Solar panel removal and reinstallation, done with the roof.

A solar array is bolted through the roof deck on mounts that are flashed into the shingle courses. There is no way to tear off and replace the roof under a live array, so a reroof on a house with solar is always two trades in a fixed order: panels off, roof rebuilt, panels back on. Done as two separate contracts it turns into a scheduling problem, and worse, a finger-pointing problem the first time a mount leaks, because the roofer blames the solar installer's penetration and the solar installer blames the roofer's flashing.

We take that whole risk off your plate by owning both halves. The panels come off and are stored safely on site or staged, the roof is torn off and rebuilt with new underlayment and proper flashing at every future mount location, and the array goes back on the new roof and is reconnected. Because the same company set the mounts and the shingles, there is one warranty conversation about the roof around your solar, not two companies pointing at each other.

On a covered hail loss this is not an out-of-pocket surprise. The detach and reset is a documented, claimable part of the roof replacement, because the work is only necessary because the roof is being replaced. We scope it, photograph it and put it in the estimate the same way we scope the roof itself.

A common worry is that the array will not perform the same once it has been off and back on. It will, because we label every panel by its position and return it to the same spot, and we coordinate the reconnection and any monitoring re-commission the system needs rather than leaving it half done. The only time an array performs differently after a reset is when the racking was re-secured carelessly or a mount was resealed over an old hole, and those are exactly the shortcuts we do not take. Because Alta sets both the flashing and the mounts, the person who reinstalls your solar is the same person who warranties the roof it sits on.

Timing matters too. A roof with solar is down for the window between the detach and the reset, so we plan that window to be as short as the roof allows and we do not pull the panels until the crew and the materials are staged to start. That is the difference between a system that is off for a day or two around the tear-off and one that sits disconnected for a fortnight because two contractors could not line their calendars up.