Kevin Braden

Good morning. This is Tom Rogers at Empire Roofing doing a roof assessment here today at 170 Penner Lane, Ozark, Missouri, for Mr. Kevin Braden. Just doing a quick overview of the roof so we can see everything that's going on. So let's just take you on a little tour of what we found today. So first and foremost, we found a big hole right here in a ridge shingle where we can get this finger all the way through so we can easily get water down into the attic and eventually into the interior of the home. We also have an exposed nail strip, which we don't love to see. Means that we got our shingles a little out of row whenever we got up to the top. Now, we also had a couple incidents of when they were just cutting shingles. Pretty deep cuts into the shingles themselves. And so these by themselves, just incidental construction damage, are easy waterways to get water in. Now, we do have some missing shingle tabs where wind has taken those away. Part of what we wanted to show you today, though, major focus was the hail damage itself from the recent hail storm. We can see golf ball and a little bit below size hail. We'll take you up to some close ups of some examples that we've marked throughout the roofing system here with the blue chalk. And you can see those dark bruises where the granules have been knocked and basically dislodged loose from the shingle. And so that asphalt backing is now exposed to the UV rays. These become potholes. Now, this is what a healthy shingle looks like. This is, for lack of a better term, a full face of teeth. And so when we move over to a hail strike, you can see that these granules are dislodged and that asphalt backing is already starting to fracture. And we have exposed fiberglass. So these become potholes where water is not able to shed off the roof as the shingle is designed. We know that we are already experiencing granule loss as we can see significant piles of granules inside the gutter system itself. So as a license adjuster, I can help you through this process. So I'm going to step down now and we can talk about all the options that you have. Thanks so much for having me out today, Kevin. I appreciate it.