Hail Damage to Overland Park roof
Let’s say a hail storm comes through Overland Park and hits your house, how do you determine if you have hail damage or not? Do you walk outside and look up at your roof to see if anything looks out of place? How do you know what to look for on your roof? What does hail damage look like? Above is a picture of what hail damage did to an Overland Park, KS home this past spring. As you can see it looks like someone hit a bunch of golfs at your roof. What will happen to your roof over the next couple of years is that the granuals of your shingles will start to come off which will allow your shingle to breakdown and deteriorate over time. Leaving your roof exposed. What do you do? Here are a couple of steps to take when you think that you have hail damage on your home.
1) Call your insurance company. They will probably suggest having a roofing company come out to inspect your roof before filing an insurance claim. If it is a no brainer hail storm then they will have you skip the inspection process and go directly into filing a claim.
2) File an insurance claim. The insurance company will issue a claim # and issue you a property adjustor to come out and take a look at your property. Here it pays to have a local roofing contractor that is experienced in insurance claims be at your property at the same time so that they can have 2 pairs of eyes on your claim.
3) Hire a LOCAL roofing company. I shouldn’t have to elaborate on this but I have seen this too many times. People will hire an out of town company and once they are done and collected you will never see them again. So what do you do if you roof leaks or was installed wrong? That is when you are stuck. Just hire LOCAL.
4) Let you local roofing contractor look at your insurance scope to verify that your insurance company caught all of the damaged areas. What do I mean by this? Adjusters do a good job but they see multiple claims a day and sometimes they might not get everything that they would have at the beginning of the day. By having you contractor look at the scope of work they can go back to the insurance company and work with them on any items missed. Let’s be honest, do you have the time or experience to deal with the insurance companies? A reptutable local company will take care of you like American Roofing & Renovations Inc.
Once you have everything worked out with the insurance company then it is time to begin repairing your home and getting it back to pre-storm condition.
These are just some steps in determining if your Overland Park home has hail damage.
American Roofing & Renovations Inc.
913-706-8710
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