Re-Roof Before
The Panels Go Up.
One in three Australian homes now has rooftop solar. If your roof has under ten years of life left, the cheapest move is re-roofing now — before the panels lock you into paying twice.
We do solar-prep installs: rail pre-positioning, extra noggings, and Colorbond profiles your installer can clamp directly. Your solar quote drops, your re-roof outlasts the panels, no warranty issues.
Why Solar Owners
Pay Twice.
Roofs Wear Out Before Panels
Solar panels last 25-30 years. Concrete tile fades at 15-25 years. Colorbond paint warranty is 20 years. If your roof is older than your dog, putting panels on top is buying a $30,000 problem for the year your tiles start cracking.
Removal & Refit Is Real Money
When the roof eventually needs work with panels installed, you pay your solar installer to remove them ($1,500-$3,000), wait for the roofer, then pay to refit ($1,500-$3,000). Often the panels get damaged in the process. Plus the roofer charges more to work around the existing array.
Penetrations Void Warranties
Solar installers drilling into Colorbond steel without correct flashing voids the BlueScope warranty (Technical Bulletin TB-36). Most don't follow it. We do — every penetration gets sealed flashing in the same Colorbond colour, photographed for the warranty record.
Solar-Prep Installs Save Time Later
When we re-roof for a solar-bound homeowner, we pre-position the rail mounting points and add extra noggings under the sheets where panels will sit. Your installer drops in clean — no fishing for studs, no compromise penetrations.
How Panels
Fix To Each Roof.
The roof material decides how panels mount. The mounting decides whether your roof warranty survives. Klip-Lok 700 is the gold standard for solar — clamp-on, no penetrations, ready out of the box.
Tile Roof Mounting
Stainless tile-hooks fixed to the rafter (never the batten — battens flex). Lifts the tile, hooks underneath, drops back. No tile drilling.
Clenergy SolarRoof tile-hook kits · Sungrip · Schletter
Colorbond Klip-Lok Mounting
Clamp-on rails grip the standing seam directly — no penetration, no drilling, no warranty issue.
Clenergy SunLock · Schletter Solo · IronRidge
Colorbond Custom Orb / Trimdek Mounting
Through-fix only — bolt drops through the crest, not the valley. EPDM-bonded washer + Colorbond-colour flashing. Photographed for warranty record.
BlueScope TB-36 compliant install only
Re-Roof + Solar Prep.
We do the re-roof and the solar-prep work in one visit. Klip-Lok 700 sheets where panels will sit, rail-mount pre-positioning, extra noggings under the sheets. Your solar installer drops in two weeks later — clean install, no compromise.
Re-Roof
Strip, sarking, insulation, Colorbond Klip-Lok 700 in your colour. 3-5 days.
Solar Prep
Rail-mount pre-positions, extra noggings, panel-zone documentation for the installer.
Hand Off
We send the panel-zone diagram + warranty pack to your solar installer. They install over 1-2 days.
Government Schemes
Still Active.
These are the federal and state schemes still available in May 2026. We don't install solar — but the timing of your re-roof relative to these matters, especially the STC step-down before 2030.
Small-scale Technology Certificates
Federal scheme. Phases to zero by 2030. STP rate 11.67% in 2026.
Federal Cheaper Home Batteries
Active from 1 July 2025. ~$372/kWh up to 50kWh. Stacks with state schemes.
PDRS · Empowering Homes
Active. Battery-only rebate; loan available for solar+battery combos.
Solar Coming In 2026?
Get your roof done first. We'll check the lifespan and tell you straight whether re-roofing makes sense before panels go up — or whether your current roof is fine and you should go straight to solar.
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