I’m going to guess it’s about an hours travel one way from Portland to your house (give or take) and that it will be a crew of 4 traveling 2 hours a day. If they charge $50 an hour per guy and it takes a week to uninstall and then later reinstall I get $2000 by the end of the week.

Companies charge for travel. They’ve got to, you can lose a quarter of your day just traveling to a job site and they are paying their guys on that ride.

If I was you I’d call and ask them to justify that travel cost then. The other costs unfortunately make sense to me when you look at the market for solar installs. You shouldn’t try to price the solar vs the price of the roof but instead other solar installers as the only true similarity they share is they’re on your roof. The materials and skills required otherwise are not comparable and do not actively contribute to the others price. When looked at this way you’re realistically getting an installation for half the going price. It definitely isn’t cheap by any means but is still a deal compared to installing a whole new system once your roof is finished.