Advice
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Storm damage, insurance claims, and how to tell whether the person at your door is real. Written for homeowners rather than for search engines.
Advice
Storm damage, insurance claims, and how to tell whether the person at your door is real. Written for homeowners rather than for search engines.
Start here. The most useful page here is the guide to checking out a roofer before you sign. If somebody knocked on your door after a storm, read that one first.
Get the roof looked at first. A claim you file before anybody has been up there is a claim on your record whether it pays out or not.
Read it→No. There is no state law that names deductibles, and that is the part most people get wrong. Here is the law that does apply.
Read it→One pays the depreciated value of a worn roof and stops. The other pays the rest once the work is done. Check which one you have before you budget.
Read it→Your policy sets that deadline, not Pennsylvania law, and the clock starts the day of the storm rather than the day you noticed.
Read it→What to do, in order, before you call anybody. Most of the mistakes homeowners make after a storm happen in the first two days.
Read it→No, and a contractor who says otherwise before getting on the roof is guessing. Here is what decides it.
Read it→Free inspection, photographed, with a straight answer on whether the roof needs work.