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Roof sag found by solar guy

Wanted to have solar installed. The solar guy came for inspection, said my roof has sag beyond permissible limits and suggested installing panels at a different location.

Have any of you faved same issue and got it fixed. How much does it cost?

My home was built in the 60’s

Thanks

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u/apple_fan_91 — 10 days ago

Home insulation

Hi folks,

Trying to get insulation fixed at home. My utility bills are high both in summer and winter.

Got two quotes, one from service champions and other from attic pros.

Service champions is quoting triple the price of attic pros for same level of service.

How has your experience been with the above two and do have any other recommendations.

Thanks.

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u/apple_fan_91 — 10 days ago

The city dropdown on the calendar page is a complete UX failure (and probably why the site constantly crashes)

I can’t be the only one losing my mind over this. When you finally fight past the Cloudflare gatekeeper, log in, and make it to the visa appointment scheduling page, you are forced to deal with that terrible city dropdown menu to check VAC/OFC availability.

You have to click Mumbai... wait for it to load... "No slots available." Click Delhi... wait for it to load... "No slots available." Click Chennai... loop infinitely or get hit with an "Access Limitation" bot block.

Here is the thing: Visa slots are in such short supply that "choice" is an absolute illusion. Nobody logging into this portal cares about picking their favorite city anymore. If a slot opens up anywhere in the country, people are desperate enough that they will gladly book a flight or a train and go get it.

By forcing thousands of people to manually toggle through 5+ different cities back-to-back, the portal’s design is actively destroying its own infrastructure:

  1. Massive Server Load: If 5,000 applicants log in at once and each click through 5 cities, that’s 25,000 intense, consecutive database queries hammering the server in under two minutes. No wonder the site constantly throws errors or spins forever.
  2. The Cloudflare Trap: The site's security is set up to look for rapid actions. When you are just trying to check availability across locations quickly, Cloudflare flags the rapid dropdown switching as "bot behavior" and locks you out for 24–72 hours.

What we actually need is a Unified Availability Dashboard.

Instead of making us query every city database one by one, the main page should just display a simple, single, nationwide table showing the earliest available VAC and Consular dates for every location at a single glance.

It would completely eliminate the frantic dropdown clicking, slash server load by at least 70–80%, stop triggering false bot bans, and let people make instant decisions before a rogue slot vanishes.

I’ve already submitted this as a feature request through the internal feedback box, but I doubt they’ll listen unless everyone starts making noise about it. Has anyone found a reliable way to check the cities without getting locked out?

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u/apple_fan_91 — 2 months ago