Storm and wind damage repair in Howard County
Shingles in the yard, a lifted ridge, a stain that appeared overnight. Call us and we will get out to look, document what we find, and tarp it if it needs tarping.
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Do these in order. The first two matter more than who you eventually hire.
Move what you can
Get furniture and anything valuable out from under it. Put a bucket down. Water finds the low spot in a ceiling, so a stain in one room can drip somewhere else entirely.
Photograph everything
Inside and out, before anyone touches it. Time-stamped phone photos are the best evidence you will ever have for an insurance claim, and they cost nothing.
Call us
We answer seven days a week, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. If it needs a tarp to get through the next storm, we will tarp it.
Then call your insurer
Once you know roughly what happened. An adjuster will want the photos and a contractor’s written assessment.
What Maryland storms actually do to a roof
Most of what we see between June and September falls into four categories.
Wind and lifted shingles
The most common by a wide margin. A gust gets under the edge of a shingle and breaks the seal strip. It may lie back down and look fine from the ground while the seal is gone, which means the next storm takes it off completely. Ridge caps and rake edges go first.
Hail
Hail bruises the mat under the granules. Fresh hits look like dark circles where the granules have been knocked off, and they often show up in the gutters as a pile of grit before they show up on the roof. Hail damage is frequently missed because it does not leak straight away.
Tree and limb strikes
Anything from a scoured patch of shingles to punctured decking. Even a limb that has come and gone can leave a hole you cannot see from the driveway.
Water backing up
Heavy rain overwhelming an undersized gutter, or debris blocking a downspout. The water goes over the front edge into the fascia and soffit, and the damage shows up months later as rot rather than as a leak.
What we give you for the insurance claim
Photographs of what we find
On the roof, not from the ground. Close-ups of the actual damage, plus wide shots that show where on the roof it is.
A written assessment
What is damaged, what caused it as far as we can tell, and what it takes to put right. Plain language, not a sales document.
An itemised estimate
Materials and labour broken out, so an adjuster can see exactly what they are paying for.
We will meet your adjuster at the house if that helps. What we will not do is tell you a roof is destroyed when it is not, or inflate a claim. That practice is common in this industry after a storm, and it is one of the reasons we do not do it.
About the crews that show up after a storm
After any significant storm in this area, out-of-state crews work the neighborhoods hard — knocking doors, offering free inspections, pushing insurance claims and asking for a signature on the spot. Some of them are fine. Plenty are not, and the public reviews for a few of the larger operations working this corridor are full of inflated invoices and supplements billed for work that was never done.
You do not have to take our word for it. Before you sign anything with anyone, check three things:
- Are they licensed by the Maryland Home Improvement Commission? Ask for the number and look it up. Ours is #34676.
- Were they here before the storm? Search the business name and see how far back it goes.
- Will they leave without a signature? Anyone who will not is telling you something important.
We have been in Howard County since 1988. We will still be here next season.
Get storm damage looked at
Free, no obligation, and we will tell you honestly whether it is a repair, a replacement, or nothing at all.
Water coming in now? Call rather than filling in the form — (301) 957-1944.
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