Roofing in South Carolina is hail in the Upstate, heat in the Midlands, and lift on the coast. A bruise of granules after a spring storm around Greenville or Spartanburg is not the same damage as tabs peeled on a sea island. Shingles across the capital region bake until they curl. Lowcountry roofs take wind-driven rain that travels uphill under the edge. Metal shows up on beach houses and on barns, and it still needs fasteners that have not rusted out. Say which force hit your slope.
From the ground, look for a shiny patch, a boot cracked at a plumbing vent, and step flashing pulled from a sidewall. Pine straw in a valley holds water in the Upstate and the Midlands. On the coast, look for rust at the drip edge and nails that storms have worked loose. A flat or low porch roof on an older house is a separate leak from the main field. If you can see daylight from the attic, say so. If you cannot safely enter the attic, say that too.
The scope should name repair or tear-off, underlayment, flashing, and debris. Humidity keeps a small leak wet long enough to soften the deck, especially under a bath fan that dumps into the attic. Ask what happens when the wood is bad. Ventilation is part of a replacement in a state this hot. A roof that cannot exhaust will cook the next covering. After a hurricane, a tarp holds the line. It is not the finished roof, and it should not erase the photos.
Leave the tree in place if wires are down or the ceiling sags, and stay off a wet pitch. Inland counties get the rain and the falling pines even when the eye stays at sea. Coastal counties get the wind that tries to fold the edge. Those are different scopes. A crew that talks only in squares without walking the chimney is not done looking.
Say the town, say leak or replacement, and say hail, heat, or hurricane. Roofing in South Carolina fails for a local reason. Call the number on this page.