We do lots of installations with provided materials - no waivers etc, and to date, no problems except one...
and that was with materials provided by us, actually.
We'd fitted signage to a building - all ACM panels cut, shaped and glued , covering 30 feet x 6 feet, and attached with a toggle screw that goes into the cement sheeting and flops down, then you tighten it.
That was 20 feet up in the air.
2 months later a freak wind blew past the building and ripped 5 of the versilux or villaboard cement sheets off, pulling my sign down with it.
The rest of my sign held up, still attached to the shed. The other end was on the ground. In between were cement sheets that had been inadequately affixed to the shed frame, with barely 4 screws per sheet.
Clearly the fault was not my sign - it was still connected at both ends- up on the building, and peeling dowen to the ground. The builders had never put enough screws in their cement sheeting.
But the building belonged to a firm of lawyers who bought it as an investment, and despite me being 'in the right' I could not afford to fight them, and they were being all smart-arsed and refusing to accept it was any one else's fault but mine.
So sadly we made it all anew, and bought new wall sheeting and fitted and painted that too.
A week's extra work, plus materials, for zero return except saving our good name, and saving extra costs through court, although I could have proven we'd win - I kept all broken sheets for 8 years and it was obvious the original fixings were woefully inadequate.
I was just grateful that when it fell off, the bit that hit the ground landed between 2 expensive cars, and not on them, nor on any people.
