Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Conway, SC

On the ground in Conway

Permits, power and roofs in Conway

Conway issues its own building permits through the city, and Horry County Code Enforcement takes over once an address falls outside city limits. Santee Cooper serves much of the city, while Horry Electric Cooperative, whose headquarters is in town, serves many of the surrounding roads; the utility on the bill decides whose reconnection steps apply. The older blocks around downtown hold early 1900s frame houses with steep roofs and board decking, often under a heavy live oak canopy that drops leaves, twigs and Spanish moss onto anything below. When the Waccamaw comes up, anything mounted low, such as inverters, disconnects and batteries, is what gets ruined, so where that equipment sits matters as much as the roof. Newer houses along Highway 501 are mostly architectural shingle on truss framing.

Near the Riverwalk and in the older blocks around downtown, the common pairing is a tired roof under heavy oak shade and an array that never produced what the sales sheet suggested. In subdivisions out along Highway 501 toward the university, it is newer shingle roofs with storm damage claims. On low streets near the river, flood-damaged equipment is the lasting problem.