Skytech Solar

Description of Work: Installed 25 solar panels on my tar-and-gravel roof, along with 2 Sunny Boy inverters and electrical conduits.

Description of Work: It's a little difficult to know how to evaluate this project; it is the largest project, in both time and cost, that I've ever had done on our home. I don't really have anything to compare against, in evaluating them. So I'll compare against other, smaller contracting jobs that I've had done, as best as I can. | |The good: |> I had much confidence in the original sales person that I dealt with; unlike the other solar company that I contacted, he did not give me a high-pressure sales assault, he just talked about what they offered, how they would evaluate my requirements to design my system, and answered all questions clearly. |> Everybody that I dealt with at Skytech Solar, responded promptly and completely to my email queries, either to provide status or answer questions. |> All work, with one exception (covered later) was done quickly and with excellent quality. The county building-inspector visit went smoothly and quickly; everything was completely up to code, he gave his approval and was gone in about half an hour. | |Not so good: |> The price included about $2600 to replace our 50-year-old power panel in back. I was aware of this issue from previous dealings with it, so was not surprised. The contractor that handled this task, was quite skilled in electrical work, but when he went to re-install the stucco around the edges, he did an appalling job; stucco spread all over the panel, bulging out up to 1" in some areas, not even flush with the wall in others. He kept justifying this by saying "I'm really not good at applying stucco"; but I wish he'd just left that job for someone else to do. By the time Skytech people came by to look at it, it was hard as rock, couldn't even be chiseled. At that point, I really didn't want to deal with tearing it all out and doing it over, so I told them to just paint over it (it's in the back of house, so rarely seen by anyone). Still, it left a bit of bad taste in my mouth. This is the only less-than-professional aspect to the entire experience. | |Also, it took over 5 months from signing the contract to turning on the power; I had hoped to use the 30% federal tax credit on this year's taxes, but it took too long to get the job done. I have *no* idea if this is standard for such a large job, maybe it is. | |Anyway, the system is installed and running, and runs beautifully!! They designed the system to generate 110% of our average usage over previous two years, and it's generating very well; the first day was mostly cloudy, and it was still generating up to 1.9KW; maximum output is 4KW. I like being able to log into the system with a web browser, and monitor it's output. | |We are quite happy with our solar installation, and recommend Skytech Solar to anyone else who wants to do this.

Description of Work: Install small (3kW DC) residential rooftop solar array consisting of 10 LG Mono-X Neon panels and Enphase M-250 inverters.