Hail and Farewell: Roof Damage Leads Evanston Residents to Replace Decades-Old Solar Panels With PVs
Print Crews remove the 35-year-old solar panels from this home on Cleveland Street so the hail-damaged roof can be repaired. (Photo from Jeff Balch) Late-winter hail damaged many homes here, and for Jeff Balch and Dori Conn repairing the roof on their Cleveland Street home meant taking down the solar panels that had heated water in the house for decades. “After last year’s hailstorm we checked for and found roof damage, which our insurance company agreed to repair,” Mr. Balch said. “The adjuster asked us to remove our solar thermal panels to facilitate the work. I then made our key p...
Source: evanstonroundtable.com