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How Can a Commercial Roofing Contractor Help You During Hurricane Season?

4 March 2022

Nora Mcdonalid

As a business owner—and a person who resides in a hurricane-prone area—you might find yourself worrying quite a bit about hurricane season. You might worry about your commercial building being seriously damaged or even destroyed during a serious hurricane, for example. A commercial roofing professional can help you get through hurricane season in a number of different ways, such as by providing these basic yet important services.

Performing a Pre-Storm Inspection

There are a couple of reasons to have a pre-storm inspection done on your commercial roof.

First, you might have commercial insurance on your building, and you might be planning on having your insurance policy pay for any storm-related damage that might happen to your business. However, to help ensure that your building is properly valued—and to help ensure that your roof is not excluded from your policy—then you may need to have an inspection done to your roof. Your insurance company might send out their own adjuster to perform this inspection, or they might allow you to provide documentation from your own commercial roofing contractor. If this is the case, then let your commercial roofing contractor know, and they can perform the right inspection and turn in the right documents.

Next, you probably want to get an idea of the condition of your roof before any storms hit. You might also be wondering if there is anything you can do to help protect your roof from storms. A commercial roofing contractor should be able to help you with these things.

Assessing Damage After a Storm

If a storm has recently passed and you have not had an inspection done to your commercial roof, you could be making a mistake. If you assume your roof is completely destroyed because of its appearance, you should still have it inspected, just to be sure it cannot be repaired. If your roof looks like it's still in the same condition it was in before the storm, you should still have it inspected, just to be sure there isn't damage present that you simply cannot see. 

Repairing or Replacing Your Roof

Hopefully, when your commercial roofing professional assesses the damage on your roof after the storm, they will find that there is no damage to the roof. However, as you can probably imagine, this is not always the case. Luckily, whether repairs or a full replacement are needed, your commercial roofing contractor should be able to help you with each step to restoration.

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