Slate Roof Wind Damage

Look for missing and damaged shingles damaged shingles might be curled cracked or torn on your roof or around your property.

Slate roof wind damage.

How to check for roof wind damage perform an outdoor inspection. Wind damage to slate roofs. I d expect to find extensive broken damaged slates throughout the field of the roof possibly worse on some roof slopes than others depending on the direction of hail movement and winds. Falling limbs building materials detached from other structures and anything else that becomes airborne in high winds will undoubtedly cause damage if it strikes a slate tile roof.

The combination of unusually large hail and unusually fragile slates especially on a side lap slate roof creates the highest expectation of slate roof damage. If this type of damage is localized i e it covers less than 30 percent of the entire roof roofing repairs might be able to address the problem. Hail is frozen water propelled through the air by the force of wind and gravity and it can damage a slate roof upon impact. Similarly to wind damage it can be minor damage scattered about the roof.

Call us toll free or email us instead. Even though slate roofs are the most durable roofs available high winds hail and flying debris can still cause damage. Slate tile roofing is more susceptible to damage due to flying debris caused by hurricanes. I d expect sheltered areas of slates that didn t get the hail by direct impact to not show that damage.