Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Highlands County

On the ground in Highlands County

Permits, power and what the roofs are actually like

Highlands permits through the county at Sebring, with Avon Park and Lake Placid handling their own. This is inland central Florida with a heavy retirement population, which means single-storey housing, modest arrays and owners who want a fixed written number before anyone climbs a ladder. Being inland, salt corrosion drops off the list entirely and the failures we find are rail condition, flashing at the mounts, and arrays that were never torqued to specification. Highlands also sits on the edge of ground we already travel, so scheduling here is better than the map suggests.

Highlands calls are retirement housing on the edge of our existing travel, so scheduling is easier here than the drive time suggests.

Central Florida

What solar looks like in this part of Florida

Central Florida is where the state's solar boom hit suburban tract housing hardest. Whole subdivisions went up between 2015 and 2022 with panels included in the mortgage, sold by dealer networks that no longer exist. The roofs are young, the arrays are young, and the failures we find are almost never the panels: they are inverters, optimizers and attachments that were never torqued properly by a crew that was paid by the install.