Pigeon Infestation of solar panels- solved for free!!

skeddadle

Personal experience ... if your installer did not advise you of the risk of possible pigeon infestation at the time of selling you the panels - and you had to pay to get the infestation fixed - the county courts will get you back the costs as long as you can evidence the loss ... hurrah !!
And the gimmicky RECC code be damned ... courts do not pay any heed to it when they apply the "due care and skill" standard.

Shaka_Zulu

skeddadle wrote: »

the county courts will get you back the costs as long as you can evidence the loss ... hurrah !!

You might mean your County court did and I'm surprised by that but that doesn't mean another one will.

hollydays

I await someone setting up a company to get compensation for this as we speak..

Some less than ethical suggestions on the green and ethical board makes the vent board look tame by comparison
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5617212

skeddadle

I agree - probably not the same scale as PPI but this is mis-selling ... and it should matter because the govt is pumping public, our, money into this business as subsidies ... and we shouldn't let unscupulous installer cream it off !!
The key is to check in the documentation if they advised of this risk during the sale. If they didn't then they fail the legal test of exercising due care and skill and you can get back your evidenced rectification costs.

skeddadle

Isn't it the same law in the land ... atleast in England ... lol !

skeddadle

Shaka_Zulu wrote: »

You might mean your County court did and I'm surprised by that but that doesn't mean another one will.

Isn't it the same law in the land ... atleast in England ... lol !

paddyrg

Was the case contested or awarded by default? I suspect the results will vary somewhat case by case.

DoaM

skeddadle wrote: »

Personal experience ... if your installer did not advise you of the risk of possible pigeon infestation at the time of selling you the panels - and you had to pay to get the infestation fixed - the county courts will may get you back the costs as long as you can evidence the loss ... hurrah !!
And the gimmicky RECC code be damned ... courts do not pay any heed to it when they apply the "due care and skill" standard.

Fixed that for you.

Just because you won doesn't mean anyone else will. Civil cases in the county court do not set a precedence, hence judges will find on a case-by-case basis per the evidence presented by both parties. (Reference to another case in the county court may be persuasive, but the judge is not obliged to give it any weight whatsoever. High court or above cases are a different matter).

And that is fact.

skeddadle

paddyrg wrote: »

Was the case contested or awarded by default? I suspect the results will vary somewhat case by case.

Definitely contested. Installer's case was they were only required to deliver and install the equipment, but the judge opined that the standard of due care and skill applied and the right of consumers/buyers being advised of all risks associated with a product is enshrined in the Consumer Code.

mikb

skeddadle wrote: »

I agree - probably not the same scale as PPI

It certainly is a form of PPI

Problematic Pigeon Infestation!