Green Building Forum - Mounting PV panels Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:13:29 +0100 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.3 Mounting PV panels https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6877&Focus=143991#Comment_143991 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6877&Focus=143991#Comment_143991 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:29:12 +0100 Gavin_A
after spending half a day removing panels and trying to replicate the leak with a hose, we eventually found out that it had actually been leaking on both sides of the roof, not just where we'd installed, and it turned out that we'd possibly loosened the ridge vents while working on the roof, and it was the ridge vent that was leaking.

Other than that, not a sausage, and we've done several in the wilds of scotland, 2 of which have just come through their 2nd winter with no issues.]]> Mounting PV panels https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6877&Focus=144006#Comment_144006 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6877&Focus=144006#Comment_144006 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:19:28 +0100 jamesingram )
I've done similar on a fake slate job also , no problems reported to date

stripping out, to flash in and you can end up taking half the roof off , had a look a jimmy's flash kit, still need
7 slates out per bracket , say 32+ ish brackets on a 16 panel job , 224 slate to pull , that's a lot of labour.
looks like a pucker job though]]> Mounting PV panels https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6877&Focus=144069#Comment_144069 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6877&Focus=144069#Comment_144069 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:55:27 +0100 Phil.Chaddah-Duke Mounting PV panels https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6877&Focus=144111#Comment_144111 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6877&Focus=144111#Comment_144111 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:18:10 +0100 snyggapa
How good a construction method this is , I don't know, I got the impression that teh PV installer was making it up as he went along and had never fitted a slate roof before - my builder gave him a hand doing it.

-Steve]]> Mounting PV panels https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6877&Focus=144115#Comment_144115 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6877&Focus=144115#Comment_144115 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:33:57 +0100 Phil.Chaddah-Duke