Hail Damage To Slate Roof

In most cases slate roof tiles are resistant to hail damage and other impact damage.

Hail damage to slate roof.

As the sizes of the hail increases so does the potential for big damage. In general slates can be perforated by objects either from inside or outside a roof. However there are a number of factors that could cause damage such as. In this episode of the build show we made an ice cannon to simulate hail hitting a roof.

Because slate is a sedimentary stone composed of layers hail damage may appear as a slate with a portion of layers missing. Any of these conditions could be deemed functional damage if the damage is serious enough. 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. As you can see many of these hail impacts punches holes right through the slate.

30 year asphalt shingles 15 year. If you ve recently installed one of our rubber roofs you won t have to worry about hail damage. Hail is frozen water propelled through the air by the force of wind and gravity and it can damage a slate roof upon impact. We shot ice at four roof samples.

Original slate was poor quality the installation was a side lap single layer of slate and the size of the hailstones. Smaller hail typically does little damage to slate. This condition would be considered functional damage only if it were severe. The effect of that impact is to either break or puncture the slates and or dent metal flashings.