Solar panels hidden costs
As a former contractor, IMO, no roofing company with a brain would bid a reroof job with any solar panels, even small ones. The cost of disconnecting it and reconnecting them would make any roof job too expensive and if not reinstalled properly by the roofing company, any warranties would be void.
No roofing company would want to fix any roof leaks with panels on the roof.
In the article with the low cost of $20,000, let's make it $10,000 and to do a roof you'd have to take it down and reinstall it, so at least $20,000 if nothing is damaged in the process.
In the future, if the panels could serve as the roof, leak proof for the whole side of the roof, maybe it would make more sense.
How do they hold up to golf ball sized hail and up?
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