Roof Inspection: The Important Home Check You Should Never Postpone: Part 1 The Importance of Preventive Inspection and Maintenance

Everything in this world ages, including your home and its components. Every day, it is subjected to all kinds of risks and damage. Extreme heat and cold, changing temperatures and weather, and other external factors can all compromise the condition of your roof. However, these are things that you cannot control. As a homeowner, the best that you can do for your home is pay attention to it by committing to have it regularly inspected and properly maintained. Among the aspects that you should give notice to is the roof. Since it is your home’s biggest shield against the elements, it is also most susceptible to damage. In this three-part post, we discuss the importance of preventive roof inspection and maintenance in keeping your roof in great condition.

Roof Inspection: What Makes It so Important

After ensuring proper installation, a roof won’t really need anything more than regular inspection and maintenance. Some may well ask, “What benefit is there to spending extra on regular inspection and maintenance – when after all, you can just have the roof repaired if it gets damaged, right?” The thing is, these seemingly simple  tasks can make a huge difference in extending the life of your roof and in preventing costly repairs. Studies actually show that a roof that is not regularly checked and maintained may last for only half of its average lifespan. Furthermore, roof inspection and maintenance is a far cheaper solution than having to repair your roof constantly or, worse, needing to get it replaced before it serves its expected service life.

Benefits of Preventive Roof Inspection and Maintenance

Investing in quality, professional preventive roof inspection and maintenance can be beneficial in many ways, including:

• Ensuring optimal roof protection. Proactive roof inspection and maintenance lets you spot any issue and damage early on, making repair jobs easier and cheaper.

• Maintaining the roof’s aesthetics. A roof in good condition is also a roof that looks good, and properly maintaining the roof allows this.

• Prevention of damage and other risks. When issues and damage are remedied immediately, they’re no longer in danger of escalating into more serious problems.

• Cost savings. By ensuring your roof’s good condition, you won’t have to worry about costly repairs and premature replacement.

• Keeping roof warranties intact and valid. Most warranties require the roof to be properly maintained for them to remain valid.

When to Inspect a Roof

Ideally, routine roof inspections should be done at least twice a year. Doing so will ensure that the roof remains in as good a condition as possible, and that any manufacturer warranties subsequently remain valid.

You want to time the inspections so that they are performed before and after the most severe weather or seasons. If your area was recently hit by a storm or a similar disaster, you’d likewise want to have your roof – your entire home, for that matter – inspected for damage.

Now that you know the importance of regular roof inspection and maintenance, we will dedicate the next post to the things that should be checked during inspection. Stay tuned!