How To Determine If Your Roof Has Hail Damage

Most roofing companies offer free inspections.

How to determine if your roof has hail damage.

If you see quarter sized hail or larger in your yard call a professional roofer immediately to get on their schedule for an inspection. Roofs with multiple shingle layers may be damaged by smaller hail stones due to a softer support surface directly under the top shingle layer. This is not always the case but many times if a roof has significant hail damage up top the gutters will have some impact damage. When hail hits a roof shingle surface granules get displaced.

When a hail storm does come through a neighborhood folks flood roofing companies with phone calls and emails so do be patient with them. Perhaps that most obvious way on how to tell if roof has hail damage is to note abnormalities in the appearance of the shingle s surface. Asphalt and or mat that appears shiny. This above picture shows a heavily dented gutter but be on lookout for small impacts as well.

Hail hits that are black in color. Dark spots or bruises. You can tell your asphalt shingle roof has hail damage if you see black spots such as in the photos above. Inspecting your shingles depending on the size of the hail and severity of the damage it may or may not be obvious that your roof has hail damage.

One look for dented gutters gutter screens or downspouts. Shingles with a granular texture such as those made from asphalt or composite materials may show granular loss that exposes the underlying felt random dents with no perceptible pattern and soft spots on the surface. Also take note of any cracks divots or bruising you see. Random damage with no discernable pattern.

Wood shingles hail damage. Hail hits that are soft to the touch like the bruise on an apple. Loss of granules which may expose the roof felt. If your roof contains one layer of common asphalt shingles it usually takes a 1 or above diameter hail stoneto cause damage roof hail damage.

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