Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Rockledge, FL

On the ground in Rockledge

Permits, power and roofs in Rockledge

Rockledge runs its own building department, so a reinstall is permitted and inspected by the city, and FPL is the utility. The river edge is the oldest part of town, with wood-frame houses from the late 1800s and early 1900s, plank decking under the shingles and oaks older than the houses. Virginia Park, Marlin Manor, Fairway Estates and Golfview Estates filled in during the space program decades with single-story block homes, low hip roofs and shingle. Levitt Park and Woodsmere came later, built on former gladiola farms and orange groves. Brackish air off the lagoon reaches the riverfront blocks, so rail clamps and bonding hardware deserve a closer look there than on houses west of US 1. Afternoon storms build over the mainland, and a surge from a nearby strike can take out a string inverter.

Along Rockledge Drive, the usual situation is an older house where the deck under the array has to be checked board by board once the panels come off, with oaks overhead adding shade and debris. In Virginia Park and Golfview Estates, small block homes from the 1960s and 1970s carry modest arrays on roofs that are due, and some of those systems came from installers that have since left the Space Coast.