Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Marlboro County, SC

On the ground in Marlboro County

Permits, power and roofs in Marlboro County

The county building office covers rural addresses, and Bennettsville generally handles permits inside its own limits. Because the city's Public Utilities Department distributes power in town, a reinstall there means sorting out reconnection with the city, not with a regional company. Out in the county, MPD Electric Cooperative, which keeps an office in Bennettsville, serves much of the farmland, and its rules for member-owned solar apply instead. Buildings in the Bennettsville Historic District date from the 1820s to about 1900, with tall roofs and old board decking, while farmhouses outside town tend to have ribbed metal roofs at the end of long gravel drives. Metal and old decking each need different attachments, and neither suits the hardware sold for new shingle roofs. Summer storms can drop hail on cotton and roofs alike, and pines along field edges shade south-facing slopes by late afternoon.

In Bennettsville, around the courthouse and the streets near Lake Wallace, the usual problem is an old roof under a newer array, plus a city utility that needs its paperwork right before the system goes back on. Out near McColl, Clio and Blenheim, it is a metal roof leaking at the mounts, or a system whose seller vanished and left nobody to service the inverter.