How to Measure Your Roof
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Tape measure, measuring reel, clip board and pencil. |
Fall Restraint, proper foot wear, & gloves (optional) |
| In order to find out how many modules you can fit or where you have space available, you need to create a scaled drawing of your roof. Here's how you do that | ||
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Start by going up on your roof a creating a basic sketch of the shape of your roof. Don't worry about scale, just draw all the features. If there's a vent tube, skylight, chimney or furnace exhaust draw it in it's approximate location.
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Now take your tape measure or measuring reel and measure each of the dimensions you'll need to create your scaled drawing. Again, if you have a vent tube, measure how far down from the ridge it is and how far from the side/edge of the roof |
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Next, jot all these numbers down Remember, you're not building the Space Shuttle here, To the closest inch should suffice.
TIP: Two people can make this task go MUCH quicker. . |
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Here's the drawing you should come down the ladder with.
The next step is to create a scaled drawing. This is perhaps the task that takes the most skill in the whole installation.
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And here's the final scaled drawing of the roof. Now draw some rectangles that are scaled to the dimensions of the modules you are getting and move them around to determine best fit/positioning. TIP: Keep out of areas that are shaded between 9-4pm and away from vent tubes and exhaust vents for same reason.
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That Solar Guy can turn your
sketch into a scaled drawing.