Hail Damage Roof Repair

Any damage to your roof can lead to big issues. Hail damage can be caused by stones of ice bigger than softballs and as small as sonic ice. Though sonic ice falling between 9 and 25 mph would be unlikely to damage your shingles, an older roof can easily be compromised by pea sized hail. The bigger the hail, and the older the roof, the more you can be certain that you need to have it inspected. The thickness of your shingle can range. If you have a builder grade 3-tab shingle for your home’s toupee’, you might get 1 -2 hailstorms out of that shingle before you’ll need to have it replaced. The shingle is very thin and doesn’t require much force to concave or damage the material. Although, since the 3-tab shingle is so thin, a windstorm is significantly more likely to be the reason that you will end up with a replacement. Replacing a 3-tab material, since it is easily damaged, will only kick that can of yours down the road for a little while and is not a very good investment for your personal property. We know what you’re thinking: “Why would someone put such cheap material on my house?”

It’s because it’s cheap and more profitable for them to install undesirable cow dung.

If you do have builders grade shingles on your topside and you’re able to replace the shingles, we highly recommend that you upgrade at least to an architectural shingle. There are different grades of quality, much like the quality of paper towels, so keep that in mind when you make your selection. If you can afford to install a better shingle or tin, make sure that you have a real professional install the material properly, so that you can add the shingle manufactured warranty.

We promise you, there is a right and wrong way to install every roofing material. Again, to put it bluntly, if you simply replace manure with new manure, you’re still going to have manure. If you are misfortunate to install cheap shingles, like 3-tab, it’s either because you didn’t know, or you didn’t care. If you’ve read this, you’re installing it because you don’t care. Keep in mind, that as a roofing company, we love when you reinstall a 3-tab roof, because we will be back in just a short while. Architectural shingles are twice as thick as a 3-tab shingle. In the thickest part of the architectural shingle, it can almost reach 3 times thicker than a 3-tab shingle. This thickness makes damaging you roof with a typical hailstorm extremely difficult and protects your home more efficiently than the cheaper shingle. A storm will have to throw down hail that is at least .5” or bigger, at 44 -72mph, and your topside will have to be a minimum of 13 years old before that storm’s damage will be significant enough to worry. Concaving a thicker shingle is much more difficult.

To understand why it is so important to inspect your shingles after a hailstorm you’ll need to know a little about how a shingle is made. Think of the shingle as a sandwich. The bottom side is simply a coat of asphalt underneath a layer of fiberglass, or paper, then there is another layer of asphalt. This simple sandwich is necessary for water displacement, however as you might know, asphalt does not hold up to the sun’s heat or it’s UV rays. The UV rays are stopped by the surface area being sprinkled with granules on the shingle to protect the asphalt. When hail hits your topside hard enough to concave and leave an indentation, it thins the shingle by blasting out the granules. This exposes the asphalt and, in some cases, the middle part of that sandwich, the fiberglass membrane. Once the fiberglass is exposed, you will start losing your water displacement ability and start having water damage issues. The sooner you catch hail damage, the more likely you will prevent further damage to your roof.

Did we mention that hail also damages the soft metals? These indentions are proof that a hail storm has visited your home.

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