Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Oakland Park, FL

On the ground in Oakland Park

Permits, power and roofs in Oakland Park

The town began as Floranada in 1925, a name blended from Florida and Canada, went bankrupt after the 1926 hurricane and reincorporated as Oakland Park in 1929. Most of today's housing went up after World War II: single-story concrete block with low hip roofs, carports later enclosed and additions under flatter roofs. The Florida East Coast tracks run beside Dixie Highway through the old downtown. Annexed areas such as North Andrews Gardens and Twin Lakes South carry permit records from their county years that may not match what is on the roof now. Oakland Park's building department permits and inspects the work, FPL is the utility, and anything bolted to the roof on a reinstall must carry Florida or Miami-Dade product approval. Leaks at old mounts here often show up first as a stain on a ceiling near an exterior wall.

In Lake Emerald, Royal Palm Acres and the streets of Central Oakland Park, postwar houses carry small arrays, and the roofs under them often sit on original plank decking. In North Andrews Gardens, a roof job can turn up earlier work that was never permitted, and that gets sorted out before the array goes back. Around Sailboat Lake Pointe and the city's other lakefront pockets, oaks and royal palms add shade and debris.