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Aha. So if I leave a walkway between horizontal strings then direct access is maintained?

Thank you @Lawrence_SoCal . I'm very grateful that you've taken so much time and care to reply here. I'm happy to share the basic shape of the project I'm looking at and will try to do so below. I always prefer to DIY things - I have more time and competence than cash and a constant desire to...

thank you again. There's a lot of technical terms being used. the normal electrical ones I'm familiar with (although there seems to be a US centric usage ; e.g. breaker panel rather than distribution board/consumer unit etc). Easy enough to understand. The terms of art that have developed...

Hello all I'm in the planning phase for installing solar panels on my roof in SW France. Roof is S type terracotta tiles. The build was only 20 years ago and the roof is in very good condition. I'm using opensolar to help with the planning and at the moment just going with some "default"...

Yup. I'm sure that I will want very and appreciate a lot of help. But I'd love to get the terminology and art of the possible first so that my questions are well focused and informed

Hello all First post here, so good to meet everyone! Project for the first half of 2025 is a good sized solar array at my place in SW France. I'm fairly comfortable about doing all the work but I'm one of those people that loves the planning stage more than the execution.... In that spirit...

Thank you @robbob2112. I am a bear of little brain so was struggling to see how a tile can be replaced when it has to accommodate a mount traversing it. Ditto any cabling. I realise now that they must articulate over the top lip of the tile. Simple when you know how! A little bell of worry...