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

On the ground in Pickens County

Permits, power and roofs in Pickens County

Pickens County's planning and development office handles permits outside the towns, and Jasper, Nelson and Talking Rock each have their own city government, so check the address first. Amicalola EMC has its headquarters in Jasper and serves much of the county, with Georgia Power in other areas, so the name on the bill settles whose reconnection rules apply. Housing along GA 515 and around Jasper, which bills itself as the First Mountain City, is mostly newer brick and siding with architectural shingles, while the ridges hold cabins and mountain houses with steep metal roofs and decks hanging off the downhill side. Inside Big Canoe, which straddles the Dawson line, roughly four in ten homeowners are part-time or vacation owners, so an array often comes off a house nobody is living in that week. Ice and wet snow at elevation, lightning and oaks over the roof are the hazards.

Inside Big Canoe and Bent Tree, the first question is what the community's architectural approval process will allow, and owners often want the array put back exactly as it was. Around Tate and Marble Hill, home of the Georgia Marble quarries, and out toward Talking Rock, older houses bring the usual trouble: a roof past its life under panels from an installer that closed.