Quote for Adjoining Houses

[whinmoor]

I’m looking at quoting for a semi-detached house. The customer enquired about whether I would be prepared to do a “package deal” if he could get his adjoining neighbour to sign up.

Installing in portrait, I can only get 2 rows of 5 panels on each property. If, however, the rails are joined together, I could get 2 rows of 11 panels on. Each property would have a panel which straddles the boundary (i.e. they would each occupy a bit of their neighbour’s roofspace.).

Apart from the fact that it would be marginally preferable to own the top panel in the middle, can anyone see a problem with this arrangement? The neighbours apparently have a good relationship.

 

[solarsavings]

[/QThe neighbours apparently have a good relationshipUOTE]
For now.

Something like this is lawyer time imho.

 

[SRE]

Yup - you're in flying freehold territory - I'm afraid I'd be making my excuses to do the 2 x 10 systems, knocking them a bit off to make it attractive rather than having shed loads of hassle for the laske of 1 panel extra for each customer.

 

[sedgy34]

wow stop there your arse will be sued big time

 

[pvman]

Yup - you're in flying freehold territory - I'm afraid I'd be making my excuses to do the 2 x 10 systems, knocking them a bit off to make it attractive rather than having shed loads of hassle for the laske of 1 panel extra for each customer.

This is what I would offer too. If one wants to sell there will be no end of trouble with a shared system.

 

[whinmoor]

OK - message understood. The customer simply suggested it as a possibility and I said it would be technically possible. Clearly the legalities are problematic so they need to do some research and sign disclaimers if we're going to go down that route.