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I'm assuming most of the installers on this forum are 'hands on'. We have been working on three installs over the last couple of days and the phone hasn't stopped - I've had the laptop in my lap half of the day and I've been frantically calling suppliers to ensure we will get our stuff on time.

As you can probably tell from my forum posts, I'm working 18 hour days at the moment and it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage all the emails and phone calls. This will definitely be our 'best' month - at least as far as the balance sheet looks. December will clearly be pretty much a right off after the first week and I'll be in the office for the rest of the month sorting out paperwork.

If this isn't boom and bust then I must have misunderstood the concept.

I can't start a thread without hurling some abuse at Greg Barker, so here goes: "Greg Barker has a face so smug that it could irritate knot holes out of tree trunks and I would never get tired of punching it."
 
I think he is a really nice chap, I mean who else would drop this bomb on every one before xmas??
I might write him a letter of thanks for putting me out of work just before the holidays as I needed some time off so god bless him.
 
well I heard of the first installer offering his tickets at £1000 today! I will be reporting him, but hey, will this matter after 11/12? I have a telephone conference with my local MP tomorrow who tweeted less than two hours ago a rumour she had heard on twitter about a 50% cut to FIT's - where do these people come from? On the bright side I signed 7 deals today, be a good xmas - bad hangover in the new year! Enjoy all
 
"...my local MP tomorrow who tweeted less than two hours ago a rumour she had heard on twitter about a 50% cut to FIT's..."

Out of touch with the people? They aren't even in touch with themselves.
 
A mad day - and that's just trying to source panels! - thankfully one of the vans didn't have a breakdown today (oh...it did) - if it doesn't kill us it only makes us stronger eh? On a more serious note, the phone's have stopped ringing for new installs.........
 
Just closed the books, trying to source panels is a nightmare, just watching live stock vanish in front of your eyes. Im flat out till the 5th Dec, and some of those are temp installs just to get the kit in, then go back and tidy up the cabling etc.

Now hoping that the suppliers deliver what is ordered and paid for!!! On TIME
 
Can't believe the amount of panels we've bought in the last 48hrs, let alone the quantity of rail. Turned alot of customers away as well, funny how drop in returns sharpens the mind.

Its a bitter blow no matter how busy we will be, £250k of large project cancellations, another £60k looking doubtful. When you consider the time and effort its taken to build a viable business - let alone the investment. I want to bitch slap Gregory Barker so much, not so much for the slashing of the FiT but for the 6 weeks notice. Still I guess we better all get use to being cheated and used by whatever cluckjng bankers are in power.

Say a little pray to the whichever Solar Diety you believe in for sunny weather for the next 5 weeks!!
 
wait till it gets windy, you all be back putting them back up, what would happen if someone loosed your supports to make a claim against yous????
 
eh? with the extra bracing we put in to the roof you would be more worried about getting rained on in bed than where your panels are in the garden.
 

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