A hailstorm can cause extreme destruction to a roof! A hailstone’s impact can bruise or crack roofing shingles, causing water destruction to your home… You cannot always avoid roof destruction from hail, however you can minimize the extent of destruction by detecting problems early, repairing or replacing your destructiond roof as soon as possible, plus installing Class 4, impact-resistant roofing shingles, and plants stripped of their leaves, dents in cars, destructiond AC units, plus other evidence of hail destruction can be found around your yard plus property, but in order to inspect the roof completely, you shall need to get as close to the surface as possible… Roof surface destruction is the first type of destruction you should look for, however there may be small divots, round black areas, bruises, or lost protective granules on an asphalt shingle roof… Not all hail destruction can be seen on the surface of a roofing shingle.
If you look at the backside of roof shingles, you can periodically see splits caused by hailstone impacts, but when performing this type of inspection, it’s best to contact a roofing business who can lift up, examine, plus reseal shingles.
Roofing businesss will also inspect other roofing components, such as flashing, roof vents, skylights, gutters, plus chimney caps. To implement the best action plan, it’s important to identify the type of roof destruction, which may involve a warranty claim or insurance claim. Roofing professionals should be able to distinguish hail destruction from other types of roof destruction, such as blistering plus cracking, scuffing, wind plus debris destruction, plus worn shingles. It can be hard to understand whether hail destruction is only cosmetic or if it affects the roof’s performance. Water passing through your roofing system due to hail destruction is a performance issue that needs to be resolved as soon as possible.