Fred Cannock has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since July of 2024, when the removal and reinstallation of an existing solar array was booked alongside a new roof. The roof was finished on 14 August 2024 and the panels were back on by 3 October.
Two layers off, 1,800 square feet on
This roof had been covered over once already, so two layers of old shingle came off down to the sheathing rather than one. Deck protection went over the exposed sheathing, then a GAF Timberline HDZ system in Charcoal carrying a 50-year warranty, aluminum drip edge along 221 feet of rakes and eaves, and a ridge vent along the peak.
20 panels down and back up
The array is 4.6 kW across 20 panels — 230 watts apiece, which places it in an earlier generation of modules. All of it came down, panels and mounting system together, and all of it went back: the existing mounts reused, the panels reinstalled and new DC rooftop wiring run throughout.
A rail-free array is a different job to reset
Most arrays sit on rails, so a row of panels shares a handful of anchor points. This one is rail-free, which means each panel is fixed to its own mounts and every mount is its own hole through the shingles. On a new roof that changes the arithmetic of a reset: there is no shortcut where a few long rails go back on. Every fixing gets new flashing, one at a time, and every one of them has to be right, because the whole point of the exercise was a roof that does not leak.
One microinverter replaced while the array was down
The notes carry a small instruction: replace the customer-supplied microinverter on the second array, checked against the Enphase map. A microinverter sits underneath its panel, so on a working array reaching one means taking a panel off. With the array already down for the roof, a unit that needed replacing was replaced at the only moment it was ever going to be easy. That is what having both crews on one job buys.
Why the roof under an array is worth doing properly
An array is fastened down for twenty-five years and more, so the roof beneath it has to last at least that long or the whole thing comes off again. Here it did come off — two layers of old shingle had reached the end, and the panels had years left in them. The order that made sense was down, roof, back up, with new flashing at every fixing and a 50-year system underneath. The array is the same one it was in August; what is beneath it is not.
Why Port Monmouth homeowners choose Green Sun Energy Services
One company removes the solar, fixes the roof, corrects what is underneath and puts everything back right.
What makes Green Sun Energy Services different
- Roofing: installed as a GAF Certified Roofing Contractor (#CE28608), with a GAF Timberline Lifetime Roofing System like the one on this home. On this home: a new roof over 1,800 sq ft.
- Solar: design and installation supervised by a NABCEP-certified professional (#PVA-111016-016148). On this home: a solar array and the panels removed and reinstalled.
- Warranty: backed by a 50-year roof warranty and a 5-year roofing workmanship warranty.
- Local: locally owned and operated in New Jersey since 2010, NJHIC licensed (#13VH06229000), with 32 completed roofing projects and 140 completed solar projects across Monmouth County and 92 roofing projects and 363 solar projects throughout New Jersey.
Our work in Port Monmouth
Green Sun Energy Services has completed 1 roof replacement and 6 featured solar projects in Port Monmouth. Port Monmouth, a community in Middletown Township, on Sandy Hook Bay, is served by JCP&L.
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Project Facts
- Location
- Port Monmouth, NJ
- Services
- Roofing Installation, Solar Removal/Replacement
- Client since
- July 2024
- System
- GAF Timberline Lifetime Roofing System
- Area replaced
- 1,800 sq ft
- Warranty
- 50 years
- Workmanship warranty
- 5 years
Questions from Port Monmouth homeowners
SolarCan the old mounting hardware be reused after a reroof?
It depends on the manufacturer's requirements, the condition of the components and the warranty. The roof penetrations and weatherproofing components matter most, and a reroof is often the moment to replace the attachment and flashing rather than reinstall ageing roof-interface hardware.
SolarCan New Jersey change its net-metering rules?
Yes. Energy statutes, Board of Public Utilities regulations and utility tariffs can all change. A proposal should describe the rules as they currently stand rather than guarantee that they will hold for decades.
RoofingWill gutter guards stop ice dams on a Port Monmouth home?
No. Ice dams come from snow melting on the warmer parts of a roof and refreezing at the colder edge, which is driven by attic heat loss, insulation, air leakage, ventilation and the weather. Keeping the gutters clear is worth doing, but it is not a substitute for the attic and roof design that causes the problem.
RoofingWill there be nails in my yard after a roof replacement?
A careful contractor should perform repeated magnetic sweeps and visual cleanup, but no contractor can realistically guarantee that every small fastener will be found. Keep children and pets away from the work zone until cleanup is complete.
RoofingDoes a wind warranty with no speed limit mean the roof cannot blow off?
No. It is a limited warranty without a maximum wind-speed limitation for qualifying systems, and that is a statement about coverage rather than about physics. Storm damage remains possible and the coverage remains subject to the warranty's terms and exclusions.