Identifying hail damage on your belongings such as patio furniture or your car is relatively straightforward.
Hail damage to roof pictures.
It takes a trained eye to spot hail damage to roof shingles.
The rest of the pictures make it much harder to notice that the shingle has sustained hail damage.
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Studies show that some roof tiles can be damaged by hail as small as 1 1 4 diameter.
Damaged slope roof from tiles after storm hail damage to a corrugated plastic roof.
Jun 20 2014 these are photos of actual hail damage.
The amount and type of damage hail causes on roofs depends on a variety of factors.
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This article tells readers how to identify roof shingle hail damage and how to distinguish a hail damaged roof from blister rash damage foot traffic damage wind and other conditions such as shingle rash blistering cracking and granule loss associated with normal shingle aging.
Hail storms can cause a wide range of damage to your roof and your property in general.
A roof that has been damaged by a storm the plastic is showing the sky through it man on ladder on a roof.
A roof that has been poorly maintained has recently sustained other types of damage or is simply past its prime has a higher risk of being harmed by hail than its newer and better maintained counterparts.
If you have hail damage you will need to file an insurance claim.
However determining whether your roof has sustained damage from a hailstorm may be a little more difficult.
And larger hailstone pack a bigger punch.
If your hail event was significant in terms of widespread damage you will have roofing contractors who specialize in storms knocking on your door within days of the event.
A roofer taking pictures of the layers of shingles on a home man on ladder on a roof.
Roofs with multiple shingle layers may be damaged by smaller hail stones due to a softer support surface directly under the top shingle layer.
Along with their resistance to roof wind damage they may be susceptible to hail damage.
As you can see on the first image below the surface granules have been knocked off of the shingle very clearly.
Hail damage to asphalt roofing.
The round dings in metal are obvious signs of hail damage.