Hail Damage Roofing around Park City
Finding hail bruising before it turns into leaks.
Hail Damage Roofing for Park City homes and buildings
We check soft metals first, because dents in vents and flashing date the storm, then read the mat.
Snow load up here is not a theoretical number. Roofs carry weight for months, ice builds at the eaves where the attic leaks heat, and anything that sheds onto a walkway has to be planned rather than discovered in February.
Hail damage shows on metal before it shows on shingles. That is where we start. On hail-damaged roofs, we work with your insurance to get the roof covered.
What matters on hail damage roofing
Reading hail honestly
Hail shows on soft metals first. Vents, flashing and gutter aprons take visible dents before the shingle mat shows bruising, so those are what we check first to date the storm and gauge severity. Bruising on the shingle itself is felt as much as seen.
Wind damage runs in lines
Wind gets under a course and lifts along a run, so the one missing shingle visible from the street is rarely the whole of it. The creased tabs either side of it have broken their seal even though they are still in place, and those fail in the next storm.
How the system goes together
Six nails in the right line
Every shingle wrapper prints a nailing pattern and a nail line, and that pattern is what the wind rating was earned with. High nailing misses the reinforced strip and leaves the nail head sitting in the exposed area of the shingle below. Four nails where the wrapper asks for six cuts the uplift resistance on the one part of the roof the wind works hardest.
Overdriven is as bad as missing
A gun set too hot cuts through the mat and the shingle is hanging on a hole.
Cheapest detail to get right
And the most common thing done wrong.
Open valley or closed
A closed valley weaves or cuts the shingles across the intersection. An open valley runs metal down the center with the shingles cut back off it. Around here, with the volume of water and ice a valley concentrates, open metal over ice-and-water shield is the detail we reach for on most homes. It moves debris out instead of catching it, and it gives ice a smooth surface instead of a shingle edge to grab.
The W profile
A center rib keeps water from one plane washing up under the shingles on the other.
What we check
- Granule loss and bruising across the field
- Lifted, creased or missing tabs
- Cracked ridge and hip caps
- Soft decking under the worst of it
What the job looks like
Get on the roof
We walk it rather than look from the drive, check the decking underfoot, the flashings and the ventilation, and photograph what we find before any number is discussed.
Show you what we saw
The photographs come back to you with a plain read of what the roof needs and, just as often, what it does not need yet.
Crew on site
The crews we hire work under Hancock’s direction, staged so landscaping and the drive are protected, working the detail in the order it is supposed to go on rather than the order that is quickest.
Leave it clean
Site cleared at the end of every day, a magnet run over the whole yard for nails at the finish, and the roof walked with you before we go.
A slide onto a walkway
A loaded slope above a front door or a side path is a safety matter before it is a roofing one. Snow releases in one piece, and a hundred pounds landing on a step is how people get hurt. It also tears at the gutter on the way past and bends the hangers out of the fascia.
Fixing it means changing the geometry
Retention hardware, or a small roof over the entry to break the fall, or moving the path. Something has to change, because the slope will keep doing what slopes do.
Ice dams start at the eave
The mechanism is simple and it ruins ceilings. Heat escaping the living space warms the deck, snow above melts, the water runs down to the cold overhang past the heated wall line and freezes there. The ridge of ice that builds up backs meltwater under the shingles.
The fix is not a heat cable
Cables buy a season. Sealing the attic bypasses, getting insulation depth right at the top plate, balancing intake and exhaust, and running ice-and-water shield well past the interior wall line is what actually stops it.
Where roofs go wrong
The shortcut we see most
A claim filed off a ground-level look. Damage gets missed, the scope comes back short, and the homeowner finds out the hard way in the next storm.
What good looks like instead
The whole roof walked and photographed, soft metals checked to date the storm, and the adjuster met on the roof so everyone is reading the same evidence.
Signs worth a look
- Dents in vents, flashing or the gutter apron
- Shingles creased but still in place
- Granule loss concentrated on one slope
- Debris or branch strike marks on the field
What to expect
What to do first
Get the water stopped and get photographs. If something is actively coming in, call and we will make it safe before anything else happens. Documentation of the immediate aftermath is worth having.
How the claim process runs
We document the damage thoroughly, you file, and we work with your insurance from there. On hail-damaged roofs, we work with your insurance to get the roof covered, and the assessment is made from the same evidence we gathered.
Temporary versus permanent
Tarping and emergency sealing buy time and nothing more. Temporary is temporary and we say so. The permanent repair follows once the weather gives us a window.
Getting to Park City
We have worked enough of Summit County to know which builders put up which subdivisions and where they cut the same corner twice. That is worth more on a roof than any brochure.
That proximity is most of what matters when weather moves through. Park City sits in Summit County, and we are on roofs across it regularly enough to know how the housing there was built.
Questions we get asked
Not the question you had? Call the shop and ask a person. We would rather talk it through than have you guess from a website.
(801) 382-8898Do you actually work in Park City?
We do. Park City falls well inside the radius we run, and being there often is what lets us tell you how the housing around it was built.
How fast can you get to Park City after a storm?
As fast as we can get there. Stopping the water comes first and the permanent repair follows once the weather opens a window.
What happens if you find bad decking?
We show you. The decking is only visible during a tear-off, so that is when soft sheathing gets found and replaced. We photograph it rather than just add it to a list.
Do you work through the winter?
Yes, with judgment. Shingles need to seal, and in genuine cold that takes longer or needs hand sealing. Emergency work happens whenever it has to. Full replacements get scheduled around the weather rather than forced into it.
What makes a Utah roof different?
Snow load, ice at the eaves, canyon wind and high-altitude sun, all on the same roof. A crew that learned roofing somewhere mild has to learn it again up here.
Where Park City sits on our map
Park City work is scheduled like the rest of the valley.
Hail Damage Roofing in Park City
Call (801) 382-8898.