Re-roofing a solar panelled roof should only ever be attempted by someone with the knowledge and expertise to carry out the entire project. If you have a solar panelled roof and are in need of it re-roofing, our teams have the expertise and experience to remove your solar panels, re-roof your property and re-instate your solar panels without any issues.
We will ensure:
Solar panels definitely have to be removed prior to re-roofing a property. They should be stored in a safe place for the duration of the works. It is important to know that most roofers will be reluctant to remove the solar panels and may ask you to arrange for your original solar installer to remove them.
A competent roofer should never ask you to arrange the removal of solar panels prior to them commencing re-roofing works. Unfortunately many do! We carry out the whole works from start to finish and provide an insurance backed warranty at the and of the work. Our teams have been carrying out this type of work for over 20 years and all are NVQ qualified roofers with years of experience in installing solar PV systems.
Don’t ever contract a roofer who expects you, the customer, to arrange for the solar panels to be removed and reinstated yourself!
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Green and Heritage Roofing staff have a deep routed history in the solar industry having installed thousands of solar panels over the years. They are are extremely proficient at re-roofing a property with a solar panelled roof and reinstating the existing solar panel systems.
Chris Hopkins, Managing Director of Green and Heritage Roofing has a long history in training and upskilling roofers to install solar PV, having previously run his own construction training centre.
Some 16 years ago Chris teamed up with the National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC) and ‘Construction Skills’ with his then business, Ploughcroft Ltd. The sole aim was to develop a unique training course which would train roofers in the key competencies and best practice of installing solar PV and solar thermal.
Chris trained roofers throughout the UK and the training course he developed went on to be recognised by the City and Guilds and CITB and is now a NVQ 3 qualification (QCF VR 298).
Chris’s dedication to training roofers in the installation of solar panels resulted in him being awarded the National Home Improvement Council Award for Innovation in training 2007 and the ‘Exceptional Contribution to Training’ award from the National Federation of Roofing Contractors in 2011. Chris went on to be recognised for his hard work throughout the roofing industry over the last decade by being awarded the award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Roofing Industry’ in 2018.
The team we have at Green and Heritage Roofing today have been trained by and worked with Chris for many years. Some even started as apprentices straight out of school at 16 and are still with us some 15 years later!
If you have had solar PV installed in the last 12 years and you’re now finding you are looking to re-roof your property then the answer to the above is probably ‘Yes”!
During the solar boom between 2009 and 2012 homeowners rushed to get solar PV installed whilst the financial incentives of the Feed-in Tariff were very lucrative.
However the rush to get solar PV installed resulted in inexperienced or unqualified ‘roofers’ carrying out a large proportion of the work. Salespeople were usually not experienced roofing surveyors and largely commission led. As a result, solar panels were installed by inexperienced ‘roofers’ who failed to follow best practice on properties which had roofs that were either defective or already in need of re-roofing, leaving a multitude of hidden and costly problems for the future.
Nearly 15 years down the line and the roofs of some of these properties are already starting to fail.
Any roofing works which needs to be carried out on a solar panelled roof comes at a considerable expense. As a broad brush figure this is roughly £200 per square metre.
Remembering back to the ‘solar boom’ of around 2011 the main concern customers had at the time was the warranty of the solar panel inverter! With the lure of a shiny new solar PV system very few thought about the true underlying cost of having a solar PV system installed which would undoubtedly be the cost of carrying out roof maintenance under the installed PV panels at a later date.
Cheap ‘job-in’ roofers are unlikely to be skilled enough to deal with this type of situation. Scaffolding is always required. The panels need to be removed by someone who is experienced and the bracketry system which is installed after the roofing work is carried out needs installing correctly to prevent your new roof from leaking.
The expertise required to do this type of work doesn’t come cheap and nor should it do as it needs to be carried out by a highly skilled tradesperson!
Green and Heritage Roofing are professional solar roofing contractors with vast experience of re-roofing properties with solar panelled roofs throughout the Yorkshire region, including Halifax, Bradford, Leeds, Huddersfield, Skipton, Harrogate and surrounding areas.
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