Quality of Life Chiropractic Center in Eatontown, NJ has been a Green Sun Energy Services client since August of 2023. The roof and the array were bought together in August and installed nine days apart that November.
4,600 square feet of new roof
The old covering came off in a single layer on 19 November 2023 – stripped back to the deck rather than shingled over – and went back on as a GAF Timberline Lifetime system. There are 385 linear feet of rakes, eaves and valleys on the building, and edges are where a roof of this size starts letting water in.
18.48 kW and 44 REC panels
The array followed on 28 November: forty-four REC 420-watt panels, 18.48 kW in total, estimated at 16,975 kWh in the first year, on a Snap-N-Rack rail-free system, with 260 linear feet of critter guard closed around the perimeter.
Why the roof went first
An array has a working life measured in decades and the covering beneath it does not. Putting panels on a roof near the end of its life means taking them off and putting them back when the shingles finally go – and on a practice seeing patients every day, that is a second disruption nobody wants. Doing both in one November means the array will very likely never have to move, and the building was on the contractors’ schedule once rather than twice.
Project Facts
- Location
- Eatontown, NJ
- Services
- Roofing Installation, Solar Critter Guard, Solar Panel Installation
- Client since
- August 2023
Solar
- Panels
- REC Model # 420AA-PURE-2
- System size
- 18.48 kW
- Inverter
- SolarEdge SE6000H-US000NNC2 HD Wave
- Mounting system
- Snap-N-Rack
- Estimated first-year production
- 16,975 kWh
- Critter guard fitted
- 260 ft
Roof
- System
- GAF Timberline Lifetime Roofing System
- Area replaced
- 4,600 sq ft
- Warranty
- 50 years
Questions from Eatontown homeowners
SolarHow does residential solar work on a Eatontown home?
The panels convert sunlight into direct-current electricity, and an inverter or microinverters convert that into alternating current the house can use. When the array produces more than the house is drawing, the surplus flows out through the utility meter under New Jersey's net-metering rules. When the house needs more than the array is making, the difference comes from the utility.
RoofingDoes a manufacturer's roof warranty cover the contractor's workmanship?
It depends entirely on which warranty. Base product warranties commonly do not include workmanship at all, while enhanced warranties available through certified contractors can provide specified workmanship protection when qualifying products are used. Identify the warranty by its actual name rather than accepting the word warranty on its own.
SolarHow does an optimizer system differ from microinverters?
An optimizer system puts DC power optimizers at the modules and a single central inverter elsewhere; a microinverter system puts a small inverter at each module. Both can provide module-level monitoring and rapid shutdown when properly designed -- they are different architectures rather than one being the upgrade of the other.