Repeated hail damage to asphalt roofs
Asphalt shingles marketed as hail-resistant simply do not hold up, forcing people to replace their roofs multiple times within a decade. Because another strike feels inevitable, homeowners with a visible hole urgently try to find sensible quotes to replace just a single broken tile.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Switching to metal roofingDid this help you?
- 2Using rubber-based EuroshieldDid this help you?
- 3Using F-Wave TPO-based shinglesDid this help you?
- 4Using Malarkey asphalt shinglesDid this help you?
- 5finding the broken piece and epoxying it back in placeDid this help you?
- 6using a strong construction adhesive like CT1 to reattach the broken cornerDid this help you?
- 7applying Flex seal to the breakDid this help you?
- 8swapping in a spare tile yourselfDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“This is the 2nd time I have to replace my roof within 10yrs. (Asphalt shingles in Tx) So it's probably a matter of time before I get hit again.”source ↗
“And no matter how much they say these are hail resistant asphalt shingles they don't hold up for shit.”source ↗
“I woke up this morning to find one of my tiles broken. It looks like I need to get this sorted urgently as there's a visible hole.”source ↗
“How urgent is this? Can I get a single tile replaced? What cost am I roughly looking at here to ensure my quotes are sensible?”source ↗
Where this came up
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