Long ranch-style home with a continuous black solar shingle roof under a blue sky

Real roofs

Solar Shingle Roof Projects

Finished roofs on homes, barns and multi-unit buildings, plus crews at work. This is what the shingle looks like on a real roof.

Pilot install · Minnesota

A Minnesota re-roof, from tear-off to solar.

A single-story ranch home with a low-slope 4:12 roof. One roofing crew tore off the old roof, rebuilt the deck and installed solar shingles on the garage plane, with standard shingles on the rest of the house.

Single-story ranch home with a worn dark roof and a dumpster in the driveway before the re-roof — **Before**The old roof on a single-story ranch home.

Roofing crew standing on bare roof framing after tear-off, straightening the rafters — **Truing up the rafters**After tear-off, the crew straightens the framing before new decking goes on.

Ranch home with new plywood roof decking, ladders against the eaves and a pickup truck in the driveway — **Roof rebuilt**Tear-off done and new decking down, ready for underlayment and shingles.

Roofing crew finishing a low-slope roof at dusk, with the solar shingle plane over the garage — **Wrapping up**The same roofing crew lays the solar shingles and the standard shingles.

Finished ranch home with black solar shingles over the garage and matching dark asphalt shingles on the house — **Done**Solar shingles on the garage plane, standard shingles on the rest.

Drone view of the finished roof: offset courses of solar shingles on one plane beside standard asphalt shingles — **From above**The offset courses of solar shingles sit flush with the shingles around them.

Homes

Project locations and system sizes are being added.

Classic stucco colonial home with solar shingles on its main roof — **Colonial home**

White farmhouse with a dark solar shingle roof above a backyard patio — **Farmhouse**

Red single-story home with a dark solar shingle roof that matches the neighborhood — **Single-story home**

Aerial view of a complex hip roof with solar shingles fitted to several planes — **Home with a hip roof**

Barns and multi-unit buildings

Aerial view of a multi-unit residential building with solar shingles on its sloped roof — **Multi-unit building**

Metal pole building with a band of solar shingles along the top of the roof — **Pole building**

Inside a pole barn looking up at solar shingles installed over exposed timber trusses — **Pole barn, from inside**

Installs underway

Roofing crew on a two-story home laying solar shingle courses with bundles of material on the roof — **Two-story home, install underway**

Glossy solar shingle roof plane reflecting the sky above a street with a green truck and a roofing trailer — **Home, install day**

Picture it on your own roof.

Solar shingles can cover a whole roof or the sunniest planes, with standard shingles on the rest. Courses are offset by 50%, which lets the shingles follow hips and valleys.

See how a roofing crew installs it, or check the shingle specs. For a building rather than a house, read about commercial pitched roofs.

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