How To Protect Your Home During the Roof Mitigation Process

8/1/2021 (Permalink)

Severe damage to the roof due to high winds.

Roof Mitigation Process

After storm damage takes its toll on your home in Halls Crossroads, TN, high winds, hail or torrential rains are likely to have left the structure of your roof compromised. One of the first things you should think about is how to prevent further roof damage. Storm restoration experts can help you safeguard your home as one of the first steps of the mitigation process.

What Are You Protecting It From?

Storms cause harm in several ways. Your home may suffer wind damage when trees fall onto the roof or objects are hurled through windows. Heavy rains can cause leaks, and if those leaks aren't remediated in a timely manner, mold can start to grow. After a storm has damaged your home, you need to protect it from additional issues:

• More rainwater
• Debris
• Animals
• Other people
  
  

Your roof may not be the first place you think of when you imagine a breach of your home, but unwanted objects, substances and guests can sneak in wherever there is a hole.

How Do You Protect It?

Roof damage is not always a quick fix. Because the mitigation process could take a while, it is important to protect the interior of your home by covering any holes in the roof, windows, siding or skylights. Broken skylights and windows can often be covered with industrial transparent plastic. This still allows a little natural light to get through but protects your home until the glass can be replaced. If your roof is leaking, the restoration professionals will most likely use tarps to cover the holes and keep more water from getting in. Larger holes may have to be boarded up until they can be repaired.

If a storm leaves your home with roof damage, mitigation professionals may have their hands full with all the work in the area, which means your home may not get repaired as quickly as you would like. In the meantime, it's important to protect it by blocking off the damaged areas to keep more damage from occurring.