Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Rome, GA

On the ground in Rome

Permits, power and roofs in Rome

Permits come from the joint Rome/Floyd County building inspection department, and the same office enforces the city's historic preservation rules. That matters in Between the Rivers and East Rome, where visible changes to a house in a local historic district can need approval before work starts, and panels on a street-facing roof are exactly that kind of change. The roofs themselves span Queen Anne and Second Empire houses from the late 1800s, Craftsman bungalows from the 1910s and 20s, and postwar ranches on the outer streets. Old houses mean old decking, sometimes boards with gaps wide enough that a mount has to land on a rafter or not at all. Georgia Power serves most addresses, so ask the utility whether it wants notice before the system is switched back on. Mature oaks shade many lots and feed squirrels that chew exposed wire.

On the hills below the Clock Tower and along the bungalow blocks of East Rome, the story is often a steep roof that needs replacing, an array on top of it, and a roofer who will not work around either. Newer homes in Garden Lakes and out toward Mount Berry run into something else: a system from a company that stopped answering, and an inverter fault nobody can clear.