Sarasota and Manatee's Most Knowledgeable State Licensed Solar Contractor #CVC56710
Our primary business is helping homeowners, commercial businesses and institutions make the switch to environmentally friendly, clean and free solar energy.
We have provided, installed and serviced high quality solar heating systems throughout Sarasota and Manatee counties for over 30 years. Roark Solar is a division of Environmental Equipment, a Florida state-certified contractor.
The unique benefits of choosing Roark Solar as your solar heating contractor include:
Proven products. Our Aquatherm and Solar Industries (SI) solar heating systems have delivered trouble-free operation for over three decades. You can count on proven and reliable solar heating systems for years to come.
Extended warranty. We offer an unconditional Environmental Equipment and Roark Solar's five year warranty on all solar parts, workmanship, and labor for every component of your system not covered by a manufacturer’s warranty. This includes items like electronic controls, actuators and motorized valves, plumbing and pool blankets.
Knowledgeable experts. Jim Roark, Environmental Equipment & Roark Solar’s owner, has three decades of solar industry experience and a university degree in physics. He and his team of solar professionals will ensure that your system is sized and installed correctly.
In a relationship that dates back to 1978, Roark Solar enjoys a position as the world’s oldest continuous dealer for Solar Industries solar pool heaters. Since 1976, Solar Industries has led the solar pool heating industry with countless product design and manufacturing innovations. And Roark Solar has been installing the industry’s most field-tested solar pool heating systems in Sarasota and Manatee counties for 30 years. During this time, our business has expanded. Today, we also sell, service and install heat pump and gas pool heaters, as well as swimming pool automation and automatic pool sanitation solutions.
You can certainly choose among any number of companies to heat your hot water, swimming pool, or to provide you with innovative pool automation and sanitation solutions. But Roark Solar has the experience to handle all your solar heating projects of any scope or complexity. Perhaps the best evidence of our track record satisfying customers are the longstanding vendor relationships we have with most of Sarasota and Manatee counties’ major swimming pool contractors.
Just three examples of our fanatical attention to quality:
Stainless steel. We use only marine-grade stainless steel mounting hardware when installing our solar heating systems. Stainless steel is more expensive, but it lasts.
Experience required. Roark Solar installation crew leaders must have at least one full year of supervised field installation and service experience before taking charge of a crew. Incidentally, this might help to explain why Roark Solar installation crews are featured in Solar Industries installation training films.
Turn-key customer care. Most important: We service what we sell. When you enter into a customer relationship with Roark Solar, you will not need to worry about dealing with manufacturers’ toll-free numbers and overseas long distance phone operators for warranty problems. We’ll take care of it.
Today’s solar heating systems employ a variety of modern technologies. Roark Solar's people have decades of hands-on experience, so we know which technologies and systems are practical and, more important, affordable and trouble-free. We carefully study a product’s durability and reliability before it gets anywhere near your home swimming pool.