What Should I Expect After A Hail Storm?

What Should I Expect After A Hail  Storm?

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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:20

Brought to you by:  //American Siding and Roofing, llc. Here is a list of everything else you should know, how to deal with things, and what to expect. The severity of these things will depend on the size of the storm and your location. Things you’ll see at home: Over the next several months you will most likely have dozens of door hangers, mailers, calls, and knocks at the door with people soliciting to repair your home. Some will be legitimate professional companies who are marketing the storm, while others and the majority will be broke storm chasers from other cities, janitors, bartenders, mechanics, painters, and people from all other professions who are getting into construction as a way to cash in on the storm. The best thing to do to avoid this is to put a USRCT sign in your front yard and put a do not silicate sign on your door. If they still knock, just politely tell them that you are being taking care of and shut the door. Do not let them talk. because they will not stop. Beware of gimmick: We will pay your deductable, free upgrades, $1,000 off. All of this is defrauding your insurance company and against the law. You don’t want to get mixed up in a situation like that. You will see billboards going up everywhere advertising storm damage, cars with ladders on top and want ads in every newspaper. Understand why people pitch locals: After about two months into the storm, everyone will start to pitch “use a local company” “I’m local” What happens is that the insurance company convince people of this, which in turn promotes the use of that type of marketing. Usually this happens later in the storm because storm chasers start to lease the names of local companies to use the name to compete against other storm chasers. By saying “were local” The truth is that the majority of local companies are either not local at start or new businesses popping up that are trying to benefit from the storm. After all how many local roofing, siding, or window companies did you have before the storm? Look for companies driving nicer vehicles: Usually you can tell the credit status of a company by what they drive, as companies who pay their bills usually drive nicer vehicles then companies that don’t. Look for vehicles that have their company name on them in permanent lettering: This assures you that they did not just run out and print a magnetic sign to instantly become a contractor. Do not try to profit from your insurance company: This is something that happens a lot during a Catastrophe storm. People think that they just won the lottery. You didn’t, you are being paid to repair damage on your property. If you use the money for something else or defraud your insurance company two things can happen. You can be guilty of a crime and and/or will not be covered in the event of a future storm. This is important because next time it could be a lot worse, and if your insurance company already paid for work to be done and it wasn’t, they won’t pay again. Beware of local companies who get more work than they can handle: During a storm most local companies who are used to producing 3-5 jobs a week start selling 50-100 per week. This in turn makes it so they do not have the staff in place to manage the jobs. They start hiring new inexperienced worker and quality starts to slip through the cracks. Workmanship gets very poor, and they have a hard time managing everything that is happening. This sometimes results in unpaid labor and/or materials and a possible lien against your home. No matter who you use, make sure they have experience managing the amount of jobs that come along with a weather catastrophe