Did you ever imagine how your roof would look like after several hail storms falling hard on it over the years?
It's not usual for most people to check on their roofs, specialy for damages after hail storms, strong winds, snow and blizzards. With passing years and storms, it's important for you to ensure that your roof is safe and secure, and that it will remain that way. You surely don't want that possible roof damages extend to interior damages and extra problems.
Sometimes hail damages may not be visible to the naked eye, but after a severe hailstorm you should check if there is any damages on your roof shingles, gutters, vent hoods and skylights.
According to professionals, the damages on your roof may be in many forms, such as:
- Bruising or soft spots on your shingles that may not be visible on it's outer surface.
- Loosening the hard granules that make up the shingles surface
- Denting and damages to the felt matting
- Damages to roof vents and other metal parts of the roof
Has we said before, usually hail damage takes time to happen and depends on many factors. You can even go without it affecting the useful life of your shingles. The size of the hail, the falling height and the velocity of the wind, all of it affects the potential damages, and in severe cases hail can cause real damage of the shingles, penetrate and fracture them.
If those damages are detected earlier, they can be repaired and save you some money. Otherwise it might a full replacement of the roof.
Protect Your Roof From Hail Damage With:
- Quality materials, such as impact-resistant roof shingles
- Rigid roof sheathing to give an extra support on impact
- Regular inspections to the roof. If there are any damages you can dectect them earlier
- Impact-resistant doors and windows and storm shutters
