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Representing the first line of defense when a bout of week-long torrential rains hit your area, or when a snowstorm paralyses your entire neighborhood, a roof is an essential piece of your house that needs regular checkups to do its job effectively, so to speak.

Whether it’s a bunch of dead leaves capable of slowly rotting down the wooden parts of your roof or a violent hail storm that destroyed a large number of roof tiles, taking care of damages by restoring and erosion on your roof is not only desirable but absolutely necessary if you meant to keep not getting when whenever it rains outside.

In this article, we’re going to propose to you a prevention-is-half-a-cure type of argument by saying that you’ll end up saving more money if you repair your roof by restoring before it gets damaged than waiting for it to get properly trashed to act. Right then, folks here’s the lot.

Quarterly Roof Inspections

1. Spring

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Taking care of your roof throughout the year doesn’t mean you’ll have to be up there every day obsessing over every itsy bitsy imperfection. Four times a year should be enough, unless, of course, there’s been some sort of extraordinary disaster that would require a prompt checkup. (Like a tree falling on your roof, or more snowfall than usual.)

Generally speaking, a spring roof checkup should include:

• A gutter inspection for loose parts and leaks,
• Drainage areas,
• Rusty metal parts,
• Cracked wooden beams, and
• Mold.

2. Summer

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Out of the four seasons, the summer is probably the least taxing on your roof. Indeed, since there is not much going on during the spring in terms of rainfall and leaves falling out of the trees, probably about the only thing you’d need to worry about would be the heat.

These are some of the potential perils, and you need to pay attention to before the start of the summer:

• Overhanging trees with branches that look as though they may fall onto your roof,
• Debris, leaves, and other junk in your gutter,
• Heat during the sunny days, because it can cause warps in some of the materials.

3. Fall

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Representing possibly the toughest season on the roof in terms of moisture and the number of leaves that tend to fall into the gutters, fall can be quite tough on your roof, so it’s essential to take specific measures to make the typical fall business less rough for your roof.

For example, you need to clear out the gutters regularly because if there’s a tree nearby, you can count on many dead leaves on your roof, in your drainage, in your gutters, and on your face. So, everywhere, pretty much.

Here are some of the areas you need to pay attention to when the fall arrives:

• Gutters, because of the heavy leaf infestation, so to speak,
• Drainage areas where mold and more leaves can concentrate,
• Roof tiles – because they may have cracks and other imperfections that let water in.

In general, just before the fall sets in may be a good time for a complete gutter replacement, because if you leave the old battered ones on and then there are heavy rains during the entire fall, you may have to spend even more money, later on, to try to fix the water damages.

4. Winter

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Another rough season for the roof that comes complete with cold weather, snowstorms, heavy rainfall, ice, and hail.

To protect your roof from damages, you should check the following parts of your roof:

• Loft insulation – because low temperatures can make your entire upper house colder,
• The wooden beams supporting the roof, because snow weighs more than rain,
• Gutters, because they can get frozen and break under the ice if they’ve already been damaged before.

All things considered, taking care of your roof is a serious matter that shouldn’t be taken for granted. Bottom line, as long as you invest in restoring your roof before it gets damaged, you have a great chance of spending less money on it overall, than if you were forced to fix a broken roof. We hope this article convinced you how proper maintenance could cut your costs down, and we wish you worry-free roof inspections.

Author Bio: Miriyan Muller is a passionate blog writer who is fond of writing about renovation, design. She usually spends her time on reading the related articles which are inspiring in order to learn a lot of things in the world.