There is a sound you never want to hear, at least not in association with your home’s Roofing in Chesapeake, and that sound is the “drip, drip, drip” of the rain that’s coming through your roof and through your ceiling to land in a pot or bucket inside of your house. By the time you hear this sound, untold damage has likely been done to your roof, to the wooden structures that support your roof, and to the ceilings within your home. It’s one thing to repair a roof that is aging, it’s something else entirely to have to replace sub-structures and to redo your home’s ceilings. This is one area of home maintenance where it definitely pays to be pro-active and to take care of problems while they still fall in the maintenance category and before they become a bonafide disaster.
Generally speaking, it’s getting close to the time to replace your Roofing in Chesapeake when you’re growing close to the end of the warranty period for the roof that is on your home. Some shingle roofs have a twenty year life expectancy, some twenty-five and some even thirty years. If you don’t know when the roof on your home was installed, you can get an approximate idea of the age of the shingles by their condition. If they’re blowing off the roof during wind storms and leaving a gritty debris from their tar covered sandy outer surface as a residue in your gutters, chances are great that their life span is about up.
The odds are great that you’ll notice some new options on the market since you last put a roof on your home. Reitzel Home Improvement has asphalt shingles are available in a plethora of colors, weights and life expectancy ratings, and many homeowners today are turning to metal roofing as an alternative to shingles. Metal roofs have the advantage in that they have a longer lifespan than asphalt (from forty to seventy years!) and they frequently can be installed over the top of existing shingle roofs, which effectively adds an additional layer of insulation, thereby helping to reduce the home’s heating and cooling costs. Cedar shakes and composite roofs are attractive alternative options, as well.
