Roof insurance claims: damage, evidence, process

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Every page below says what the work covers, how it runs and what decides the price, before anyone asks you for a number.

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Roof damage report

A document your file can actually use

A roof damage report: dated, photographed, every finding located on a plan of the roof, and a repair scope written so another contractor could price the same work.

  • A date on every page
  • A plan of the roof
  • Findings numbered and located
  • Photographs that can be checked

What moves the price Roof size and complexity · Number of findings · Access

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Hail damage roof inspection

Find out whether the hail actually reached your roof

A hail damage roof inspection that marks test squares, separates bruising from ordinary wear and photographs every impact to scale, so the record can be read by someone who was not there.

  • Test squares marked on the roof
  • Impacts photographed to scale
  • Bruising separated from wear
  • The soft metal checked first

What moves the price Roof size and number of slopes · Access and pitch · Roof covering

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Storm damage roof inspection

Get the storm damage recorded while it is still fresh

A dated walk of the roof after wind, hail or debris, photographed slope by slope and written up as a document you can put in your own claim file.

  • A dated walk of the roof
  • Damage recorded slope by slope
  • Photographs a reader can place
  • The soft metal and the fittings

What moves the price Roof size and shape · Access and pitch · How much damage there is

Roofs patched with mismatched metal, seen from above

Wind damage roof inspection

Most wind damage leaves nothing missing to see

A wind damage roof inspection that checks seals by hand, reads the direction the weather came from and records lifted laps, creased shingles and displaced metal before they are tidied away.

  • Seals checked by hand
  • Creases and fractures
  • Edges, laps and terminations
  • Displaced and lifted metal

What moves the price Roof size and number of slopes · Access and pitch · Roof covering

Not sure which one you need?

Describe the building and what it is doing. If the answer is a different piece of work from the one you came for, we will say so, and if it is nothing at all we will say that too.

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