Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Atlanta, GA

On the ground in Atlanta

Permits, power and roofs in Atlanta

Permits come from the city's Office of Buildings, and a house in a local historic district such as Inman Park, Grant Park or Cabbagetown can also need Urban Design Commission approval before anything visible on the roof changes. The housing spans more than a century: 1890s Queen Annes with steep hips and turrets, 1920s bungalows on plank decking, and postwar ranches now on their third roof. Georgia Power holds the interconnection for almost every address. Squirrels thrive in this canopy and chew the wiring under panels that were never screened. Each spring a coat of yellow pine pollen washes down the glass and packs along the lower rails. The March 2008 tornado that tore through downtown and Cabbagetown showed that wind here can be as hard on roofs as the trees are.

In Kirkwood, Ormewood Park and East Atlanta Village, a familiar story is a bungalow re-roof where the panels went up in the mid-2010s with no critter guard, and the roofer finds chewed wire and a nest. In Buckhead, around Chastain Park and Collier Hills, bigger houses carry arrays across several roof faces, and the problem is a leak at an old mount. Southwest Atlanta, toward Cascade Heights, has more systems that were bought along with the house.