When your home’s roof needs repairs or replacing, you might wonder if you can do the work yourself. New roofs, after all, can be pricey. You might underestimate the work, skill, and time required to fix or replace it. These eight reasons can convince you not to risk your home’s value, appearance, and health on DIY roofing.
1. Safety
Fixing or replacing your roof can be precarious work. If you have no experience handling these types of jobs, you could put yourself at risk of falling off the ladder or roof. You could easily break a limb, suffer a concussion, break your back, or worse when you try your hand at roofing.
You can also injure yourself if you don’t know how to handle tools like a nail gun or saw. Rather than risk injuring yourself or worse, you can hire professional roofers to fix or replace your home’s roof.
Experienced roofers know how to climb up and work on your home safely and while anchored securely. They will also spare you from having to handle any of this risky work yourself and potentially suffering debilitating injuries because of your inexperience and lack of safety equipment.
2. Function
DIY roofing can also compromise the function of your home’s rooftop. Your lack of experience in repairing or replacing roofing materials, like shingles and gutters, can leave your roof vulnerable to damage. You may also get a roof that fails to protect your home from weather elements, such as wind, precipitation, and temperature extremes.
When you want to ensure your roof protects your home and you’d like to avoid damage like holes and cracks, you can benefit from outsourcing its upkeep to professional roofers. Professional roofers have the resources and skills needed to take off and replace warped shingles, install new gutters, and repair holes, cracks, and other damage. They can leave you with a roof that will keep your home comfortable year-round and prevent water, wind, and other weather elements from getting inside of your home.
3. Appearance
DIY roofing can likewise compromise the appearance of your home’s roof. Even if you think you are lining up the shingles properly, they might look askew or warped from the ground. Cutting and lining them up around tough-to-fit areas, like the chimney and eaves, could also leave you with unsightly trouble spots.
Despite your best attempts to do a neat job, you could get a roof that looks worse than before you started your work. Your home could stick out in the neighborhood because its roof does not look uniform and appealing like your neighbors’ roofs.
Professional roofers can provide you with a roof that looks visually appealing and blends in with the roofs of other homes in the neighborhood. They can line up shingles properly, cut materials down to size to fit specific measurements, and make sure your shingles lie flat. This is a job best left to the pros, and you’ll save time, stress, and frustration when you do so.
4. Insurance
When you handle your home’s roof repairs or replacement on your own, you might have trouble getting your homeowners’ insurance company to insure the roof. Insurers often require homeowners to hire professional, licensed roofers to fix or replace roofs. You could void your policy on the roof when you insist on DIY roofing.
Rather than risk losing your homeowners’ insurance coverage, you can hire roofers for any servicing you need for your rooftop. The roofers can provide written proof that you can then turn in to your insurer that you had the repairs and replacement professionally handled. You can keep your insurance intact and minimize the chances of it being canceled because you repaired or replaced the roof yourself.
5. Warranty
Similarly, DIY roofing can compromise any warranty you get on the materials you use for roof repairs or replacement. Many shingle, gutter, and other home improvement manufacturers insist on professional roofers installing or using the roofing materials they make. If you insist on DIY roofing for your home, you could void the warranty on these materials and have to pay for new replacements or repairs out of your pocket.
Rather than void the warranty on your roofing materials, use the services of experienced local roofers. They will ensure the warranty on any materials used in your roof services remains securely in place so you can rely on it if you have to get the materials fixed or replaced because of manufacturer defects or mishandling.
6. Tools
For successful DIY roofing, you may additionally need to invest in various tools. Installing a new roof or fixing your existing one may require you to buy tools like a nail gun, utility knife, ladder, hammer, shingle remover, and others.
When you don’t have these tools in your garage or shed, you must go to your local big box store or hardware retailer and buy them. Even then, they may not hold up to professional roofing tools. You may also have limited knowledge of how to use these tools properly.
Rather than spend time shopping for roofing tools, outsource the work to a local roofing service. The team of roofers that come to work on your home will have the tools needed to make any repairs or replacements.
7. Time
DIY roofing can take more time than you originally believed. You might have envisioned the work only taking a few hours. In reality, the work that your roof needs may take several days or longer to complete, particularly if you are the only one working on it.
A team of experienced roofers, however, can get the job finished faster. They work together to fix any damage to your roof and replace materials like shingles or coating. They may get all of the work finished in a matter of days, if not faster, so you can return to your routine quickly.
8. Costs
Finally, DIY roofing can cost more money than you have to spend in your budget. When you make repeated mistakes with laying new shingles or securing roof nails, you may have to spend more money to replace those materials. Those little mistakes can add up quickly and put a serious dent in your available cash flow.
Rather than use up all of your money and spend way too much on roofing materials, you can entrust the work to knowledgeable and licensed roofers. The roofers can give you a quote for what the services cost so you can budget ahead of time. You can also get more use out of a professional roof job because it holds up better over time and gives you more of a return for the money you spent on it.
Learn More About Our Roofing Services
At Fraser Roofing, LLC, our main goal is to help you take care of the most important part of your home. The roofers on our team in South Carolina and Georgia can repair roof leaks and fix the damage that storms inflict on your roof. They can also install a brand-new roof for you as well as professionally maintain your existing roof. We strive to ensure your roof remains perfectly intact all year long.
We offer you reliable and long-lasting roofing solutions at Fraser Roofing, LLC. Contact us to learn more about our roofing services!
