Whos doing what to what before the next event......

[craig_colliass]

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Solar in Scotland!!! Now you are pulling my leg

I'm sure I would be too expensive for the customers up there

Do you fit the panels then?

[RogueTwoRobots]

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http://www.solarandwindapplications.com

We do turbines and panels, and you'd think turbines would be more effective in Scotland considering the weather, but all our current income is from solar and all our customers are getting great returns on their systems.

Yeah we deal with every aspect of the installation, from the inverter and electrics to the roof work, panel-fitting and system commissioning. Been trained up in the months I've been here so I can do all aspects of it. Just need to get the parts on the cheap and throw some on my house now

Ventured into England on a few occasions; we've got a unit in South Shields and recently installed two 6kW turbines at two schools in Middlesbrough. But we tend to stick to solar installs in Scotland, so English roofs are all yours

[terry]

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Too many qualifications nowadays, I'm 17th edition and testing and inspection aswell, niceic which costs an ARM and a leg
I have 1 chap that does the pat testing who is qualified and another who has his pv qualifications, but we need working at heights qualifications aswell
you can get a builder to do that though who had done the roof panel installation course ! Oh and mcs certification aswell, the paperwork is now taking far too long.
Soon I will start Christmas lighting which requires minimal tools and no paperwork trying to get in the local paper aswell.

[terry]

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Jamie if you get any cheap panels I will have some aswell !

[Mouldy]

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ha terry, tell me about it... for most jobs at work now i have to do working at heights, working in confiend spaces and isolation paper work to do alot of stuff...as well as other paperwork/courses about working with food for human consumption / steam / pneumatics / hydraulics etc etc Done my pat testing course... and done courses about filling out/requesting and authorising permits for most stuff now... then i have to put down jobs on our online system etc etc... takes more time filling out forms then it does to do a job now.....got to re-sit my 17th next month ....most boring course ever!

[widow_twanky]

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ha terry, tell me about it... for most jobs at work now i have to do working at heights, working in confiend spaces and isolation paper work to do alot of stuff...as well as other paperwork/courses about working with food for human consumption / steam / pneumatics / hydraulics etc etc Done my pat testing course... and done courses about filling out/requesting and authorising permits for most stuff now... then i have to put down jobs on our online system etc etc... takes more time filling out forms then it does to do a job now.....got to re-sit my 17th next month ....most boring course ever!

Got offered a job teaching this part time this year......................what does that say about me then!!! (only saving grace is i turned it down )

Paperwork doesn't mean anything anyway, had to deal with a guy last week who thought welding near a set of propane cylinders was a good idea despite what his hot works permit said. Fair enough it turned out the manifold was faulty but thank god for relief valves and persils ability to wash dirty underpants at 30degrees eh . Paperwork really doesn't stop people being idiots.

[Mouldy]

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teaching what? 17th edition?

...he should of done a risk assesment....more paperwork

[widow_twanky]

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teaching what? 17th edition?

...he should of done a risk assesment....more paperwork

yep 17th edition, and he he had a risk assessment. The point i was making was that he didn't bloody read it and didn't use any common sense. Just shows you can take a horse to water.........................

[widow_twanky]

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Right time for a rant!!

I'll tell you how rediculous paperwork is. In my role as head of electrical engineering at a medium sized electrical consultancy I sign off the design for around 5000 flats each year (that's about 15% of flats built in london). I do quality control on the testing and inspection procedures of large electrical contractors used on these projects and am quite able to get employment teaching most electrical courses at higher education colleges. We deal a lot with sustainability and have on numerous occasions had to deal with city hall when our larger projects get referred there to outline provisions for pv panels etc. I have previously held the role of HV authorised person for some major clients and multinational consultancies and so on.

Apparently (according to part P) because i haven't ticked all the boxes i am not competant to replace the light fitting in my bathroom. I have all the 17th edition and testing C&G's but because I haven't signed up to a certified scheme (because I don't need to) I am not competant.

On the flip side I have a black CSCS card. This shows I have occupational health and safety training up to NVQ level 4/5. The reality is I have no health and safety training except for doing a five minute test where i had to get 90% with questions like 'what do you do if your mate cuts his leg off a) laugh b) go to lunch and hope someone else sorts it out c) stem the flow of blood call for help and arrange for an ambulance'. Then my boss signed a form saying i was sort of a nice chap and then my nice level 4 NVQ turned up in the post two weeks later. Now if i want to i can claim competence to run a construction site. I have no idea of the safety requirements for scaffolding, tower cranes etc etc. but my ticket says otherwise.

Make sense of that!!

[craig_colliass]

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My rant...................


Ditto

[craig_colliass]

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Quote

Except for doing a five minute test where I had to get 90% with questions like
'what do you do if your mate cuts his leg off
a) laugh
b) go to lunch and hope someone else sorts it out
c) stem the flow of blood call for help and arrange for an ambulance'.

Obvious the answers .................................................. ......a

[terry]

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To easy, laugh

[robotwars]

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so then guys.... got much to do before Kiddy ???

[cliveb]

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yes

[jonny]

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yes.