A Day on the Roof with Yehuda Gittelson, Solar Installer
The drive from East Bayside to the job site in Cape Elizabeth takes about 25 minutes, longer if the Route 1 bridge backs up. Yehuda Gittelson leaves before 7 a.m. most mornings, thermos wedged between the seats of his Subaru, radio off. He uses the quiet time to think through the day's install before he arrives: roof pitch, panel count, inverter placement, and where the conduit will need to run through the attic. By the time he pulls into a...