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So I've been down in Cornwall for the last couple of days and the place is covered in panels now. A hell of a lot of them on slate roofs and the vast majority of these are installed with hanger bolts. I know opinion is somewhat split on these but I'm firmly in the hanger bolts = bad idea camp. Time will tell if they do leak or not but I am only going on advice from roofers.
One particular job was on a community centre that we priced about 18 months back. It's a very long roof with some very strong shading issues. The layout is identical - literally identical - to the layout that I proposed. Of course, it is somewhat possible that the other installer came up with the same proposal as I did but I'm skeptical. Anyway, this job has been installed with hanger bolts and the inverters are nowhere to be seen - they had two choices, a very warm and inaccessible loft space or mounted externally. Our price included building a housing around the inverters with a door on. Looks like they went for the loft option.
Pretty frustrating to lose out on this as it looks like we have been undercut by someone pinching my design on doing a less thorough job.
It has got me wondering how many other times my designs have been pinched and handed over to a competitor.
One particular job was on a community centre that we priced about 18 months back. It's a very long roof with some very strong shading issues. The layout is identical - literally identical - to the layout that I proposed. Of course, it is somewhat possible that the other installer came up with the same proposal as I did but I'm skeptical. Anyway, this job has been installed with hanger bolts and the inverters are nowhere to be seen - they had two choices, a very warm and inaccessible loft space or mounted externally. Our price included building a housing around the inverters with a door on. Looks like they went for the loft option.
Pretty frustrating to lose out on this as it looks like we have been undercut by someone pinching my design on doing a less thorough job.
It has got me wondering how many other times my designs have been pinched and handed over to a competitor.