Monday, November 24, 2008

New Roof Please





In order to learn how to install solar panels on a roof, you need to get on a roof and practice. Since the program is growing, and since it is a small state school, if you want a second practice roof, you build it yourself. Tom got some students together to build a new roof. We'll put it on the ground in our yard, so it is easy to get up and down, and the potential fall off it is less severe. 

Since Tom is an engineer, he has a complex set of plans, and some scheme to "flip the roof" after a few years of service, once too many holes have been punched in it by different groups of students and multiple sets of panels. Before getting started I verified that any "flip the roof" occurrence would happen well after I'm gone. ("Flip the roof" sounds too much like "Drop the roof" for me!)



1 comment:

hog said...

How come your always behind the camera when the work is getting done? Does the hardhat get in the way of your viewfinder?