Roof Repair & Storm Damage Replacement in Cheraw

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and if there’s one thing I tell every homeowner in Cheraw, it’s that we’re sitting right in the bullseye for hail. It’s not just the size of the stones, though we do get those golf-ball and even baseball-sized monsters. It’s the fact that our location, right on the eastern edge of the Rockies, creates these violent, sudden supercell storms that seem to explode out of nowhere, especially from late April through June. The warm, moist air from the plains slams into the cooler mountain air, and that collision just stacks the atmosphere until it can’t hold it anymore. When that happens, the hail gets tossed around in the updrafts for so long that it grows into these dense, icy rocks that hit your roof with the force of a hammer, not a pebble. I’ve seen brand-new architectural shingles look like they’ve been shot with a pellet gun after a single twenty-minute storm.

And the wind that comes with those same storms is just as brutal, if not worse. We get these straight-line winds that can gust to seventy or eighty miles an hour, and they don’t blow over the roof, they blow *under* the shingles. That’s the real killer. Once that wind gets a grip on a tab, it lifts it up and flaps it back and forth, which breaks the sealant and strips away the granules that protect the asphalt from the sun. Then, the next hailstorm comes along and finishes the job, leaving you with bald spots and cracks you can’t see from the ground. The dry, high-altitude air up here also makes the shingles more brittle over time, so they don’t have the flexibility to absorb the impact. Honestly, it’s a one-two punch every single summer, and if you don’t have a roof with a high impact rating, you’re just gambling with your biggest investment.