- After a severe storm blows through your area,
you're gonna have a lot of questions
about whether or not your home suffered any storm damage
and mainly any damage to your roof.
Well, by the end of this video,
you're gonna be able to tell
if you've had storm damage to your roof
and what to do about it.
So let's get into it.
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How to identify roof damage.
As a homeowner, there are several things you can do
to identify storm damage to your home.
First off you wanna do a visual inspection of your roof.
Just do a walk around
and see if you see any shingles that are missing
or maybe lifted or just out of sorts.
And then another thing you can check for
is granules that are coming from the shingles
that are getting in the gutters
and running out the downspouts.
So you might wanna check your splash blocks
and see if you're seeing a lot of granules there.
Another thing to check for is dings or dents
in the soft metals,
like your downspouts or flashings.
Bird feeders even can get damaged by hail.
So you wanna check soft metals and look for dings.
Now, if you have a metal roof,
you wanna look to see if any of the metal,
especially around the edges,
has gotten wind under it
and started to get the metal loose and flapping,
or maybe even some panels missing.
That's how you can tell wind damage to a metal roof.
And to look for hail damage,
you wanna get at an angle and look at it
and just look for dings in the metal.
It's much more difficult for hail damage to show up
on a metal roof
because of how rigid the metal is
compared to the softness of shingles.
You also wanna check your soft metals as well,
gutters, downspouts to see if you see any dings in those.
When it comes to actually inspecting
the roof surface itself,
we don't recommend this for homeowners,
unless they have a lot of experience on climbing ladders.
Call the professionals and make sure that no one gets hurt
in your household.
What to do if you have damage on your roof.
Now, if a major storm has come through
and done a lot of damage to a lot of homes,
most roofing companies are gonna be busy
and they will have time to come out
and do a temporary dry in,
but you may have to wait a month
or maybe three months to get your roof actually replaced.
With most insurance companies, depending on your policy,
you're gonna have one to two years
to get your roof replaced with your insurance claim.
And if you do have storm damage
and roofers come knocking on your door,
don't be tempted to go with that first storm chaser
that comes in and says
they can fix your roof immediately.
Hire a local roofing company that knows the local codes
and is gonna be there
in case there's a problem down the road
or in the near future.
Storm chasers are here and gone.
A local roofing contractor is gonna be here
in the long run to take care of any problems
that might show up.
To make sure that your insurance company
pays all they're supposed to pay
to replace the damaged part of your roof,
you're gonna want to hire
a good local roofing contractor.
Click on the link below for the video
on how to hire a good roofing contractor.
If you do have storm damage to your roof,
we hope you get it taken care of just as soon as possible.
I'm Bill Ragan with Bill Ragan Roofing Company,
and remember,
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