Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    1 year ago

    Can you pay for the roof repairs required for solar under a 1% “green” loan that banks offer alongside your mortgage for buying the solar panels themselves?

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      1 year ago

      We’re in the privileged position of being mortgage free at this point, however only one of us is working at the moment since our second child was born. I don’t think we would qualify for the loan income-wise unfortunately. Not that we particularly want to take out any new loans.

      We’re actually pretty good at saving and have a decent sized emergency fund, but we also just bought a car to replace our old one. It’s just too much at once for us to feel comfortable. I did go through our old building inspection report when we got the house and they did mention the deterioration of the pointing around our ridge caps back then. I really should have had it looked at a lot sooner.

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        1 year ago

        We owned a house for about 10 years. When we bought it the building report said the decramastic tiles the roof was made of needed recoating. We did nothing until we sold it. Don’t feel too bad 😆

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          Haha, recently had a roofer come in to fix a cracked tile - Feeling much better as they mentioned the roof is due for a repaint sometime in the near future.

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          Honestly I probably wouldn’t have had it looked at if we weren’t considering the solar panels… Made sense to make sure the roof doesn’t need any extra maintenance before it went on.

          We probably don’t really need to paint it right now, but its tempting to get it all done in one go

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            1 year ago

            Have you had some quotes for the Panels & Installation yet?

            Was wanting to look at getting Solar Panels in the future, and was wondering what installation on a Tiled Roof entails.

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              I did get a quote from smaller installer. Around 14K for a 6.6kW or 18K for an 8.8kW system. That’s the installed estimate. If we wanted to add battery storage it was around another 11.5K extra which isn’t worth it right now imo.

              Having concrete tiles, they mentioned they would need to lift some tiles when installing as the mounting bracket would get attached to the trusses underneath.

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                Thank you for some data :)

                Any chance they mentioned / gave off vibes that installing on a tiled roof had any additional complications or risks?

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                  Not really, it sounded like they had done it before. They asked if we do replace tiles to get some extra ones as some in case any break during installation. They were happy enough even before I told them I was going to get a roofer to look at it first.

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                    1 year ago

                    Ahh good to know :)

                    I always wanted to get some solar panels and also some batteries. Wonder if batteries are steadily coming down in price?