Even Giants Can Get Roof Damage: Apartments

When most people think about roof repair, they think about houses. Those buildings that house a single family or the duplexes that are home to a few families. Don't forget about apartment buildings. These giants have one roof that collectively covers the heads of several families and single residents. Their roofs are just as much at risk for damage from storms or fires. We tend not to think about them because most of them are tall and therefore our brains think they're out of reach of trees. However, trees can get mighty big and come crashing down with force. We've got a few apartment building roofs that succumbed to some damage:

Several UC San Diego students were evacuated early Tuesday morning after a large tree fell down onto an apartment building, causing damage to the building's roof.

The incident happened at around 1:30 a.m. at an apartment complex in the 9200 block of Regents Park Row in La Jolla.

No one was injured in the incident, but the students were forced to relocate to another apartment unit nearby.

Crews were summoned to the scene to assess the damage and remove the tree.

Via: http://www.10news.com/news/students-evacuated-after-tree-falls-onto-apartment-building-022817

There's also this story, where the tree glanced off the roof but still caused damage:

Firefighters evacuated dozens of people from a North County apartment complex Friday after a fallen tree ruptured a gas line.

The big pine, estimated to be about 100 years old, came down in the Pacific Pines complex in the 1700 block of El Camino Real in Encinitas. It hit the roof of one apartment unit with a glancing blow and cracked open the natural gas line that feeds the hot water system for the entire complex..

Crews from the Encinitas Fire Department evacuated 20 to 30 people from units that were downwind of the broken gas line until utility crews from San Diego Gas & Electric were able to turn off the gas shortly before 6 p.m.

Most residents were allowed to return to their apartments, but about several apartments were badly damaged.

Via: http://fox5sandiego.com/2017/02/17/apartments-evacuated-after-fallen-pine-ruptures-gas-line/

And lastly, here's another piece:

Residents of an El Cajon apartment complex are demanding answers after unfinished work on the complex roof allowed the recent rain to damage their units.

Families, including many with small children, live at the Courtyard Villas apartment complex near Jefferson and East Camden avenues. After Monday’s storm, the ceiling of the complex had gaping holes, due to an unfinished construction project.

“They woke up [Tuesday] to just leaking everywhere on the roof. Basically, this morning things were collapsing,” said Nancy Moreno, whose mother lives in the complex. “No one even got notice they were going to do roof work.”

Tuesday afternoon, bags of clothes and other property piled up along walkways. One unit didn’t have electricity for a time.

The complex’s property manager, Eduardo, declined an on-camera interview, but later came out in front of our camera telling tenants, “I’m telling you right now, if you want to get a room at the hotel you can. Don’t complain later that I didn’t offer.”

Eduardo said he’s trying all he can to fix this situation and it’s a process. He said he’s offering affected tenants at least two nights at a hotel. When asked, he would not provide the name or contact information of the property owner. He said he did not know the name of the company hired to do construction.

Via: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/El-Cajon-Property-Manager-Unfinished-Roof-Caused-Rain-Damage-331039042.html#ixzz4aBnbiqKD

While the last one didn't involve a tree, the fact remains that there was an issue with the roof that compromised the homes beneath it. The tree in the North County story might have been to weak to puncture the roof or it just wasn't tall enough. Chances are, if the roof was poorly put together the tree could have damaged it as well as the gas line. Never put off roof-repairs. It's your job as tenants to be aware of work going on for your building by either speaking with your building manager or being on the board for the building, if applicable. When it comes to repairs and installations, we can help you with both of those: http://sandiego.preciseroofing.net/roof-repair/, http://sandiego.preciseroofing.net/roof-installation/. We've got you covered.

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