Roof Structural Surveys

[Barx]

To 'o the morning,

Sorry for all these PV questions lately. I haven't had a massive amount of experience on the 'behind the scenes' stuff for PV but as mentioned prior, We want to do our own and are getting MCS accredited. Now I want our own jobs to be done right and I hear stories of installers not getting any surveys done, doing shoddy work and generally making a bad job of it all.

There are a couple of things left that I need to clear up and one of them is:

What is the done thing regarding Structural roofing appraisal.

I have spoken to a couple of 'others'. One couldn't give me a straight answer (so probably doesn't do it) then other says he knows a guy who does desktop surveys for him for £15 a shot but that it would be considerably more for us.

What is the going rate for such a thing and do any of you have a recommended contact?

PClip offer them at £75 (please delete if I shouldn't be post such info).

Obviously on survey if there is anything untowards then a visit from a surveyor would be needed, but for regular, in tact roofs, desk topping seems to be accepted.

Thanks

 

[Barx]

Cheers Buddy

 

[binky]

I use indepenedent surveyor at £150 per go, but then I don't have to spend ages measuring roof trusses etc etc, and if anything goes wrong it's his problem. We repair about 2 in 10 roofs, usually  abit of simple bracing, so not doing surveys is quite risky. Having said that as all roofs are rated to take 5ft of snow, they are very unlikley to collapse. I have however seen a roof dipping due to weight of solar thermal panels.