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[openspaceman]

29 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

He’s an agricultural building fabricator and erector by trade and I think that price is with him doing much for the work himself,

Do you know how the prices add up?

 

With ground mount there is no scaffold cost and that adds £1500 down here. Even a top grade inverter is no more than £2500 for 5kW and a cheap chinese hybrid much less. My panels were around £500/kW and if you can use a qualified electrician for the connection but to get the export money you need an MCS certified installer in order to get the certificate the electric company will require.

[Johnsond]

56 minutes ago, scbk said:

If he's got the space, did he not make a clanger by not putting in a ground source heat pump, thought they were always cheaper to run? And also solar and cables whilst the place was getting built?

🤷‍♂️I guess at the time he thought not. 

[Johnsond]

39 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Do you know how the prices add up?

 

With ground mount there is no scaffold cost and that adds £1500 down here. Even a top grade inverter is no more than £2500 for 5kW and a cheap chinese hybrid much less. My panels were around £500/kW and if you can use a qualified electrician for the connection but to get the export money you need an MCS certified installer in order to get the certificate the electric company will require.

No it was just a chat we were having whilst I was up collecting some brackets he’d knocked up,  it’s not a small property by any standards but the cost and break even forecast were all he mentioned. 

[scbk]

No wonder there's a labour shortage, they're all driving driverless busses! (2 staff on each one!)

 

 

 

 

[Jackalope]

4 minutes ago, scbk said:

No wonder there's a labour shortage, they're all driving driverless busses! (2 staff on each one!)

 

 

 

 

Which by my maths is a 100% increase on regular busses. 🤷🙄

[scbk]

I'm waiting for full driverless, probably a safer bet!

 

 

 

 

 

[trigger_andy]

2 hours ago, scbk said:

No wonder there's a labour shortage, they're all driving driverless busses! (2 staff on each one!)

 

 

 

 

It’s only until the technology is proven, then it will be reduced to one then perhaps none  

[scbk]

Yep, the staff are just there for the punters

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Johnsond]

Record numbers not working due to ill health

APPLE.NEWS

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Mental health issues and back and neck pain have contributed to the rise in long-term sickness.

Mental health issues !! back and neck issues due to home working 😞🤷‍♂️the insanity that was covid just seems to keep giving more and more. 

[Johnsond]

Rishi, it falls to you to cure the national malaise Covid has spread

APPLE.NEWS

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