Queensland’s unpredictable weather can cause great concern for you and your home, with the recent heavy rain, severe storms and flooding this can have an affect on our daily lives.
In these unpredictable weather events, it is important to make sure your insurance is up to date and to carefully read the fine print of your policy to understand what you are covered for under your insurance. This year alone there have been 197,000 insurance claims worth an estimated $3.35 billion dollars.
Storm season is fast approaching, and it is important to understand how hailstorms can affect your home. Certain factors can influence the damage to your metal roof for example – different sizes of hail can impact your metal roof in different ways. View how the different size of hail can affect your roof here.
Metal roofs are highly resilient to damage, however if the weather event is severe enough and creates medium to large hailstones this can impact the metal creating dents or even puncturing of the roof. Punctures and large dents to your metal roof can cause severe issues such a leaks and damage to the interior of your home.
Smaller hail usually only causes minor dents, hail wash and scratches, though this damage is usually only minor and doesn’t require structural improvements to the roof, if left untreated it can cause issues such as rust which can create further issues down the track.
It is important to contact your insurance company immediately after a hailstorm and submit a claim before more damage can occur. The insurance company will normally send out an assessor or they will ask you to contact your local roofing company for a roof inspection to identify the impact of hail damage.
Sunstate Roofing Services specialises in hail damage roof repairs and metal roof replacements. Your home is one of your greatest assets and having damage to your home can become very stressful, that is why we are here to help and have created an 8 step hail damage insurance process to help you submit your claim to your insurer.
We are here to help make the process as smooth and simple as possible in these stressful times. Find out more about our hail damage roof repairs or contact us today.
