[Tell It Right]

Before I thought about putting solar panels onto my house, I had already replaced my shingle roof with a metal roof anyway. When it was time to replace my shingle roof I was pleasantly surprised that for about 15% more I could put on a metal roof and not have to worry about it again (or at least for decades).

Thus, my 25-year warrantied solar panels will probably need replacing before the roof does. And if my calculations are as accurate for the solar upgrade I just did as they were for the first version of my solar system I had for a year, the energy savings will have paid for the cost (including interest on the HELOC I took out to pay for it) on about the 10th or 11th year.

IMHO it's just as wise for us American families to be as energy independent as possible, as it was wise for Trump to make our nation energy independent. I can't keep the Dims from being stupid with our energy. But I can limit how much their stupid energy policies impact my family.

[Republican in occupied CA]

My roof is old, but still functional.
With the possible changes to net metering coming here in CA, the pencil date for payoff went from 7 to 17 years, even doubling the rate of increase in utilities it was 14.5, so not worth it at the moment. Once I have to replace this roof, I will look at it again. Might do it myself, can’t be that hard (as I don’t mind working on roofs, just a little old to schlep rolls of felt up a ladder all day).