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fresun
Hello PV crew,
I am disapointed with progress so far on my first install. Basicly the roof hooks -plain tile design, but they are the long 250 reach style and with no sideways adjustment. So fitted roof hooks and rails using hooks at 900 centres fixed with 8mm coach screws and maintaining a 4-6mm gap between roof hook and tile below. Had to cut a loads of tiles - not much joy and use loads of lead flashing - not very eco! and to top it the damn structure is so flimsy I wouldn't land in it if I were a bird for fear of collapse. the length of the bracket means the weight of the panels force the brackets down onto the tile below despite the requested gap, so having all sorts of alignment problems to boot. Wishing now I had listened to the salesmen who hinted that another bracket design is more popular - perhaps the shorter and surely more rigid design brackets i have now seen on the portal. Now I am considering starting all again from scratch with my east west split as this is supposed to be for MSC assesment. Why are these brackets so flimsy are they supposed to sit on the rafter AND some battoning rather than just floating.
Any advice would be very welcome Thanks Duncan
Deep breaths:shame:
I am disapointed with progress so far on my first install. Basicly the roof hooks -plain tile design, but they are the long 250 reach style and with no sideways adjustment. So fitted roof hooks and rails using hooks at 900 centres fixed with 8mm coach screws and maintaining a 4-6mm gap between roof hook and tile below. Had to cut a loads of tiles - not much joy and use loads of lead flashing - not very eco! and to top it the damn structure is so flimsy I wouldn't land in it if I were a bird for fear of collapse. the length of the bracket means the weight of the panels force the brackets down onto the tile below despite the requested gap, so having all sorts of alignment problems to boot. Wishing now I had listened to the salesmen who hinted that another bracket design is more popular - perhaps the shorter and surely more rigid design brackets i have now seen on the portal. Now I am considering starting all again from scratch with my east west split as this is supposed to be for MSC assesment. Why are these brackets so flimsy are they supposed to sit on the rafter AND some battoning rather than just floating.
Any advice would be very welcome Thanks Duncan
Deep breaths:shame: