Hail Damage To Slate Roof

Vermont slate hail proofroofs are warrantied against any size hail for the first 20 years and another 30 years for a hail of two inch diameter or less.

Hail damage to slate roof.

Slate tiles may be punctured cracked or broken by hail. In general slates can be perforated by objects either from inside or outside a roof. This condition would be considered functional damage only if it were severe. 30 year asphalt shingles 15 year.

We shot ice at four roof samples. If you ve recently installed one of our rubber roofs you won t have to worry about hail damage. The effect of that impact is to either break or puncture the slates and or dent metal flashings. Because slate is a sedimentary stone composed of layers hail damage may appear as a slate with a portion of layers missing.

Original slate was poor quality the installation was a side lap single layer of slate and the size of the hailstones. As you can see many of these hail impacts punches holes right through the slate. Smaller hail typically does little damage to slate. On june 6 2018 hailstones the size of baseballs hit parts of north texas from carrollton to coppell to arlington with significant property damage.

In most cases slate roof tiles are resistant to hail damage and other impact damage. However there are a number of factors that could cause damage such as. Hail is frozen water propelled through the air by the force of wind and gravity and it can damage a slate roof upon impact. As the sizes of the hail increases so does the potential for big damage.