We wanted to get as much done as possible early in the morning, because that shiny roof is like a miserable tanning bed once the sun hits it.
We got the rest of the mounting feet installed, then rode the old scissor lift down to pre-assemble all the rails on the ground.
While I took care of some busy work, Denise got all 30 rail assemblies put together and loaded on the reach lift for their ride to the roof.
About halfway through attaching the rails to the feet, we discovered there was something of a math error with the racking BOM and it left us short on mounting hardware. Shit!
And just like that, 90 dollars worth of missing parts ground the whole job to a halt.
Between some strange communication issues, and a supplier that was super busy that day, it took several hours to arrange the parts for will call in Flagstaff, which is about two hours away. One of the camp staff went to go pick the parts up towards the end of the day, and would return with them Thursday morning.
Once we had managed to get the missing parts at least on their way, it was time to try and do what we could to salvage what was left of the day.
We finished mounting what rails we had hardware for, and staged the other rails so they were ready when their hardware showed up.
As daylight faded, our last task was to figure out how we wanted to do wire management and exactly how we wanted to arrange our home run PV circuits up on the roof.
For that, we peeled a couple panels off the stack and flipped them over to mock up what they would be installed like on the roof.
Once that was done, we were tired, it was late, and there was nothing left to do but have a cocktail and hope that tomorrow had less setbacks.
Welcome to construction out in the middle of nowhere. LOL.