My wife and I took a drive up A1A to one of our favorite places, St. Augustine. The drive along the coast is a great way to wind down after a long work week. While this is a regular excursion for us, we had not been to St. Augustine since Hurricane Matthew until recently. During the drive, I could not stop pointing out all the mismatched shingles & roof tiles, granular loss and blue tarps.
Understandably, my wife wanted me to turn off “work mode”. That was the point of the drive, right? However, I could not help to wonder how many homeowners were taken advantage of not knowing that a policyholder may be entitled, under Florida law, to matching shingle/tile replacement. In many instances, in the event a matching replacement cannot be located, the insurance company must pay for entire roof replacement per Florida law. What is meant by granular loss? Simply, look at a shingle roof. If you can see a pattern in the shingles that was not there before the hurricane, then you may have granular loss. It may be more defined now, several months later, as dirt accumulates differently depending on the amount of granules on a shingle. As for tarps, why are there so many tarps still? Are roofing companies that backlogged or are insurance companies failing to pay insurance benefits?
