Storm & Wind Damage in Cartersville, GA
Bartow County's hail numbers are ordinary. Its tornado record is the worst in the region, and wind damage documents nothing like hail damage does.
There is no test square for wind, and the region's worst tornado is Bartow's
Bartow logs 2.83 hail days a year with a 2.75-inch maximum — below Cherokee on both counts. What it holds instead is the costliest single tornado in the eight-county record: the Adairsville EF3 of 30 January 2013, 5.06 miles long and 900 yards wide, one death, nine injuries, $60 million in damage, with at least 95 structures damaged and 31 destroyed. In January. Two years earlier, on 27 April 2011, an EF3 ran 15.18 miles at 880 yards through Cassville with 25 injuries and $15 million in damage before crossing into Cherokee and Pickens inside twenty-three minutes, and on 15 March 2008 another EF3 hit Taylorsville. That record changes how a claim here is put together. There is no test square for wind — a chalked ten-by-ten square and a count of impacts is a hail method and it tells you nothing about a lifted tab. What we document instead is directional: which slope faced the wind, where the courses lifted, which tabs are creased along the fold line that stays after they drop back, whether the seal strips have released across a slope rather than in a patch, and where the underlayment tore. Half of that has to be checked by hand, because a roof full of shingles that will never reseal looks completely intact from the ground.
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 Cartersville 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.