Hip Roof Shortcuts for faster claims
Sometimes it just makes sense to diagram and measure a roof yourself.
If I don't have access to an Eagleview and the roof isn't extremely complicated, I will - more often than not - just diagram and measure the roof myself.
An important tip: I will add up my measurements BEFORE I get off the roof so that if I missed a measurement, I don't have to climb back up my ladder. Also, if there's a threshold that I have to exceed before I can pay for a full replacement, I want to know that before I get back in the car to write everything up.
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Shortcuts (text version):
Shortcut #1 - in this shortcut, we ADD the biggest valley length and it's little corresponding hip ridge. These two together equal the main hip ridges - also, the valley measurement is the same as the hip ridges on the corresponding offset.
Shortcut #2 - if you look at the right and left slopes NOT INCLUDING any offsets from the main roof, you'll see a triangle. If you get HALF of that length, double it, and then add it to the MAIN RIDGE LENGTH, you'll get the MAIN EAVE LENGTH. I only get half of this triangle length because if there's an offset, I can't see where to stop measuring. But I CAN see the peak and so I will line myself up with this peak and then double that measurement.
Less walking around and fewer physical measurements means we're off this roof FASTER with an accurate diagram.
