Storm & Hail Damage in Acworth, GA
Acworth took four inches of hail in May 1998, and it sits in the county with the highest hail counts in the region. Both of those need a caveat attached, and we would rather attach it ourselves.
The highest counts in the region, and why that is partly an artifact
Cobb County records 4.30 hail days a year over the thirty-year National Centers for Environmental Information record — the highest of the eight counties in this part of the state — with 2.77 of those days at an inch or more, twenty days at 1.75 inches or more, and a 4.00-inch maximum that fell on this town on 7 May 1998. Now the caveat, because we would rather you heard it from us than found it later. These are reports phoned in by human beings. Cobb has 787,538 people at 2,318 per square mile; Pickens County, half an hour north, has 36,580 at 158. More people means more reports per storm, and the National Weather Service says the long rise in hail counts is likely down to better warning verification and increased public awareness rather than to any change in the weather. So Cobb topping the table is partly meteorology and partly observers, and any roofer who shows you that number without the asterisk is selling with it. What is not an artifact: four inches of hail fell here, on a specific date, and it is in the federal record.
What we do, and what we cannot do, is the same in every town
We inspect the roof at no charge and tell you plainly what we see. We document it with dated photographs and a written scope. We meet your adjuster at your home and walk the roof at the same time they do. We give you and your carrier the identical documents. What we do not do is act as your public adjuster or your representative with your insurance company — that is licensed work in Georgia. And we cannot reduce your deductible in any form, in any amount, for any reason: Georgia law makes that a crime for both of us. Whether to file is your decision, made with your agent, and nobody standing on your roof can tell you what your carrier will approve.
What this covers
Each of these is a service in its own right, offered in Acworth and everywhere else we work.
Storm & Hail Damage
What hail does to a shingle, what wind does differently, and what an adjuster is looking at.
Roof Inspection
Forty-five minutes, dated photographs, a written answer — and no obligation of any kind.
Roof Repair
Most leaks are not a new roof. We will tell you when yours is, and when it is not.
Common questions
How long after a storm should I have the roof looked at?
Soon, and we are deliberately not going to put a number of days on that, because your policy's notice provisions are terms of your contract and telling you what they are would be advising you on it. What we can say is that policies carry prompt-notice provisions, that they are usually shorter than people expect, and that an inspection is free and takes forty-five minutes. Read your policy or ask your agent.Can you tell if there is damage from the ground?
No, and neither can anyone else. Hail bruises the mat under the granule layer and you often have to feel it with a thumb to be sure. A report written from the driveway is a guess. That is the single most useful thing anybody can tell you about hail.What is a test square?
A ten-foot by ten-foot area chalked out on a slope, with every impact inside it circled and counted. Adjusters use it to turn a subjective look into a number, and we do the same thing so that when your adjuster marks one we are looking at the same roof in the same way.
Free inspection
Request an inspection window
Three steps — four if there has been a storm. About ninety seconds.
Get on the roof and know for sure.
Forty-five minutes, dated photographs, a written answer, and no obligation of any kind.