Solar Panels in Colleyville Start With the Roof Under Them

In Colleyville, 97 percent of homes are owner occupied, and half were built before 1994 (U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024). Owners can decide on solar for their own roof, and many of those roofs have been replaced at least once. Knowing the age of your current roof is the first step, because it decides whether you install now or replace first.

Hail is the other part of the picture. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center logged 37 hail reports of 1.75 inches or larger within 10 miles of the city from 2015 through 2024, topping out at 4 inches on June 11, 2023. Ask the panel maker how its glass is rated for impact, and know that storms can damage both the panels and the roof around them.

The most common regret with solar is not the panels but the roof under them. An array that goes onto a roof with only a few good years left has to come off when that roof is replaced, which adds a second project to the first. Planning the two together avoids that. If replacement is near, doing it first lets the new roof and the panels start their lives at the same time.

It also helps to think about service access. Leave room around the array for crews to reach vents, valleys and edges. A roof that cannot be reached cannot be maintained.

GemSco handles both the roof and the panels, so one team looks at the whole system. Learn about our solar panel installation service, or if you need to replace the roof first, see roof replacement in Colleyville.