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If you are in the market to buy or sell a home, one of the primary components of the home that will come under scrutiny is the roof. From an insurance perspective, the insurer needs to know that the roof is in good shape or must be restored and/or repaired prior to issuing coverage for the home. The roof inspection report is also for the protection of both buyer and seller in a real estate transaction. An existing homeowner that looks after their prized investment, their home, will also have a roof inspection performed as much as once per year.

It is a hard fact that the roof of one’s home does not last forever. While some roofing materials can last nearly a lifetime, such as clay or concrete tiles, every type of roof from metal, to cedar shake wood, to asphalt shingles and more will require restoration from time to time, barring any catastrophic event such as damage from lightning, tornado, fire or hurricane, to name a few. If you care about your home as an investment, roof restoration is one of those necessary overhead (no pun intended) expenses.

Asphalt shingles are a low-cost workable roofing material that is still commonly in use today while many other roofing materials have taken hold, such as clay or concrete tile and metal. They are easy to install and with the wide availability of this material, costs are competitive which benefits consumers.

Common logic would tell you that a flat roof for a home or building is not a good idea, not with exposure to the elements of rain, water, snow, ice and such. However, such roofs have a slight enough incline to discourage water from ponding on the roof.

Home construction materials today have come a long way. The days of a metal roof being simply a corrugated piece of scalloped metal are bygone for the most part, at least for home builders. Today’s metals applied to homes, especially for a home’s roof, provide energy efficiency, environmentally-friendly

“Wait a minute………………..now you are telling me that my new roof needs repair, how can that be?” Yes, as a matter of fact, a fairly new or newly installed roof might need new roofing repairs. The reasons for this can be many; perhaps a tree has fallen on the home, or the party that installed the new roof overlooked the fact that some of the framing underneath it was too worn and not strong enough to support the new materials.

They say………’when it rains, it pours’. If you live in a dry part of the country and that is indeed what happens, be thankful for at least getting rain. But any rain whose water finds its way through your roof inside your home is no fun. Guess what? It is time to re-roof.

For those of you who own homes, the responsibility of maintaining your property can be daunting at times, especially when it seems like its one thing after another with maintenance. One of the most expensive maintenance factors is your roof. If you are in the process of preparing your home for sale or you are trying to get a lender’s attention for a new or refinanced loan, your roof will come under scrutiny as will the rest of the property. If you have recently had roof maintenance performed or you are scheduled to have it, be sure to get a roof certification from the roofing company that does your work.

Rain upon a home has its natural weathering effect. To keep water from accumulating at the home’s base or foundation and to keep water out of the home’s lowest points to the ground or below it, the use of horizontal roof gutters around the perimeter of the roof’s edges or portions thereof help drive the accumulating rain water down to the ground and away from the foundation.