Way Up on the Roof

When your home needs its roof to be replaced, you can't wait. Allowing water to seep in through cracks only increases your mold exposure and potentially ruins items inside the home. However, as you try to find roofers who can come out and take care of the job quickly, you also need to take time to protect your property. Replacing the roof on a home can be a lengthy job, and invariably there will be a few issues — but you can reduce the chances of these issues becoming untenable with some preparation.

Protecting Landscaping

Replacing a roof doesn't have to be a messy job, and in fact, most roofers are really good about keeping the area around your home clean. But debris and messes aren't the only potential problems that can befall your landscaping during these days. Ladder bases digging into lawns, tools accidentally falling into bushes and breaking a few branches, and even footprints leaving imprints around your garden are just some examples of what you could encounter.

Discuss this with the roofing company before the work begins; find out what they can do to reduce damage to landscaping. For example, covering shrubs near the house and looking for non-grass areas in which to walk are both options, although they (and other landscape-protection tactics) will vary according to how your property is set up.

Protecting Residents

If anyone in your home is a day-sleeper (someone who sleeps during the day because they work at night or work swing shift), they need advance warning, and this includes renters who may be renting rooms in your home. Replacing a roof is very noisy work that also creates a lot of vibrations; it is so noisy that industrial hearing protectors may not block out enough noise to allow the person to sleep. This can lead to legal issues if the person can't concentrate at work and decides to blame you. If your home is multistory, creating a space downstairs for someone to sleep during the work might be OK, but it's something you need to discuss with the person ahead of time.

Protecting Home Interiors

In general, replacing a roof doesn't cause your ceilings to flake and doesn't cause anything in your home to collapse, but the vibrations could do things like make pictures fall down. Just in case, remove all loose pictures and knickknacks and place them in areas where, if they fall over, they won't break.

Luckily, the process of reroofing a building is usually straightforward, and once the company knows what type of roof you want, you can get a timeline for the replacement. The roofers will work with you to ensure the process goes as smoothly as possible. Contact roof replacement services to learn more.