BuildingWithCoralHomes: My! People come and go so quickly here!

Dry liners brickies and AC installers went to work Monday, and apart from some detail brickwork were complete by Friday.

Got to say that I'm very pleased with the quality of the brickwork, very nice finish to it, and the dry lining finish is pretty good as well.

On Tuesday the solar installer came back to relocate the panels, and rather than risk him botching the job the second time I took the time out of work to meet with him and make sure he understood exactly where they were supposed to go.....

Well it could have gone better, the guy started off by explain that when installed it generated great power, and there would be no difference if installed where I wanted it, and generally whenever there is a choice between East and West roof, they generally go with the west roof....

...This was the point where I was nearly overcome with the urge to graphically explain to the guy which orifice he was talking out of, and were it not for the fact I was hoping to get a solid days work out of him I (to my regret) opted not to, and instead made it clear that no matter what he thought he was going to move them.

See if we were talking about East/West then yeah he would be correct, but since we are talking about North East/South West then we are talking about the yield dropping from 90% optimum to about 70% optimum (100% optimum being direct north)

In case anyone is interested, here's the figures
The system as designed (6 panels on NW roof and 14 panels on NE roof) is expected to generate 7444kWh per year, by moving the 14 panels to the SW roof the annual yield drops to 6452kWh per year

Moral of the story is don't try and bullshit an engineer!

Solar drama is not over yet though, there is still the matter of 17 damaged roof panels that will need replacing, and they are yet to install the inverter.