Overnight Storm Damage Make-Safe and Permanent Repair

The challenge

Overnight winds stripped roughly forty tiles and displaced two ridge tiles, with water entering the first-floor bedroom of an occupied rental property. The landlord needed both immediate protection and an insurer-ready record.

Recommended solution

Emergency attendance to make safe and weatherproof the same day, followed by a full photographic report for the insurer and a permanent repair with enhanced mechanical fixings suited to coastal exposure.

Work completed

• Same-day make-safe visit and temporary covering
• Removal of loose ridge tiles to eliminate falling risk
• Photographic damage report issued to the insurer
• Permanent re-tiling of the affected slope with matched tiles
• Mortar ridge replaced with a mechanically fixed dry ridge system
• Storm-clip fixings applied to exposed perimeter courses

Outcome

Demo outcome placeholder: tenants stayed in the property throughout, the claim was settled on the submitted report, and the upgraded ridge specification reduces repeat wind damage risk.

Before and after

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