How Can You Really Tell If It’s Time to Finally Replace Your Roof?

Although realizing that your roof is damaged is not very hard to do, it’s a much more difficult job to check and see if your roof actually needs to be replaced. In many cases, you’ll find signs that the roof has reached the end of its projected lifespan, for instance when recent repairs no longer hold properly for more than a year and your roof looks to be in very bad shape because it’s broken down, damaged or unsightly.

However, none of these factors are definitive when it comes to deciding whether or not your roof has to be replaced. Instead, you have to think about the following concerns:

1.     How old is your roof? Has it already passed its projected lifespan, or is it still relatively new in comparison?

2.     Have roofers told you in the past that the workmanship on your roof was bad? That in and of itself may have shaved 5-10 years off the total life expectancy of your roof from the very start.

3.     Are subsequent repairs only holding for 1-2 months before the roof is leaking or has been damaged again? That’s also a pretty big sign that it needs to be replaced. However, in such cases you should always ask for a second opinion from Parker roofing companies, since roof restoration or a partial replacement might also be an option in certain cases.