Real Bad Storms Dammaging Roofs

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.

Real bad storms dammaging roofs. Water damage caused by faulty gutters can include a leaking roof and structural damage. It takes a trained eye to spot hail damage to roof shingles. 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. Gutters are also susceptible to hail damage.

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. It can also cause mold to grow which can ruin your home s foundation and could also make you sick. During a hail storm your roof is being hammered by balls of ice that can get pretty large potentially causing serious problems. While roofs are designed to resist high speed winds winds like those we saw in jax on march 3 can do damage to even the most well built roof.

Hail damage to roof shingles can be very obvious or very difficult to uncover. Your roof and wind damage. Because seamless gutters are frequently feature aluminum or copper construction the signs of hail damage include telltale denting. As you can see on the first image below the surface granules have been knocked off of the shingle very clearly.

Hail can create holes and cracks in your roof leading to problems like trapped water which we already talked about.