Is this hail damage?

[Irving]

Is this hail damage?

This is a pop quiz by the way. I should have titled the thread, "What caused this damage?"

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jKYesiRVp-g/VNE1FSMSYpI/AAAAAAAAPMk/zRjaiUCAzQA/w1552-h873-no/20150203_133748.jpg

[Great-Kazoo]

If there are other similar holes within a 10" x 10" area, yes. IF it's the only 1 or 2, No. I know a few ins co adjusters ,if you'd like i can have them look at this picture.

[68Charger]

LOL... given the missing material, it likely came from the inside... I'm going to assume it was a rhetorical question... (since AFAIK, Sturving IS an adjuster)

no report of shots fired in the area?

can we get something for scale to calculate the caliber for bonus points?

[fly boy]

NO, no it is not!!!

during the massive storm that rolled through Cheyenne a few years ago, I had $8,400 in damage to my truck, and got a new roof and gutters. The storm was shattering windshields, moon roofs etc.

That is a HOLE! Meteorite, falling tree branch, bullet, but not hail.

[ray1970]

Please tell me that isn't your roof, Stewie.

[HoneyBadger]

Please tell me that isn't your roof, Stewie.
[LOL]

I'd say .45 hole

[Irving]

We're getting there. Keep the ideas coming!

[Big E3]

That's definitely the kind of "hail damage" you get when cleaning loaded guns in the house.

[J]

Looks big.... maybe someone was trying to unload their .50 cal muzzle loader the 'old fashioned way'?

[fly boy]

30-06 FMJ?

[Irving]

Drum roll please...

[Ah Pook]

Alien probe.

[Irving]

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Q4ERelRjfnk/VNE3L8Ku1vI/AAAAAAAAPOQ/TOk9RPIPEvQ/w1552-h873-no/20150203_133618.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WdUkgw8j6Pg/VNEw1AXDztI/AAAAAAAAPOE/KADB3D4JQ6E/w1552-h873-no/20150203_133343.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ypgATfEq-lI/VNE3Fs-v0GI/AAAAAAAAPOI/zUGRSQp9SsU/w1552-h873-no/20150203_133353.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-80RvwlsdKCc/VNE01i9NinI/AAAAAAAAPOc/xAkOy8rGiMo/w1552-h873-no/20150203_133743.jpg

[Irving]

This is apparently how to celebrate New Years/Independence Day around Evans and Broadway.

Also, I'm going to keep these pictures forever so I can explain to roofing contractors why that giant hole they're pointing at is NOT hail damage.

It was a 9mm by the way.

[bryjcom]

Have you called channel 9 yet and raised the alarm that there are right wing militias shooting your roof?

[68Charger]

Wow, nice post... I used to work at the Yellow Cab Co. in Phoenix, and the shop foreman had a hobby that involved collecting bullets and shell casings from the lot and the cabs.. (in South Phoenix, (Central & Mohave for those that know the area).. he had them lined up one side of his desk, and 1/3 of the way across the front.

Lots of people in that area liked to celebrate by firing rounds in the air...

[Big E3]

Looks like they need a new roof anyhow, it appears the aggregate between the tabs in pic 3 is gone. And who has three tab anymore, that is so 1980's.

[68Charger]

Looks like they need a new roof anyhow, it appears the aggregate between the tabs in pic 3 is gone. And who has three tab anymore, that is so 1980's.

1980's would be T-lock... makes repairs nearly impossible.

my house used to have a T-lock roof.. little wind damage at one end and it was done... replace it all (not made at all since 2003)

[Irving]

Wow, nice post...

Thanks, I like to collect all my interesting photos. I know other members have good stuff as well. Maybe we should start a photo thread like that.


Looks like they need a new roof anyhow, it appears the aggregate between the tabs in pic 3 is gone. And who has three tab anymore, that is so 1980's.

There is at least one T-lock roof on every street in my neighborhood. I'd say more than 50% of the roofs I'm on are still 3-tab stuff. The dimensional laminate has been around for about 25 years now and I occasionally run into original laminate roofs that are just plain worn out from age and sun exposure. I've learned to judge a neighborhood by the roofs that are on the homes. Kind of like see what kind of cars are parked outside.

[Irving]

1980's would be T-lock... makes repairs nearly impossible.

my house used to have a T-lock roof.. little wind damage at one end and it was done... replace it all (not made at all since 2003)

So many T-locks have been replaced over the years under the premise of "oh they don't make that shingle anymore and we can't match it" that there are warehouses full of T-lock shingles. You can repair T-lock by just removing a shingle to use as a template and cutting new shingles out of 90lb roll roofing. Maybe not ideal, but certainly serviceable.

[Big E3]

I used to see T-Locks in the 60's to 70's. When I first got involved in home building was 1971 and we used 3 tab here in Colorado. My first laminate roofed house was in 1992. The old guy next to my dads house used new T-Locks on his house in 2005. I remember saying to my dad I didn't know that they still made T-Locks. I never had a house with two new roofs, I move in re-roof give it to the wife in the divorce and buy another.

[sniper7]

So...why would you shoot your own roof? Seems like a bad way to put in a insurance claim

[sniper7]

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[68Charger]

So many T-locks have been replaced over the years under the premise of "oh they don't make that shingle anymore and we can't match it" that there are warehouses full of T-lock shingles. You can repair T-lock by just removing a shingle to use as a template and cutting new shingles out of 90lb roll roofing. Maybe not ideal, but certainly serviceable.

Tried it, lasted until the next windstorm... then filed a claim and got a new roof. Turns out the sheathing underneath was compromised along that edge... wasn't leaking inside the house, just in the eave area.

[wctriumph]

It looks like someone drilled a hole with a standard bit, maybe to run a antenna cable into the attic??