

[Worcester]

Bodgit and Run They Are obviously proud of these types of installs
Portfolio

 

[Worcester]

And don't comment on the H&S aspects of that scaffold either.


Probably just scrambled up the neighbour's roof to take the photo as well!!

 

[Gavin A]

must admit there's probably 2 we've done that are a bit similar to that where the customer basically insisted on us squeezing every last drop from the roof space, I guess it depends a bit on whether anyone can actually see the system or not - one of ours it can pretty much only be seen by cows, the other we really did try to talk them into a more sensible design but they could see that we could squeeze a couple more panels down the side of the velux's and insisted that's what they wanted.

Saw this last pair at the show last weekend actually, and they were loving their installation, happily stood on our stand for 20 minutes telling everyone how good we were, so I suppose there are instances where the customer should be allowed to over rule our judgement (not often mind).

 

[Gavin A]

erm actually I take that back, I just realised that they could have actually got all the panels lined up instead of just throwing them on.... so fair enough that is **** poor.

 

[SolarCity]

Jesus Christ.... and these are the ones they put on their website? I actually laughed out loud.

Frankly, the council should be demanding that they take that lot down.

 

[dansk]

http://www.rdbgreen.com/images/scroller//larger/dscf0058.jpg this one made me chuckle, could SE for all I know

 

[dansk]

changed my mind http://www.rdbgreen.com/images/scroller//larger/dscf0034.jpg

 

[whinmoor]

changed my mind http://www.rdbgreen.com/images/scroller//larger/dscf0034.jpg

Need to get one of those invisible scaffolds!

 

[Worcester]

So are we actually going to let a guy that is clearly proud of his appalling and dangerous installation practices get away with it, or is someone going to drop a line to the H&SE ?

The way he has posted these as good examples of his work mean that he is actually putting himself and his employees life at risk, not just once, it is on a regular basis and he either doesn't care or is completely ignorant (in the proper sense of the word)

I know we aren't all perfect, however there is something unsafe on every picture during construction. (let alone how the PV has been installed)

p.s. dansk, you missed this one http://www.rdbgreen.com/images/scroller//larger/dscf0057.jpg

This really must be the worst portfolio of work from one installer that I've seen

 

[SolarCity]

I'm staggered that someone would put that kind of stuff on their website. They are clearly ignorant of what makes a good job.

But lets not be hasty here. This is a family business. If there is anything wrong with the quality of the work then it is up to MCS or the customer to get involved. If we are genuinely concerned about H&S then fair enough but to be honest the one roof with no scaffold is a single story, low pitch. I wouldn't use a scaffold either.

After all, a potential customer must surely be looking at their website portfolio before signing contracts, right?