The honest answer: it is priced per panel, and the exact number depends on five things about your roof and your system. Here is how the price is actually built, what a real quote includes, and how to get your exact number the same day — free.
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Every legitimate detach & reset company in Arizona prices the same way: a rate per panel, multiplied by your panel count, adjusted for the specifics of the job. Companies that quote one flat number sight-unseen are either padding it heavily to cover surprises or planning a change order once they are on your roof.
The per-panel price covers two visits, not one: the detach (label, disconnect, remove and store every panel and its wiring) and the reset (remount, flash and seal every roof penetration, torque to spec, re-commission the system and verify it is producing). If a quote seems dramatically cheap, one of those halves is usually missing something — most often the sealing and the verification, which are exactly the parts that come back to bite you.
Because a rate without your panel count, roof type and racking condition is not a price — it is bait. Send the address, the panel count and one roof photo and you will have your exact number the same business day, usually within hours. The number on the quote is the number on the invoice.
Our detach & reset price includes: labeling and safe disconnection, tile-safe handling, staging or storage, remounting with every penetration flashed and sealed to manufacturer spec, hardware torqued to spec, re-commissioning, a production test, panel cleaning before we leave, a photo report after the detach and after the reset, and a 10–20 year workmanship warranty backed by our 100% money-back no-leak guarantee. Permits and utility paperwork are handled where the jurisdiction requires them.
Comparing bids? Ask every company the same five questions: Is sealing every penetration included, in writing? Who pays if a tile breaks? Is the system re-commissioned and production-verified, or just switched on? What workmanship warranty covers the mounts — and for how long? And is the crew W2 or a subcontractor? Our answers: yes; we do; verified with a report; 10–20 years; and six in-house W2 crews, zero subcontracted labor.
Two-story homes with steep tile, systems with no reusable racking, panels relocated to a different roof plane, storage across a long re-roof, and repairs discovered under the array (chewed wiring, failing mounts) that you approve before we touch them. None of these should ever appear as a surprise on an invoice — they should be in the quote or in a written change you approved.
Either works, and it is worth settling before the job is scheduled. Many Arizona roofers include our work as a line item in their re-roof proposal; just as often, we bill you directly so the solar work stays separate from the roofing contract. If your roofer has not picked a solar sub yet, have them call us — we are the detach & reset partner for roofing contractors across the state, and coordinating the two schedules is most of what makes a re-roof with solar painless.
Doing an insurance re-roof after storm damage? The detach & reset is normally part of the claim scope. Our storm & insurance page covers how the documentation works.
The full service: how the two visits work, the 7-step process, and the no-leak guarantee.
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