Roof problems
Storm Damage Roof Repair
After the wind and rain have been through: what to check and what to do first.
Gulf storms hit a roof three ways at once: wind lifts and tears shingles, rain gets driven under anything that lifted, and debris, usually pine limbs in this part of Harris and Montgomery County, punches holes or scrapes the granules off. The morning after, the obvious damage is the shingles on the lawn. The damage that costs money is the shingles that lifted and sat back down, broke their seal, and will leak the next time it rains hard.
The order of work after a storm is simple. Get anything open covered so the house stops taking water. Photograph everything, inside and out, before anybody touches it, because the photographs are what an insurance adjuster will ask for. Then have a contractor walk the roof and write up what he finds, slope by slope.
What you should be wary of is the truck that turns up unasked the day after a storm. Texas has no state licence for roofers, so the person at your door may be anyone. A contractor who is working in your town the rest of the year, and will still be there next spring, is the one you want writing the estimate.
What it looks like
- Shingles or pieces of shingle on the ground
- Lifted or creased shingles when you look up from the yard
- Limbs or debris sitting on the roof
- New drips or stains inside within a day or two of the storm
Whatever the problem turns out to be, the first step is the same: describe it, say where the house is, and one independent roofing contractor working in your town contacts you to look at it. No charge for being connected, and no obligation once he has.
Where
Storm Damage Roof Repair across north Houston
Humble
Subdivisions from the seventies through the nineties under tall loblolly pine, which means twenty-year roofs under a constant rain of needles and the odd limb.
Kingwood
The Livable Forest. Mature trees on every lot, steep-pitched roofs from the eighties, and a lot of roofs replaced in the same two or three years after each big storm.
Porter
Montgomery County, fast-growing, with newer tract roofs next to older country houses and a lot of metal on outbuildings.
New Caney
Acreage, wooded lots and new construction along 59, where wind across open ground and pine limbs are the two things that take roofs apart.
Splendora
Small-town Montgomery County, rural lots, older houses, metal roofs on half the outbuildings and not many roofers based locally.
Crosby
East Harris County, open land and older subdivisions near the lake, with wind off the water and hail from the storms that follow the San Jacinto.
Dayton
Liberty County, country roofing: long driveways, metal on the shop, a shingle roof on the house, and the nearest big-town roofer a long drive away.
The Woodlands
Master-planned with covenants on what the roof can look like, large roofs under dense tree cover, and a replacement market dominated by hail claims.
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