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My wife shares the sentiment. To me it’s an acceptable trade off, similar to having gutters installed around the house, or a leech field for a septic, or a pump
by ed25519FUUU 5y ago
My wife shares the sentiment. To me it’s an acceptable trade off, similar to having gutters installed around the house, or a leech field for a septic, or a pump house.
- handrous 5y agoWhat does rooftop solar do for roofing replacement costs? Seems like you'd need to get some much-more-expensive labor involved than the usual roofing crew for your typical asphalt-shingle roof, and you'd have to bring them out twice (once to remove, once to re-install at the end). Thanks to hail, I'm very likely to need to replace my roofing at least twice in the lifetime of a solar installation (I'm assuming solar panels are very, very resilient against hail—if not, I guess I'll have to forget about ever doing that, period). How much more likely are roof leaks with rooftop solar? More holes in the roof (for mounting the panels) has got to increase the leak risk.
- ed25519FUUU 5y agoI asked this same question to solarcity when I had my panels installed 5 years ago. The deal was they come out, take off the panels, store them, and come install them again for $500.