Types of Loss/Residential/Roof & Snow Load

Snow Load Is a Framing Loss with a Roof on Top.

Sagging ridges, cracked rafters, bowed ceilings, doors that stopped closing. Atlas documents the structure and writes the repair the engineer's report calls for, the roof over it, and the interior it moved.

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The Process

When a roof deflects under snow, the shingles are the least of it. Atlas photographs the framing from the attic, records ridge sag, cracked members, and racked openings, and where an engineer's letter is required, writes the structural repair from it. Framing, temporary shoring, the roof, and the interior finishes go into one Xactimate® estimate from a measured sketch, top down and trade by trade.

Where Scopes Come In Short

Sister Versus Replace

Cracked rafters get sistered or replaced as the engineer specifies, and each is a framing line with its own labor. Collar ties, ridge sections, and the sheathing that comes off to get at them are their own lines too.

Cracks from Movement

Drywall cracks at corners and over doors, doors that bind, and trim that opened at the joints are structural damage showing up as finish repair. They're scoped room by room, painted to the natural break, two coats.

Holding the Roof up

Temporary shoring while the framing is repaired is a line item, and so is the engineer. Where the roof comes off to fix the framing, it's the whole slope, with the height and slope charges carried.

Getting to It in January

Snow removal from the roof, access, staging, and protecting the interior below an open roof are general conditions on a winter loss, along with dumpster planking so the roll-off doesn't wreck a frozen driveway.

Code Note

Reframing is sized to current snow-load provisions, which set the design load by town and can call for larger members or a redesign. The difference is written as a code upgrade on its own line.

What Comes Back

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Framing repair per the engineer, temporary shoring, the roof over it, and the interior cracks from movement, in one estimate, top down and trade by trade, with access, snow removal, and protection as general conditions. Room-by-room photo report, including the attic. Measured sketch.

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