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Mount flashing sheds water onto intact shingles or slate, because the flashing flange tucks under the upslope course while a flashing sitting on top of the course is a leak path, per the NRCA Rooftop PV Guidelines and IronRidge. On a Short Hills slate or tile estate roof, each attachment matches the roof-covering manufacturer instructions with a compatible sealant, because deviation voids the roofing warranty, per the NRCA and Solar Power World.

Roof-structure load carries the array dead load before install on Millburn's early-20th-century high-style homes, because uplift and required ballast follow ASCE 7, with corner and perimeter zones needing more ballast than the field, per ASCE 7. A Newark Quality Roofing assessment verifies the structure on the slate, copper, tile, and cedar stock that defines the township's residential market.

Roof age sets the sequence, because crystalline-silicon modules operate roughly 25 to 30-plus years, per NREL and the DOE, so a covering with less remaining service life than the array is replaced first to avoid removing and reinstalling the panels mid-roof. The downtown Millburn village and Mall at Short Hills storefronts carry the low-slope membrane side of the same work.

Tree-canopy shading from the heavy oak and maple cover over the Short Hills estate lots and the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum limits which roof planes generate, because Millburn abuts the South Mountain Reservation, a roughly 2,112-acre Essex County reservation between the First and Second Watchung ridges, per Essex County Parks. A roof assessment identifies the unshaded slopes before any array is sized.

Low-slope downtown membranes on the downtown Millburn village storefronts and the Mall at Short Hills take a ballasted or mechanically-attached and flashed mount, because uplift and required ballast follow ASCE 7, per ASCE 7 and SPRI. The downtown village sits on the Rahway River and has flash-flooded, so positive slope-to-drain and parapet, scupper, and downspout flashing carry storm water off the deck around any array.

Fire and electrical code governs a rooftop array on a Millburn property, because a system meets NEC 690.12 rapid shutdown by dropping to 30 volts or less outside the array boundary and 80 volts or less inside within 30 seconds, per NEC 690.12, and leaves firefighter access pathways and a ridge setback, per IRC R324.6.