Standby Generator, Roofing and Soft Washing in Middletown, NJ | A Generator First, Two Jobs Seven Years Later

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Middletown, NJ · Client since July 2019

Ed from Middletown, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since July of 2019 – a generator first, and then, seven years later, two jobs on the outside of the house eight weeks apart.

A 16 kW Generac on a 150-amp service

Commissioned on 24 September 2019. The calculation asked for a minimum of 14 kW under NEC Article 220 Part IV and a 16 kW Generac on natural gas went in, behind a 150-amp service-rated managed whole-house transfer switch. The 150 is worth pausing on, because most houses this size are on 200. A service-rated switch matched to the service the house actually has is the right answer rather than a compromise: it is the property’s own capacity that sets the number, not the catalogue. The load survey lists 2,600 square feet, two refrigerators, a dishwasher, the laundry and two sump pumps – and the sump pumps are the entry that matters. A sump that stops during a storm is how a basement floods, and a storm is precisely when the power goes. The machine has been on our Platinum plan since the day it was commissioned: annual maintenance and remote monitoring that Green Sun runs directly.

4,100 square feet of new roof

March of 2026. A single layer stripped to the sheathing and carted away rather than roofed over, then 4,100 square feet of GAF Timberline HDZ in charcoal, warranted fifty years, with continuous soffit vents at the intake.

5,731 square feet of soft washing

May of 2026, eight weeks behind the roofers. Soft washing is low pressure and a cleaning solution rather than a pressure washer, which is what lifts algae and mildew off siding without driving water in behind it.

Eight weeks, in the only order that works

A roof replacement is a filthy job. Tear-off sends grit, dust and fragments of old shingle down the walls and into the beds below, and no amount of care prevents all of it. Wash the house first and you have paid to clean a surface that is about to be dirtied again; wash it eight weeks after and you are cleaning up the roof job as well as the winter. People get this backwards more often than you would think, and almost always because the roof and the wash were bought from two contractors who did not know about each other. Booked together, the sequence sorts itself out.