Get Your Roof Repair Job Done Before Winter Hits

The winter of 2010 was a severe one regardless of where you lived and if most people learned anything from that winter experience it was to be better prepared to deal with Mother Nature's worse. Towards that goal you need to do more than just stock pile on canned food and water and prepare to hunker down. You also need to ensure your home can weather the storm without any foreseeable problems.

If you reside in an area with a high amount of precipitation in the winter months you may want to have your roof inspected now before the snow flies, to ensure your structure is in good enough condition to withstand a heavy snow load. The last thing you want to do is go into winter with an undetected roof repair problem and find out the hard way that your roof is unstable the way the Minneapolis Dome found out in 2010. You may remember the big story of the time occurred when a blizzard storm dumped seventeen inches of snow on the 64,000 seat football stadium and caused the dome roof to cave in.

Now imagine if that were your home. Not only would you have to contend with the roof collapsing you would also have to contend with snow being dumped in your home and the ensuing water damage. This would probably be your worst nightmare come to life and it would also be an insurance adjuster's nightmare to try to navigate.

So instead of being unpleasantly surprised the way the Minneapolis dorm owners were, make a plan of action and inspect your roof ahead of the winter storm season that you know is coming.

A roofing contractor can inspect your roof to look for the red flags that indicate a needed roof repair in your future including missing nails or shingles and other signs of obvious damage that may require a roof repair job to correct. These small indicators of problems can indicate your home is vulnerable to water damage that will be exasperated by your home carrying a heavy load of snow or even just weathering through a solid rain or hail storm.

And while these small red flags can indicate a potential problem they don't have to be expensive repair jobs to fix. Sealing in your home against vulnerable leaks and holes may require little more than applying some new tar paper, a few more shingles and replacing missing nails. A through repair job can do a lot to extend the lifetime of your home and ensure your roof can withstand the cold months of winter ahead.

Finally don't forget to take the proper precautions to make your roof repair job a good one. You can do that by only hiring a contractor that will give you a warranty on the repair job in writing so you can have something to go to the bank on if the job doesn't hold up against the worse that Mother Nature has to offer this winter.