Roof Repair & Storm Damage Replacement in Eads

Look, I’ve been roofing here in Eads for over twenty years, and if there’s one thing I tell every homeowner who calls me for an inspection, it’s that we’re sitting right in the bullseye of Colorado’s worst weather. You see, we’re out on the high plains, flat as a pancake, with nothing but open prairie between us and the Front Range. When those spring and early summer storms roll off the mountains, they don’t have any hills or trees to break them up—they just build up speed and slam straight into our roofs. And because we’re at this altitude, the hail gets a longer fall before it hits your shingles, so those stones are coming down like frozen baseballs. I’ve pulled golf-ball and even tennis-ball sized hail out of gutters that have punched clean through three layers of asphalt, and it’s not rare—it’s a regular occurrence from April through July.

But it’s not just the hail, it’s the wind that comes with it. We get these derecho-type systems that blow in from the southwest, and with no tree line or canyon walls to slow them down, they’ll rip across the prairie at sixty, seventy, even eighty miles an hour. That kind of wind gets under the edge of your shingles and just peels them back like the lid on a tin can, and once that happens, the next hailstorm finishes the job. The worst part is, folks here think because we don’t get hurricanes or tornadoes every year, they’re safe—but the truth is, our storm season is short and violent, and the combination of high-altitude hail and unobstructed wind is a one-two punch that wrecks more roofs in Kiowa County than anywhere else I’ve worked. If your roof is over ten years old, I’d bet my truck it’s already got damage you can’t see from the ground.