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
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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@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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