Wood shingles are a beautiful and classic type of shingle to install on your home. But if your shingles become damaged, they will no longer be able to stop moisture from seeping into your home, especially after a strong rain storm. Before repairing wood shingles, you might need to remove moss from your roof.
Why Moss is Growing On Your Roof
Moss will grow on some wooden shingles when they are not exposed to enough sunlight. This can occur if you live in an area with a lot of trees. Moss can detract from the appearance of your shingles and can also make it more difficult to see damage on your roof.
How to Remove Moss
You will be able to remove moss by power washing the moss off your roof. However, it will grow back if you do not trim your trees to allow some sunlight on your roof.
Why Your Shingles Eventually Wear Out
Roof shingles last the longest when installed on steep roofs. The flatter the roof, the more likely that snow and rain will accumulate on the roof and will slowly cause it to rot. However, any roof with wood shingles can become damaged after a severe storm and will also become damaged over time as the wood slowly rots due to exposure to sunlight and rain.
Fortunately, if only a few shingles have become damaged, you can hire a professional roofer to get on your roof and replace them very easily. This is important to do because a few missing shingles are all it takes for your roof to start to rot. Moisture can cause fungi to eat away at the underlying structure including the rafters.
How to Diagnose Your Roof
If you're not sure whether your roof is damaged, you might be tempted to climb up on your roof. But this isn't recommended because you might cause more damage to your roof. Also, climbing on the roof is dangerous. However, you may discover dampness or stains in your attic indicating that the roof has a leak.
Call a Shingle Roof Repair Service
The shingle roofing repair service will repair your roof when it's not raining and the weather is calm. This will ensure that your roof doesn't become more damaged during the replacement of the damaged shingles. By repairing the shingles, your wooden roof will last much longer before it eventually has to be replaced.
Contact a company today to learn more about shingle roofing repairs.
When you have something you like inside a jar, you probably put a lid on it — right? In a way, you can think of your house in the same manner. You like and value the items inside, along with the inside of the house itself. So, it only makes sense that you would protect the interior of your home with a lid. That lid is your roof.
Keep that perspective in mind as you read this blog. Learning more about roofing will feel more interesting if you remember what a roof does: it protects the inside of the home and the people who live in it.