<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Corrugated is really a pain to flash, but the ProPanel type roofing is really easy to work with. It has large (6 to 8"? wide) sections to put mounting feet down on.<div>Only problem is if the rafter you need, ends up falling under a metal ridge.</div><div>Snow slides off metal roofs all at once in big clumps, so be sure and start your top row at or close to the peak of the roof. </div><div>I've heard of built up snow sliding all at once on a sunny day, and taking the array with it.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>R. Walters</div><div><a href="mailto:ray@solarray.com">ray@solarray.com</a></div><div>Solar Engineer</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span>
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<br><div><div>On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Chris Daum wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"><div dir="ltr" align="left"><o:p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#800000"><span class="177075402-20102010">Dear Wrenches:</span></font></o:p></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><o:p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#800000"><span class="177075402-20102010"></span></font></o:p> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><o:p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#800000"><span class="177075402-20102010">I have a composite (shingle) roof at hand, and the owner wants to upgrade it to a metal roof and install a 5kw+ array on it. The rafters are those (sort of) particle board I-beams covered with 1/2" plywood (and shingles). What's the best metal roofing you could suggest--and would you beef up the wood to lag into?</span></font></o:p></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><o:p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#800000"><span class="177075402-20102010"></span></font></o:p> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><o:p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#800000"><span class="177075402-20102010">Thanks for all your input.</span></font></o:p></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><o:p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#800000"><span class="177075402-20102010"></span></font></o:p> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><o:p><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#800000"><span class="177075402-20102010"><div align="left"><div align="left"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2">Chris Daum</font></div><div align="left"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2">Oasis Montana Inc.</font></div><div align="left"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2">406-777-4309</font></div><div align="left"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="2">406-777-0830 fax</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080" size="3"><span class="046344020-29052008"></span></font></div></div></span></font></o:p></div>_______________________________________________<br>List sponsored by Home Power magazine<br><br>List Address:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a><br><br>Options & settings:<br><a href="http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org</a><br><br>List-Archive:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org</a><br><br>List rules & etiquette:<br><a href="http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm</a><br><br>Check out participant bios:<br><a href="http://www.members.re-wrenches.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.members.re-wrenches.org</a><br><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>