Solar in Kentucky starts with a damp roof and real summer sun, not with a sketch from the sky. Humidity and shade grow algae under the future array and soften deck before any mount should go down. Hail and wind still mark slopes, especially on open lots. Snow is a short visitor, but ice can slide off a metal valley and tug at hardware. Eastern ridges and hollows change how many hours a slope actually sees. If the covering is tired or mossy, that talk comes before modules.
Someone should stand on the roof. A sky photo misses soft deck, tired flashing, and an electrical service that may be original to an older house. Ask who answers for a leak at a mount in a climate where rain is frequent and wind-driven. Ask how the array comes off when the roof is replaced. Hardware has to live with heat, moisture, and the occasional freeze. Say if trees own the southern sky for half the day.
Name the modules and the inverters as specific gear. String equipment and module-level electronics behave differently when a tree or a ridge shades one corner by afternoon. You should know who you call when an inverter goes quiet. Say whether the equipment should be yours. A barn or garage roof is not the house roof, and a damp shaded deck is a poor place to pretend otherwise. Heat in the attic under the array belongs in the layout talk.
Permits and the utility permission to operate are part of the job. Ask who files them and what changes if a soft slope forces the layout to move. Summer output and a gray wet week are not the same, and that is the climate. Do not cover a roof you already know has to come off. Say the town so a hollow, a ridge, and a river lot are not drawn as one site.
Say the age of the roof, which way it faces, and whether algae or shade already owns the surface. Mention hail or wind marks you can see from the yard. Call the number on this page.