The VertX bundle
VertX prices, permits, and manages a new roof and a solar system as one project, roof first and panels second, for homes across the San Gabriel Valley and Southern California. Hire a solar company and a roofer separately, and you become the general contractor. This page is why that matters to your wallet.
Solar panels are a 25-year asset. If your roof has eight years left, someone will eventually pay to take those panels off, re-roof, and put them back, typically thousands of dollars, and that someone is you. Solar salespeople rarely mention it, because checking the roof risks losing the sale.
We check first, on purpose. If the roof is ready, great: solar goes on it. If it isn't, we price the roof and the system as one project, financed together, built in the right order.
"If a leak shows up under the array in year six, who do I call?" Ask any solar company that question. When the roof and the array were two separate contracts, the honest answer is a shrug. Ask VertX and the answer is one phone number: we sold the project, pulled the permits, and managed both trades, so we are the ones who make it right.
Where we do this
Each city has its own page: the utility, the permit path, fire-zone status, and the kind of homes we see there.
Common questions
It can, and this is the industry's quiet problem. When one company owns the roof warranty and a different company drills into that roof, most roofing warranties exclude the penetrated areas, and leak claims turn into finger-pointing. When both trades run through VertX as one managed project, the roof and the mounts are planned together and one company stays on the hook for making it right.
One permit package instead of two, one mobilization instead of two, mounts flashed into the roof as it is built rather than cut in afterward, and one 25-year warranty covering the whole assembly. It is also usually cheaper than doing the projects a year apart.
Probably not. If your roof is young and sound, we will confirm that in the assessment and install solar on it as-is. This bundle is for the large number of homes whose roofs have less life left than the panels going on top.
Typical build time is days, not months: tear-off and re-roof first, then racking and panels, often within the same week. The longer poles are city permitting and utility permission-to-operate, which we manage and keep you updated on.
Yes. We price the roof and the system as one project, so it is one contract and one financing conversation instead of a roofing loan plus a solar loan. Which program fits depends on your situation, and we go through the options in writing at quote time.
Roof first, always. The array bolts into the roof structure, so the roof has to be finished before racking goes on. When VertX manages both, the mounts and flashing are planned into the new roof instead of cut into a finished one later.
Usually the whole roof. Re-roofing only the area under the array leaves you with two roofs of different ages and a seam that has to be flashed and will fail first. There are cases where a partial makes sense, and if yours is one, we will say so.
