Project notes
About the project
This Hialeah Gardens home has a Spanish barrel-tile roof — the kind that looks beautiful from the curb but makes solar contractors nervous. Tile doesn't forgive sloppy installs: the wrong hook or flashing can crack a tile six months after you leave, and a crack in Florida means a leak. Sprightful specced standoff mounts bolted with stainless-steel hardware directly into the roof trusses below, each one paired with a flashing that replaces the tile entirely rather than trying to clamp over it. The wind load transfers into the home's structural frame, not the tile — the South-Florida-grade approach we use on every tile roof. The result is a watertight roof that looks cleaner than before the install.
On the electrical side, we paired 27 Jinko 365-watt panels with 27 Enphase IQ 7+ microinverters — one microinverter per panel. That means every panel operates independently, so partial shading from a neighbor's tree or a passing cloud doesn't drag down the whole array, and the homeowners get panel-level production data right in their phone. Start to finish, the install took 8 days in October 2021.