Steve's an honest and genuine guy, whatever he says is what he honestly understands the situation to be at the time, if that changes as his knowledge increases that is only natural.
My question to Carl is ... are you blaming Steve for you not getting off your arse and doing your own research?
Whatever Steve knows now is a result of putting in the effort to find out ... if your effort only went as far as "Ask Steve and Steve says no!" then more fool you and don't be trying to shift the blame for your own laziness onto everyone else as if everyone's in some kind of conspiracy.
Grow up, pull your finger out, and sort yourself out!
FFS. I'm almost, but not quite, beginning to regret my post. If you only knew what you were talking about Philip. Before commenting you might want to do a bit of research yourself (even Steve will back me up on this won't you mate
). I did do my own research. Many emails and phone calls to manufacturers and installers, trade associations and the HSE - check my threads (I haven't the time or inclination to post the links here. If it's wet tomorrow and your stuck indoors polishing your SLX 'cos you have little else to do sit down with a packet of Hobnobs (appropriate, those biscuits for you, methinks) and have a look back at them).
I'm was just saying that early last year Steve was saying on here how dangerous it was to clean solar panels unless you took some safety precautions (that he knew all about, but wasn't giving up (which is fair enough - his research, his intellectual property)), yet around that time he's on a roof cleaning in the manner shown in the video - metal pole, no PPE. My question was, 'Why? was he saying one thing yet apparently doing another'. I've been in business long enough to know that there are reason's why you might use such a tactic - one is to persuade competition cleaning solar panel's unless 'in the know' was too dangerous and therefore too much trouble. That's fair enough, but other's also have the right to question such methods, thus my thread was born.
As I said, I'm happy that Steve is successful, I wish him more of the same. Get this, I'm still a fanboy of his business. I know a good (but suspect, in my opinion) business strategy when I see one, but that in itself doesn't stop me expressing my opinions about it. If it was worth my while (it's not given my location, market research and cost-of-entry to market) i'd be cleaning solar panels big time along with windows. And if I was doing so I'd be doing it in safety, thanks to Steve, whose "If you knew what I knew" comments in threads persuaded me to do my own research.
Which is where all this started. Philip. Now go and get that packet of Hobnumptys.