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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Your roof may be fine for now. Hail can knock the sand coating off the shingles and damage the structure, shortening their life, but not causing leaks. Your roof may not leak, but if it was designed to last 20 years, it may only have the strength of a 10 or 15 year roof after the hail.
It's common around here to get storm damage estimates right after the storm, which are always high because roofers have more work than they can get done. (One told me he is 5 weeks out on estimates and months out on the actual work) Take the money the insurance company gives you based on these estimates and wait a year or two - wait until roofers are begging for work. Then get it done for less than half. This assumes that you have inspected the roof and there aren't any actual holes and it will last two years.
For example, last fall I got an estimate of $250 a square to do my roof. A couple of weeks ago my friend got two estimates for her hail damaged roof of $1000 and $950 a square. This fall or next fall she'll probably get it done for $250 or so.
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Good point. Will have to chew on that. Still a lot of construction going on in my area and these events are common so not sure how much it will slow down but something to think about for sure.