Irving roofing & solar updates
Updated August 31, 2026 for Irving homeowners.
Solar on an Irving roof: the question to settle first
Before anything else: how old is the roof?
Panels last 25 to 30 years. If your Irving roof has eight years left, you are
looking at paying to remove and reset an entire array partway through — a
cost that rarely shows up in the sales presentation. Removal and reinstall on a
typical residential array is not a small number.
The sequence that saves people money:
- Get an honest roof-age assessment. Not from the solar salesman.
- If the roof is within about seven years of replacement, do the
roof first, then mount panels on a new deck.
- If there's storm damage, find out whether the roof is an insurance claim
before panels go on. Panels complicate every future claim on that
roof.
We do both trades, which means we have no incentive to tell you the roof is
fine when it isn't. That's the whole reason to use one company for both.
Ventilation, insulation, and the Irving energy bill
A roof replacement is the one moment when the entire top of your Irving house
is open and accessible. It's the cheapest opportunity you'll ever have to fix
what's underneath it — and most people don't get offered the chance.
Worth doing while we're up there:
- Correct the intake/exhaust balance. Most homes are
exhaust-heavy and intake-starved, which is worse than no ventilation at
all.
- Add a radiant barrier to the underside of the decking on
a re-deck.
- Seal attic bypasses — the gaps around can lights,
top plates and chases where conditioned air escapes into the attic.
- Bring insulation up to depth in a house that's settled to
half its original R-value.
None of it is expensive relative to the roof itself. All of it is expensive
to do later.
Solar panels and your roof warranty in Irving
Mounting an array means putting dozens of penetrations through a roof you
just paid for. In Irving that raises two questions worth settling in writing
before anything gets drilled.
Who warranties the penetrations? If your roofer did the roof
and a different company mounts the panels, you now have two contractors who can
each point at the other when a leak appears at a mount. Getting both from one
company eliminates that argument entirely — which is a large part of why we
do both trades.
What happens when the roof needs work later? Panels have to
come off and go back on. Know the cost of removal and reinstall now,
before you sign, and get it in the contract.
Also: flashed mounts, not sealant-dependent mounts. A mount
that relies on a bead of sealant to stay watertight is relying on something
with a shorter life than your roof.