Whenever your roof suffers from sharp pressures and heavy weights, holes may be the result – holes that are hard to find. These holes can be the source of moisture, insects, and even animals working their way into your roof. Difficult to locate, these holes can lead to bad leaks inside your home with the coming bad weather. Once you’ve got a leak, it can work its way laterally through the roof to make itself known in some other parts of your home.

Since most antennas, exhaust fans, solar panels and HVAC systems tend to have less than adequate reinforcements, roof punctures often result. And people who walk on roofs like plumbers and technicians, bringing their equipment and tools with them, can cause them. Of course, older roofs are more susceptible to punctures.

Animals, including squirrels, raccoons, mice, rats, and birds are good at getting into roofs, causing their own punctures with their scratches and pecks. They build nests and take to breeding more little creatures to live in and damage your roof.

And what we all fear is severe weather, like intense hailstorms where hail pounds into the roof, leaving multiple holes that need repair.

As winter makes its way into the Houston area, you may be in for unexpected complications on your roof. Make sure to contact Royal Crown Roofing for your free roof inspection before winter sets in, and prevent any expanding problems resulting from current punctures. And be sure to contact them if and when any future damage occurs.