Hail Damage To Slate Roof

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Hail damage to slate roof.

This condition would be considered functional damage only if it were severe. In general slates can be perforated by objects either from inside or outside a roof. The effect of that impact is to either break or puncture the slates and or dent metal flashings. Vermont slate hail proofroofs are warrantied against any size hail for the first 20 years and another 30 years for a hail of two inch diameter or less.

In this episode of the build show we made an ice cannon to simulate hail hitting a roof. Slate tiles may be punctured cracked or broken by hail. Any of these conditions could be deemed functional damage if the damage is serious enough. As the sizes of the hail increases so does the potential for big damage.

If you ve recently installed one of our rubber roofs you won t have to worry about hail damage. In most cases slate roof tiles are resistant to hail damage and other impact damage. Smaller hail typically does little damage to slate. We shot ice at four roof samples.

Hail is frozen water propelled through the air by the force of wind and gravity and it can damage a slate roof upon impact. On june 6 2018 hailstones the size of baseballs hit parts of north texas from carrollton to coppell to arlington with significant property damage. Original slate was poor quality the installation was a side lap single layer of slate and the size of the hailstones. As you can see many of these hail impacts punches holes right through the slate.