Each year, roof contractors get increasingly more requests for solar roofing as homeowners are becoming more energy conscious.
Some are interested, but due to finding traditional solar panels to be unattractive, opt against going solar.
The good news is that, due to the growing interest in better and more appealing solar options, there are now multiple types of solar that roof services can install on homes and buildings.
One of these new solar roofing ideas might be the perfect solution to have your roofer install!
- Traditional Solar Panels - While they are still panels installed on top of the roof, today’s solar panels are flatter, better looking, and more powerful than their predecessors. While they are still large panels installed by roof contractors on top of the existing roofing materials, lower-profile designs look less obvious and less clunky than the solar panels of the past. When matched with a dark roof, they blend more easily, too.
- Solar Shingles and Tiles - Available in multiple styles, solar shingles or tiles installed by roof services are smaller than panels, lighter in weight, and go on like regular shingles or tiles. With a variety of products out there today, some that roll out in strips, some that cover the entire roof, and others that lay on top of the existing shingles or integrate with concrete tiles, this is one area where roofers have seen a lot of advancement in recent years. Solar shingles are the closest thing to a standard shingle roof, but with the capability of solar. Some even look like traditional shingle roofing but with a slight shine to them.
- Metal-Look Solar Panels - Another newer advancement in solar roofing that some roofers can install are metal-look solar panels, which are a sort of hybrid between shingles and traditional panels. They are long, thin panels that install vertically to look like a typical standing seam metal roof. Of all the types, metal-look solar panels are possibly the least conspicuous.
If you are considering having a roofer install solar on your home sometime soon, be sure to research the many types of solar roofing now available today.
Gone are the days when thick, ugly panels were installed by roof contractors to cover the roof as now there are sleeker, lower profile panels, flat solar shingles, and metal-look solar that more closely mimic the more traditional materials we all recognize.
As solar technology continues to advance, the time is now to consider having roof services add solar for an energy-producing, attractive, and more sustainable roofing solution!