I’m a big fan of solar panels but the alignment could’ve been better!
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I thought Tesla had solar shingles that were supposed to be hail etc proof? EDIT: found it https://www.tesla.com/solarroof
Why is that mildly infuriating?
if I had to guess, probably the lack of proper alignment.
Ohhhhh… I thought it was going to be the chimneys apparently held in place with duct tape.
I think it’s lead cladding.
It’s lead flashing which I think is used to protect the joint between the chimney and the roof.
Haha, very well may be. I know nothing about that stuff. I guess I should have said “appears to be duct tape”. Blowing the picture up it is definitely not that. It’s definitely metal flashing of some sort.
Yeah I’m not exactly a roof/chimney sealing method aficionado either lol. Could be some nonsense my brain threw up.
That’s not duct tape, that’s lead cladding
That too
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Ah! Gotcha, that is a little annoying.
Mildy, yes
It would really irritate me if I had to look at it for the next 25 year 😂
You could even say it’s… mildly infuriating.
After being conditioned to seeing really infuriating posts on r/mildlyinfuriating, this one caught me by surprise lol. Wish more posts were like this.
I think it’s the “infuriating” thing. Like that word makes me think of anger. I can’t imagine actually getting mad about this, but I agree that a lot of “mildly” infuriating posts are really just rage inducing.
for me its the top left panel being partially shaded. thats going to really reduce its functionality.
One might even say mildly annoying.
Based on the comment with the image, the alignment of those top two panels compared to everything else being uniform.
My website after I fail again at CSS ^
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But they did on the other side? And holes are holes (he said) so all of them need to be sealed.
I have tried to explain that to my wife a hundred times.
It could just be the angle OP is seeing it from that makes it look like the right side is closer.
They usually attach a steel structure to the outside of the roof, then they attach the panels to those.
That should give them all the freedom they need to put the panels wherever looks good.
omg thank you.
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The variable kerning is a really nice touch.
Comic Sans or Papyrus font would have been a nice cherry on top.
I’m not a deisgner and you pissed me off…
deisgner
I’m not a designer and the two of you pissed me off.
Add a stretched photo somewhere in there.
…wait a second… are you just trying to get me murdered by a mob of angry designers?
It does like a little annoying, but since I’m not a roofer or solar panel installer I feel like there’s probably a reason for this that I don’t know.
There is. They have to be installed on the rafters/trusses and the skylight is in the way of being able to put them all on the same rafter/truss.
They’re usually 16 inches in center so moving over one rafter would put that row off by 16 inches. They probably have the panel installed as far to the end of the support track that they can so it’s only a little bit off instead of a full 16 inches.
Too credible and reasonable an answer, downdooted
I choose to believe this. Obviously whoever did this is a professional and there’s got to be a good reason it was done. All these keyboard solar installation critics are lame drama junkies…
P erfect!
This is like adding an image to a word document.
"hi! I’ve added your picture
spoiler
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next to the text you wanted!"
ocd, you’ll like this
Look on the bright side. You can place the plunger right next to the stove and it has space to stand.
hell, i think it’s cool. maybe the upper left set of squares could move right a couple inches, but they look good!
I mean, that’s exactly the part of it that’s mildly infuriating, though…
I mean, that’s exactly the part of it that’s mildly infuriating, though…
i just watched this post get: 1.65k, then 1.5k, then 24, then 5, then 64, and now 5 upvotes… how?
It’s a lemmy glitch happens a lot.
thanks thanks. I just thought it was a bot swarm
Stupid lemmy. Making me think my posts are blowing up, when really it’s 2 upvotes. Just like my trash OC on Reddit.
What’s wrong with it?
I think he is talking about the difference between the left and right window margins.
Aesthetically bothersome to be sure
I’d like to believe that we are in a transitional period with solar panels, and soon it will be more common for them to just be an integral part of the roof. However I don’t see much uptake for the companies that have tried offering such products. Has anyone seen a house with integrated panels?
That sounds way more expensive and like it has way more points of failure if you live somewhere that occasionally gets hail, tornadoes, or hurricanes. I can only speak for those locations as that’s primarily where I’ve lived, but I would much prefer my roof to be a roof then to chance anything coming in.
Well yeah I agree that when you try to meld two things into one you generally get something more expensive than both which doesn’t perform as well as either. For something as common and well established as roofing materials, it’s going to be very very hard to beat conventional roofs on price and performance while adding electricity generation. Though to be fair, conventional solar panels probably get ripped apart in a hurricane, too.
My worry is less them getting ripped apart during a storm and more the potential hole they could leave behind due to their destruction. Any hole in a continuous surface is a weak point.
Not gonna happen, house are insanely cheaply built these days.
Needs government regulation to force it, otherwise they’ll just do the cheapest thing
You will need overhead panels which can be walked upon. They are more expensive. You will also need to provide sealed gaps for thermal expansion.
I think Elon’s SolarCity company did something like that but it failed because of inefficiency of the panels and just expensive to install. To be fair I think having this is better than no solar panels at all. I think this will remain common until those two I mentioned with SolarCity gets resolved.
I agree. I have panels. They’re ugly as shit. But they help.
There are multiple companies that offer solar tiles (for example: https://terran-generon.com/), but they have lower efficiency, cost more and have more points of failure than solar panels. Another problem is, tiles usually stay on the roof for much longer than the average lifespan of a solar panel and it’s much easier/cheaper to replace solar panels than solar tiles (without retiling the whole roof).
