Metro Atlanta · county seat Atlanta
Roofs in Fulton change every few miles on the long run from Milton to Chattahoochee Hills. The north end is mostly 1980s to 2000s subdivisions with tall, many-gabled roofs, while the south mixes postwar brick ranches, new subdivisions and open country around Serenbe. Nearly every address in between now sits inside one of its cities.
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How we cover it
Art of Solar is a Florida solar company, so there is no van around the corner in Fulton County. Call or text the address, the panel count and what is going on, and you get a straight answer: what the job needs, roughly what it costs, and whether we can take it on or who should.
On the ground in Fulton County
Since South Fulton incorporated in 2017, the county building office has almost no houses left to permit, so a reinstall goes through the city hall that covers the address. Atlanta, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Johns Creek, Milton, East Point and the rest each keep their own permit counter and inspectors. Electricity is just as divided. Georgia Power covers most homes, Sawnee EMC much of the north end, GreyStone Power and Coweta-Fayette EMC parts of the south, and East Point, College Park, Fairburn and Palmetto run their own city systems, so the reconnection paperwork lands in a different office from one street to the next. Spring hail and summer thunderstorms end most roofs here, and tree cover is heavy from the river bluffs in the north to the farms around Palmetto.
Around Serenbe and the farms of Chattahoochee Hills, big lots and close trees make shade the first question on any older array. In the north Fulton subdivisions the usual trouble is a hail claim on a 2000s two-story whose roofing crew will not touch the panels. Toward Fairburn and Union City it is more often a system that came with the house, with no paperwork and no installer left to ask.
Local details
Towns in Fulton County
FAQ
Often, yes, when it is planned. Art of Solar is a Florida solar company, so Georgia work is booked ahead and grouped with other jobs in Metro Atlanta, and it only goes ahead with the Georgia license the work needs. Send the address, the panel count and the roofer's tear-off date for a straight answer.
Georgia treats the wiring side of solar as electrical contracting, so taking an array off, fixing it or putting it back belongs with a contractor licensed by the Division of Electrical Contractors of the State Construction Industry Licensing Board. There is no separate solar license, and cities and counties can add their own permit and business license rules.
Homes in Fulton County are generally served by Georgia Power, with Sawnee EMC up north and city systems in East Point, College Park and Fairburn. When an array goes back on after a roof job the utility usually needs to know, and the building department normally inspects the reinstall before the system is switched back on.
Usually. The installer's own workmanship warranty is gone, but the panels, inverter and optimizers carry manufacturer warranties that normally still apply, and a dead system is often one failed part rather than a worn-out array.
Also in Metro Atlanta
Get a quote
The address, roughly how many panels, who installed them if you know, and what is happening. A photo of the array from the street and one of the inverter get you an accurate number fastest, and texting them is the quickest way to send them.
Any brand, any roofer, any original installer. Written quote before a panel moves.