A major source of water damage and house floods is due to leaky roofs. Maintaining your roof is an important step towards keeping your house dry; unfortunately, homeowners aren’t always savvy to what is needed to maintain a roof.
Water damage restoration companies across the country deal with water damage due to leaking roofs on a daily basis. Roof leaks are a primary cause of house floods and are caused by a few different reasons. Damage from storms and hurricanes can affect the functionality of your roof. Likewise, wear and tear from age also affects your roof. Typically, anything that can cause damage to a shingle, like wind, can cause your roof to deteriorate in places and thus create areas where water can seep into your house.
Another possible cause of roof deterioration is dry rot. Dry rot occurs to wooden shingles due to age or if the wood ever became wet for a while and never got dried out or treated. When wood stays wet for a while, it will begin to decompose and rot. Dry rot would affect the integrity of a roof and could potentially cause worse problems.
