How much in total will your solar system cost? What kind of roof do you have on your house……asphalt ? I’ve been in the construction field for according to my body a 100 years it seems. But I’ve kind of missed out onthe solar panel system phase. Are there still some government incentives for installation?
I’ve always thought our weather in Vancouver is pretty close to Pittsburgh weather. We have dark gloomy days in winter where we don’t see the sun for ages it seems. When I would think we would want the solar power the most,for heat of course. So how does this affect the system if you don’t have batteries to store the power?
Pittsburgh and area actually get a lot more snow than Vancouver,what happens when you got a **** ton of snow on your panels,or worse with a rain freeze cycle,ice then snow? Does someone have to get their *** up there to clear it off? Can the panels hold that type of weight? These are actually genuine questions that goes through my brain when I see a house with the panels on.
I was talking to a good friend of mine who owns a big roofing company. He said the worst thing is getting calls after some of these companies install the system with of course no idea of how a roof works. Damaging membranes,drilling through and throwing on a dab of caulking etc,etc. of course a leak never shows up right away,happens after the installation and payment.
Finding the leak can be a nightmare with all the panels and then access from a roofers perspective. And of course the home owner expecting all this done for next to nothing.
I was watching a high end house being built close to my beach walk. They put on a beautiful metal roof,and had aluminum brackets coming off the facial boards. They then put an aluminum grid attached from board to board about 12 inches above the roof and attached solar panels to them. So that it looked like the panels were independent and accessible. They even put what looked like access points to put safety gear and ladder hook ups to safely get on to the paneling. There was a big shed close where obviously they had a battery storage unit. All I could think of was how much this must have cost. And would they recoup that in their lifetime of energy savings and selling the excess energy.
Last time I traveled through the countryside of Germany by train I was shocked at the amount of solar panels you could see on residential housing.
I certainly don’t discourage solar. And I am the first to hate over regulation and government involvement ,but I sure hope there is some type of watchdog in place for all the fly by nighters that will setup shop and gladly take your money and disappear.
