Ploughcroft in Administration

[solarsavings]

Gavin, a tough but probably a correct decision.

TBH I don't know what to do for the best. I can see the money we have in the bank being eaten away waiting for things to improve knowing full well that they are unlikely to in the near future. We do have other work but that shouldn't be subsidising renewables.

Install prices around here are going too low to make it worht the risks involved. So what to do? wait for the ones without the funds to crash and burn. Price so low that we get the work others need or just sit back take what comes and play the long game knowing that in a few months, maybe a year there will be fewer mcs registered installers around and perhaps more work for those that are left.

IF I didn't have so much stock I would probably jack it in, maybe.

 

[JD6400]

It is of no consolation i know and we are no longer even in the MCS solar market at the moment but it seems as bad out there in the electrical contracting world to be honest !
We have gone from 13 staff working up to 16 hrs a day 7 days a week and full order books at the start of summer to only 6 working part weeks at the moment , i have just hopefully found some work for a couple of them driving tractors and 360's for a mate that has a Ag contracting / plant hire firm .
I have always prided my self on having enough work for any of the blokes to go at , at any time they wish and have never once been in a position not to since going alone more than 12 years ago , this is mainly because our spectrum of work is so broad , but even so it is still not good out there !
Hope it all goes well for you all and you can manage to ride the current solar drought .:clover:

 

[sedgy34]

Gavin, a tough but probably a correct decision.

TBH I don't know what to do for the best. I can see the money we have in the bank being eaten away waiting for things to improve knowing full well that they are unlikely to in the near future. We do have other work but that shouldn't be subsidising renewables.

Install prices around here are going too low to make it worht the risks involved. So what to do? wait for the ones without the funds to crash and burn. Price so low that we get the work others need or just sit back take what comes and play the long game knowing that in a few months, maybe a year there will be fewer mcs registered installers around and perhaps more work for those that are left.

IF I didn't have so much stock I would probably jack it in, maybe.

off load your stock to survive the winter

 

[Gavin A]

speaking of stock, we've somehow ended up exporting 4 of our random panels we owned to Zimbabwe to be used to power a direct feed solar water pump. Not even on a charity basis either, and not a scam as I have the money in our account before we let the stock go anywhere.

Apparently there's a massive potential market for solar powered pumps for irrigation over there, in case any of you fancy getting away from DECC this winter

we've also managed to whittle our stocks of 2 pallets of sanyo panels down to zero, and now just hold about 5 poly panels and a couple of other randoms, plus an SB3800 (without ac socket - long story) that we seem to have owned for ever despite no recollection of why we might have bought it.

I have a pallet and a half of schuco kit to be returned to segen now we've run down our rails, as we're making the switch to schletter as we reckon that's going to save around £6-10 a panel.

Apologies to anyone else in the Yorkshire area, but we're also reverting to plan a of undercutting everyone, which we can now do thanks to no scaf costs, reduced mounting costs and lower overheads. Plan b of maintaining margins seems to have involved us losing work to those who have cut their prices below us while we pay staff to twiddle their thumbs.

I kinda decided after weeks of dithering that I was buggered if I was going to let that ******** **** at decc win by forcing us out of business. Apart from anything else I'd probably have felt the need to live up to my promise to decc the prat (in the yorkshire version of the word) and suffer the jail time if we actually did go out of business, and my 2 brief stints overnight in the cells have told me that I'm really really bad at coping with being locked up.

 

[solarsavings]

off load your stock to survive the winter

I may just go with Gavin's idea and give the local guys a taste of their own medicine first. If that fails, Nigeria you say ;-)

EDIT: or even Zimbabwe

 

[Eco Deal]

Well guys I have fell down the way side which I am sad to say.

This year battling with the prices drops and tariff drops and doing most jobs judt to keep staff employed and my head above water as cost me now.

so its game over for MEP now , good luck guys

 

[Somecamel]

Well guys I have fell down the way side which I am sad to say.

This year battling with the prices drops and tariff drops and doing most jobs judt to keep staff employed and my head above water as cost me now.

so its game over for MEP now , good luck guys

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Sorry to hear that MEP

 

[solarsavings]

What a bummer.

 

[sedgy34]

I may just go with Gavin's idea and give the local guys a taste of their own medicine first. If that fails, Nigeria you say ;-)

EDIT: or even Zimbabwe

well its where greg barker is

 

[solarsavings]

I wouldn't have thought Africa too safe for someone of his................ err persuasion.

 

[dansk]

Ive been through the same thing here (3 years ago) - i dont work from home for nothing, it keeps the overheads down, ok its not ideal but hey we all got do what we got to do - bravo to you Gavin for not burying the head; it is the best policy.

 

[sedgy34]

Well guys I have fell down the way side which I am sad to say.

This year battling with the prices drops and tariff drops and doing most jobs judt to keep staff employed and my head above water as cost me now.

so its game over for MEP now , good luck guys

have you really? looks like your geared up for the green deal and you forked out doing the GDA

 

[Eco Deal]

Yes I still am but I setup eco deal 12 mths ago.

trying to change my name on forum but no one from admin replys to me (jason and Lenny)

 

[sedgy34]

Yes I still am but I setup eco deal 12 mths ago.

trying to change my name on forum but no one from admin replys to me (jason and Lenny)

so which one is you on your website 2nd from left or 4th from left lol

 

[Eco Deal]

thats my wife 2nd from left and mistress on 4th but dont tell my wife please