Solar in Orlando meets a roof that is already losing a fight with inland heat. That is the first subject, not the sky. Shingles bake here. Decks get soft. An array fastened to a covering that needs to come off will come off with it, or it will stand in the way of the roof work. Start with age, shade, and whether the attic underneath is an oven. Oaks on older lots shade more than a driveway glance suggests. Open subdivision roofs take the full day and the full temperature.
Modules produce less as they heat up, and an Orlando roof in the afternoon is a hot place to ask them to work. Thunderstorms then cut the late day off entirely, so a layout that assumes an unbroken arc of sun is not this site. Wind still matters when a storm comes inland. Attachments belong in the structure, flashed against wind-driven rain, not balanced on a tired shingle. Hail that bruises the covering can bruise the field of modules too. Say if this roof has already met hail.
A person should be on the roof before a layout is trusted. Aerial images miss soft decking, a buried valley, and an electrical panel with no room left. Ask which module and inverter are specified, where the inverter will live in a hot garage, and who you call when production falls off or the inverter goes quiet. If the association has a rule about the slope that faces the street, say it now.
Permits and the utility permission to operate are part of doing the work, not an extra. Ask who files them and what changes if the answer comes back different. Leave money off this call. The question is whether this hot roof, this shade, and this storm pattern can carry the hardware. If the covering is finished, replace it first. Call the number on this page.
