Leaks compromise more than just your roof’s performance and durability. They threaten the interior of your home–and its occupants–too.
It’s bad enough that leakage has happened, but procrastinating its repair is even worse. Don’t take it lightly and address it with a sense of urgency. Otherwise, it will affect these key aspects of your home:
Structural Integrity
Whether the root of the leak is faulty gutters or cracked flashings, water intrusion would accelerate the deterioration of everything that makes up your home.
Most building materials, such as wood and metal, don’t mix with moisture. Although water can’t break them down overnight, chronic roof leakage will spell trouble for your home’s ceilings and walls among others. Worse, a fateful leak can start a fire, putting your loved ones and valuables in jeopardy.
Comfort
Investing in high-performance replacement windows can boost your home’s energy efficiency, but a roof leak can put your money to waste. Water can render your attic insulation clumped and ineffective. Considering that heat rises and moves upward to escape your home, having saturated insulation offsets the ability of your energy-efficient windows to reduce thermal transfer.
Air Quality
A damp attic can serve as a breeding ground for mold. To highly sensitive individuals, exposure to mold can trigger serious allergic reactions and severe respiratory problems. Because mold travels through air, it can quickly spread, and invade different parts of your home via ductwork.
Safety
Puddles on the floor created by roof leakage are always a slipping hazard. If you have an active family, one can easily sustain an injury by walking on the slippery floor. Furthermore, a structurally unsound home is a dangerous one. A small leak can cause your entire roof to sag, or crack the foundation over time. Like vinyl siding, your metal or asphalt shingle roofing system needs regular maintenance to keep your home a safe place.
Turn to Hinkle Roofing to stay ahead of leaks, and to prevent the horrors that come with them. Big or small, we can fix any issue, and restore your roof’s strength and beauty in no time. Call us at (205) 352-1940 now to schedule an inspection and get a free estimate. We proudly serve Tuscaloosa, AL, and other nearby parts of Alabama.
