Real Bad Storms Dammaging Roofs

It takes a trained eye to spot hail damage to roof shingles.

Real bad storms dammaging roofs.

As you can see on the first image below the surface granules have been knocked off of the shingle very clearly. Water damage caused by faulty gutters can include a leaking roof and structural damage. The mother of all roofing issues rain roof damage is the most common and of the most noticeable of all the types of storm damage that happens to your roof. Your roof and wind damage.

Always do an inspection after a bad hail storm especially if you received other damage during it. Hail damage to roof shingles can be very obvious or very difficult to uncover. During a hail storm your roof is being hammered by balls of ice that can get pretty large potentially causing serious problems. Hail can create holes and cracks in your roof leading to problems like trapped water which we already talked about.

Hail is a powerful force of nature that can even damage roofs made with concrete tiles if the stones are large enough and wind speeds are high. Gutters are also susceptible to hail damage. Your roof s lifelong enemy is water and when leaks caused by other types of storms or just the old age of your roof start to expose the internal layers of your roof to moisture problems start to happen. Because seamless gutters are frequently feature aluminum or copper construction the signs of hail damage include telltale denting.

Mold rot leaks and structural damage are all signs of rain damage and indicators that your roof may need to be replaced.