[RE-wrenches] Roofers installing solar = creative, new installation methods

[Joel Davidson]

Guys,
You're missing a business opportunity. Instead of complaining about roofers' bad work and competition, show the company owners photos of their screw-ups and your quality work. Tell him that he is a risk. Then offer to do their design and electrical installation (let them do the sales, roofing, and grunt work).
Joel Davidson
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Warren Lauzon 
  To: RE-wrenches 
  Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 3:35 AM
  Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Roofers installing solar = creative,new installation methods


  We have seen a lot of the roofing companies nibbling around the edges of solar installs lately. I have only seen a couple of installs personally, and they were far from what I would call professional or reliable. Not quite as bad as your example, but in one case they had used Romex to run the wiring down to the inverter, and not in conduit.


  From: Nick Soleil 
  Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:11 PM
  To: re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org 
  Subject: [RE-wrenches] Roofers installing solar = creative,new installation methods

  Hi wrenches:
     Have you noticed that roofing companies have recently been trying to sell solar?  One company thought of something that I had never considered.  Listen to this neat story.
     I was servicing a job today, where a roofing company recently removed and re-installed a PV array on a 12 degree sloped roof.  The funny thing is that the roofer didn't want to penetrate his new roof, so he and the customer decided to leave the panels sitting on the composition roof without any attachments to the structure.  They didn't think it was necessary!  
      Shortly afterward, the array slid down the roof, and a MultiContact connector came unplugged.  The customer noticed that his system was not operating, and called us to the site.  


  Nick Soleil
  Project Manager
  Advanced Alternative Energy Solutions, LLC
  PO Box 657
  Petaluma, CA 94953
  Cell: 707-321-2937
  Office: 707-789-9537
  Fax: 707-769-9037 





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