Back in October we dropped a down payment on a solar power installation. At the time, I thought we’d have a fully operational system in “a few weeks”.
Boy was I wrong. Seven months later, almost to the day, was the next time we saw the contractor. Although he had some legitimate excuses over the course of the winter– Montana weather and all– there have been plenty of days when I felt like he could’ve been on the roof installing solar panels. I realize that contractors are busy, but sheesh, seven months? It’s been pretty frustrating. Finally, after hounding him for the past few months (“Uhh, it’s spring now, and it sure seems like you could be working on our house…”) he actually came back and started mounting the panels.
This is about a third of the system, and I imagine it’ll be a few weeks (sigh) until the rest of the panels are mounted and hooked into the electrical system. If we’re lucky we’ll be generating electricity by the solstice…