DIRTY LITTLE SECRET #3: They Can See Hail Damage On Your Roof From The Street
I received a phone call at home one day from a roofing phone solicitor who told me that her “guy” happened to be driving on my road and noticed that I have hail damage on my roof. This is a funny scenario because I happen to live in the country on a dead-end road where no one drives unless they live here, they’re lost, or they’re making a delivery. Plus, my house sits 300 feet from the road! But, people who live in the city hear this kind of thing frequently.
“I happened to be driving by and noticed you have hail damage on your roof,” a door-to-door roofer might tell you. Doesn’t that sound a lot like the asphalt guys who tell you they noticed you have cracks in your driveway? Oftentimes, you will get a roofer who will tell you this in order to get you to allow him to do a roof inspection.
These roofers must have bionic eyes because in all but extreme cases you can’t see hail damage on a roof from the ground, much less from the street. Imagine being able to spot a dime-sized, dark spot on a gray shingle while driving past a house at 30 mph from 100 feet away! After the July 28th, 2016 hail storm, when we got baseball-sized hail, you could definitely see damage from the street, but that is an abnormal event and in most cases, hail damage isn’t observable unless you’re on the roof.