Solar in Denver goes on a roof that hail already knows how to find, a mile high, often shaded by a street tree and crossed by vents, a chimney, and sometimes a cooler. Covering a bruised or aging covering is how the next leak becomes an argument. South slopes take sun and storms. West slopes take the afternoon. Alleys do not make the back slope imaginary. Snow slides off these roofs onto walks, lower porches, and glass. An array changes the slide. Wind is real and is not the constant foothill blow of the Springs. It is still enough to take a casual fastening seriously. A photo from above has not seen hail bruises or the deck.
Ask for a person on the roof. Ask the age of the covering and whether roof work happens before attachments, especially if the last hail is still a question. Ask the flashing detail and who stands behind a leak at a penetration that will be blamed on a thaw. Ask how the array comes off later. Ask where snow will land. Ask whether the attic is hot enough to build ice dams, because modules do not fix a ventilation problem and can complicate it. Clay-racked chimneys and crooked flashings should be named before they are surrounded.
Open the panel. Bungalows can be modest. Houses that added air conditioning later can be full. Ask for the module and the inverter to be named. Ask who sees production and who you call when a section goes quiet after a storm or under snow. Ask who pulls the permit and who files the interconnection, and whether the system waits for permission to operate. Ask whether you will own the equipment.
Street trees in a tree lawn can shade a south plane that looked clear in winter and fills in by June. Say what leafs out over the roof. Hail, shade, and a brick chimney are the Denver constraints, and the call should start there.
Bring the roof and the last hail, not a bill pitch. Call the number on this page.