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About the project
This Deerfield Beach home has a flat-tile roof — the low-profile concrete 'flat' tile common in 1970s-era South Florida, which is notoriously hard to mount solar on. Most installers either refuse the job or drill straight through the tile, which guarantees a leak. Sprightful's approach is different: for each attachment point we lift the original tile, bolt a standoff with stainless-steel hardware directly into the roof truss below, seat a matched metal flashing against the underlayment around the standoff, and reset the tile around it. No penetrations of the tile itself, no cracked tile, no leaks — and the full wind load transfers into the home's structural frame rather than the brittle surface above.
The panels themselves are Jinko 440-watt high-efficiency modules — the highest-wattage residential panel Sprightful was shipping in 2021 — paired one-for-one with Enphase IQ 7A microinverters. The array went from bare roof to producing power in six days (Oct 22–27, 2021) and has been quietly offsetting the homeowners' FPL bill ever since.