Or if you have to be in portrait you can run strut from peak to gutter and then add your rails to that. A little cumbersome and more material costs, so if you can get away with landscape it's definitely better.
Thanks, Gordon ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 06:55:22 -0700 > From: frenergy <frene...@psln.com> > To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> > Subject: [RE-wrenches] Goofy roofing > Message-ID: <3504a6c6-f711-364e-00c0-86baff558...@psln.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" > > Recently, a customer had a metal roof (not standing seam) installed by a > "handyman". Pretty clean installation however for some reason he ran > 1X6 stringers across the roof on the 1/2" plywood deck spaced about > every 4 feet (as you go from ridge to eaves). Of course the roofing > screws are at the stringers. I'm sure he had a /great/ reason for doing > so. So now I have been asked to install an array on this roof. You can > feel how "soft" the roof is as you walk on it of course because you are > walking on air-below-metal for most of the roof. Stringer locations > don't jive with possible feet/post locations for rail. I'm usually > pretty good at problem solving but I'm accepting ideas. > > Bill > > Feather River Solar Electric > Bill Battagin, Owner > 4291 Nelson St. > Taylorsville, CA 95983 > 530.284.7849 > CA Lic 874049 > www.frenergy.net > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org/attachments/20160429/7a62a058/attachment-0001.htm > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 06:56:18 -0700 > From: Kirpal Khalsa <solarwo...@gmail.com> > To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> > Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Goofy roofing > Message-ID: > <CAM5ziKfueFZ8PMFC1MBDuafpx3Z=V_d=DQthVCKqXi_2gAuF= > q...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Panels in landscape mode with rails running peak to gutter? > On Apr 29, 2016 6:54 AM, "frenergy" <frene...@psln.com> wrote: > > > Recently, a customer had a metal roof (not standing seam) installed by a > > "handyman". Pretty clean installation however for some reason he ran 1X6 > > stringers across the roof on the 1/2" plywood deck spaced about every 4 > > feet (as you go from ridge to eaves). Of course the roofing screws are > at > > the stringers. I'm sure he had a *great* reason for doing so. So now I > > have been asked to install an array on this roof. You can feel how > "soft" > > the roof is as you walk on it of course because you are walking on > > air-below-metal for most of the roof. Stringer locations don't jive with > > possible feet/post locations for rail. I'm usually pretty good at > problem > > solving but I'm accepting ideas. > > > > Bill > > > > Feather River Solar Electric > > Bill Battagin, Owner > > 4291 Nelson St. > > Taylorsville, CA 95983530.284.7849 > > CA Lic 874049www.frenergy.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > > > Change listserver email address & settings: > > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > > > List-Archive: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html > > > > List rules & etiquette: > > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > > > Check out or update participant bios: > > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org/attachments/20160429/c82dc32b/attachment-0001.htm > > > > >
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