Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Floyd County, GA

On the ground in Floyd County

Permits, power and roofs in Floyd County

Rome and Floyd County share one building inspection department on Broad Street downtown, so a reinstall in Cave Spring or Silver Creek goes to the same permit desk as one inside the city. Georgia Power carries most of the county, but North Georgia EMC and Carroll EMC both reach into rural areas. North Georgia EMC buys its power from the Tennessee Valley Authority, and its rules for bringing a home system back online are not Georgia Power's. Outside town the housing mixes early twentieth century mill houses, brick ranches from the 1960s and 70s, manufactured homes and farmhouses with exposed-fastener metal roofs. Metal changes the job: mounts either clamp to standing seams or bolt through the roofing with sealing washers that harden and crack with age. Ice storms that glaze the ridges bring limbs down on roofs, and squirrels in the hardwoods chew any wire left loose under an array.

In Lindale the old mill houses sit close together under big hardwoods, and shade that was light when the panels went up can be heavy now. Out toward Coosa and Armuchee some arrays stand on ground racks in pastures, where mowers and rodents get at the wiring. Cave Spring's older homes raise a different question: whether the roof under the array was ever replaced at all.