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I built my house using me as the GC seventeen years ago. One of my failures, there were plenty , was that I did not properly follow through on the roofer I hired. In my youth, I worked with a 5 person crew framing and sheeting 5k square plus foot homes. Amazing job for a kid. Friday's payday was all benjamines! Since that job I enjoy avoiding ladders and roofs. My home is on top of a small mountain with an area that wind funnels through quite harshly. This year two times I've lost multiple squares of asphalt tiles. A friend who owns a homeowner and a commercial construction business sent his crew to do a quick repair. His crew reported the roofing nails used were not long enough and subpar. Some showed rusting.
We met up for lunch yesterday and needing a new roof came up. He had seen a Tesla solar shingle roof being installed on a lower Westchester NY mansion and asked the contractor about it. The contractor told him if you need a new roof and plan solar panels, this is about the same cost and it works pretty well. I've read the ups and downs of the Tesla/Panasonic relationship and production in Buffalo. That 2016 downward trend seems to be reversing in 2020.
I don't know much so I'm hopeful there are board members with solid knowledge base. I do have excellent sun exposure from sunrise to 3pm with no tree obstruction. No future tree obstruction either as I own the property that trees could affect. The home is about 4k square feet over 3 floors and has enough roofing tile space to exceed 11,000 kWh a year coverage. I would not be interested in battery storage (seems very expensive) and I believe my electric carrier offers net metering so seems moot to me.
Thoughts? Positives? Negatives?
We met up for lunch yesterday and needing a new roof came up. He had seen a Tesla solar shingle roof being installed on a lower Westchester NY mansion and asked the contractor about it. The contractor told him if you need a new roof and plan solar panels, this is about the same cost and it works pretty well. I've read the ups and downs of the Tesla/Panasonic relationship and production in Buffalo. That 2016 downward trend seems to be reversing in 2020.
I don't know much so I'm hopeful there are board members with solid knowledge base. I do have excellent sun exposure from sunrise to 3pm with no tree obstruction. No future tree obstruction either as I own the property that trees could affect. The home is about 4k square feet over 3 floors and has enough roofing tile space to exceed 11,000 kWh a year coverage. I would not be interested in battery storage (seems very expensive) and I believe my electric carrier offers net metering so seems moot to me.
Thoughts? Positives? Negatives?