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Hi. I am Bob Schmidt with Home Remodel Workshop. A neighbor lately noticed me out on my roof with my ladder and she asked me if would come over and clean a little bit of debris. She noticed stuff in her gutter there. And while I was over there, unfortunately, I found a problem on her roof that she didn’t even know existed. I’ll let you know what it is so you could watch out for it on your house too. Let’s get to work.
What I noticed is that pretty consistently, spread out throughout most of her roof were these mysterious nicks out of the edge of her shingle tabs. After I met a roofer out here on this project, he took a look at this and immediately said that it was caused by hail. Now my question to him was why is it only on the edge of the shingle. He said, that’s the must susceptible spot of damage on your fiberglass roof shingles. He said that even though that he center of the tabs took some hits, if the edge of the tab was cold or hot, soft or brittle, it’s going to cause that type of damage.
She contacted her insurance man and her insurance pretty much came out and said as long as there are ten nicks in a 10 x 10 ft sq, that is considered hail damage. The roof is a total loss. She turned that into her insurance and sure enough, right now, we have shingles sittings on the outside of this roof ready for a whole new roof to come on this.
So before you assume that you need to get up there and do some repair work, you really need to get up on your roof, inspect your roof, make sure you don’t see anything like this. She has no recall at all of hearing a hailstorm or anything like that. I talked to the roofer about that and the roofer said that this damage—and the insurance man also, and they said that this damage could have been caused two years ago by a storm that could have lasted as short as 15 minutes. What ends up happening is that overtime, after these initial nicks are done, water, wind and snow, change of temperatures take effect and it leaves you with this little nicky looking things in the edge of the shingle tabs. If you get up on your roof and you see something like this, you may want to contact your insurance company and find out if you too should receive a new roof.
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