Roof Repair is Sometimes the Best Answer

If your roof starts to cave, it is a scary and dangerous situation. You need to be proactive and prevent deterioration from getting to the point where a roof recovering or replacement is the only alternative. Doing roof repair before the problems snowball into a catastrophic situation is much cheaper and much simpler than it sounds. Periodic inspections of the roof can yield much information about the state of your roof. It is also very important to be aware of the materials that are used in the construction of your roof. This will help understand the points of failure and consequently you would look for the rights signs of rot.

If you happen to have a roof made of slate then you are pretty well covered. Slate is long lasting, fire retardant and does not require expensive repairs like roofs made from other material. The most commonly detected problems with a slate roof usually can be traced back to either faulty installation or faulty repairs. Most contractors will fill up cracks in a slate tile with a generic black goop made of tar. This may temporarily cover up a leak but it will eventually resurface with a vengeance. The best and most long lasting way to fix a slate roof is to replace tiles that develop cracks. It is foolproof and easy.

For concrete tile roofs, the big concern is matching the color, pattern, texture of the adjoining roof tiles. In this case again there is really no need to tear down the complete roof. Just replace the erring tiles with tiles from a less conspicuous area of the roof and put new tiles on that area. The idea being that it is almost impossible to match the surrounding tiles even if they come from the same manufacturer. Over the years the sun, rain, cold take a toll on the roof tiles and causes a certain degree of discolouration. So a new tile with no such exposure to the elements will never match 100%.

Similarly for other types of roofs the procedure to fix the damage is pretty simple. If the roof repair is done professionally by people who have been working in this field for a very long time, it saves you a lot of money to fix in time before the damage causes a roof recovering or those still, re-roofing. A roof over expensive equipment in a hospital, for instance, can benefit heavily from repairs as they cannot afford to close down business. Save yourself time and money by making sure you do regular inspections and roof repair.