Guards for Your Energy-Efficient Home

1. Guards for Your Energy-Efficient Home When looking to build an energy-efficient home, you should always start with the right roof. Metal roofs can easily be paired with solar panels, and they are energy efficient on their own, partnering to create an economically wise and environmentally friendly solution to the energy that the average family consumes daily. Besides that, they are more environmentally friendly to produce. You will need to buy mounts for your roof, but these are relatively easy to find and you can usually find a quality company to install them on your roof. These companies also usually create guards to protect your roof and add-ons from damage. Once they're there, they begin making back the money they cost immediately. Especially when paired with a metal roof, solar panels are an incredible move toward energy Independence for an individual home. You can install solar panels any time of year, but probably the best time to install them is in the summer. In the summer, the sun is out for the longest, and you can

2. truly see how helpful your addition of energy collection will be to your family. Plus, in December, there are fewer storms and cold fronts that come in, so it is less likely that weather will damage your newly installed add-ons. Unfortunately, if you live in a colder climate, solar panels can also be damaged by snowfall. So can metal roofs. When a storm’s ice builds up on metal roofs, the ice compacts into frozen slabs that can crack or damage the roof and slide off to be a danger to those below.

3. The snow can also damage your energy collection process. You can combat this grim reality with specially made guards for your roof. Snow guards for solar panels protect them from heavy compacted drifts by disrupting the fall and allowing it to melt in smaller patches, not together in larger, dangerous slabs. Solar panels need to be insulated against the snow and cold of northern winters. To protect your solar panels and your roof, installing snow guards is probably a good idea. Metal roofing can pair with snow guards for solar panels easily, since many add-ons are created specifically to pair with metal roofs. There are companies who specialize in these kinds of guards, and they will be able to help you find the best way to engineer a snow guard solution for your home. TRA Snow and Sun sells quality snow guards for metal roofs. Contact them today to find the best engineered layout for your snow guards for solar panels.