solar installations in the storm - real world wind loading test

[Gavin A]

It's all the hot air that comes for oop norf, see kept it down on the south coast

well, I was in my tee shirt till after it got dark, so could be some truth in that.

In other news, we've been doing a stupidly hard slate roof job today, 3/4 using hanger bolts, 1/4 using genius roof solutions on a section of roof that was plastered to the rafters..... muppets who fitted that bit of the slate roof had used slates too big for the spacings on the latts, so ended up with 4 nails per slate, and yes I mean nails (as in 2 inch nails), with the nail from the slate above also being nailed through the slate below.

One man, 3 brackets in that roof in 6 hours with 4 broken slates, despite sharpening the ripper on site.

vs me with the hanger bolts got 24 bolts fitted with no broken slates despite having to stand on the lower bolts to work on the upper bolts.

MCS can **** right off if they think we'll be switching to their preferred method for retrofit slate jobs - which we get a lot of.

 

[solarsavings]

Beware the spies:rolleyes4:

 

[Gavin A]

one of our competitors has already shopped us to Napit via their forums on this anyway, to which I've responded and heard nowt from NAPIT about so far. So I think that particular cat is out of the bag.

Part of the reason we have PI insurance is to give us a degree of clout legally if any of these bodies did decide to take action against us for not obeying one of their ill conceived edicts. At least we'd maybe get to see the evidence base for their policy, or lack of it.

 

[Worcester]

Remember that MCS is a GUIDANCE document in the same way that BS7671 is, i.e there are occasions when another solution is better / more suitable.

We're in the Sun Lounge here, so should be a (friendly) closed shop..

So long as you have adequate PI insurance then it really shouldn't be an issue.