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” and have a metal roof”

What’s the importance of a metal roof?

[Tell It Right]

A shingle roof has to be replaced roughly every 10 years. If you have a 25 year warranty on your solar panels, and your solar panels are on your roof, that greatly adds to the labor cost of replacing your shingles (moving the solar panels and mounting brackets out of the way, replacing the shingle roof, then re-installing the solar panels).

As an addendum, on my metal roof my solar panels are placed with gaps in certain locations between the panels to gave a roof repairman a path to access the pipes poking out of the roof (in case he has to repair leaks around the pipes).