Strange things happen after a hurricane.
First, many times it appears that property owners with major hurricane damaged roofs are mostly unaware that their roofs need to be covered to prevent water from leaking through to the interior.
Some do appear to catch on eventually, but even those folks seem to only think it’s important to cover the roof in patches.
Just look around after a hurricane. Soon patches of tarps will start to appear on roofs. But rarely do roofs get covered 100%.
This is wrong for two reasons:
First – and perhaps foremost – most insurance companies are willing to pay to cover the entire roof! Almost all policyholders are required to do whatever is in their power to mitigate the damages. That means they are required to “stop the bleeding”, so to speak.
Why would the contractor want to be a part of that?
Second, over 80% of insurance companies – including State Farm, Farmers, Allstate, USAA, Nationwide, MetLife, Liberty Mutual, Safeco, The Hartford, American Family, ASI, American Modern, QBE and many more – use the industry standard pricing software Xactimate. And Xactimate prices temporary tarp repair by the square foot. And if this takes place outside of business hours (Monday-Friday, 9 am-5 pm), the price per square foot is higher.
Why cover patches of a roof totaling 100-200 square feet (only getting paid for 100-200 square feet), when instead you could be getting paid for 3500 square feet, etc? You should be covering the entire roof.
And Xactimate prices temporary tarp repair by the square foot.
Additional items can also be added for steep charges, emergency service call and carpentry, etc.
Making it even more of a no-brainer is the fact that by getting the property owner to sign a simple form when performing the service, it can be submitted to the insurance company immediately and most of the time a check can be issued directly to the contractor within days.
That’s why we say that strange things seem to happen after a hurricane. Maybe you’ll think so too, the next time you see patches of tarps on hurricane damaged roofs after a storm.
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