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If a storm hit your Clayton home and water is finding its way in, don’t wait it out. Call our 24/7 tarp line — a crew rolls out the same day, often within two hours. We stop the leak first and back every square foot with our 36-month warranty.
A tree limb punched through your ridge overnight, or a wind-lifted section of shingles is now flapping over your bedroom — either way, water is on its way in. Emergency roof tarping in Clayton is what stops the bleeding while you and your insurance carrier sort out the real repair. Top Quality Exteriors keeps a 24/7 tarp crew ready for Wydown, Carrswold, Claverach Park, and every pocket of the county seat that took a beating during the May 16, 2025 EF3 tornado. Every minute a hole stays open, drywall and hardwoods downstairs get closer to a claim of their own.
Our tarping playbook is simple and fast: heavy-duty poly tarp anchored with lath strips over the damage, sealed at the eave, and weighted at the ridge so it survives the next round of severe thunderstorms. A single tarp buys you roughly two weeks — enough time to schedule a proper inspection, meet the adjuster, and line up the full storm damage roofing in Clayton scope of work without living under a bucket in the meantime. Most policies cover emergency tarping as mitigation, so we document it for your claim file.
Clayton isn’t a subdivision full of eight-in-twelve architectural asphalt roofs — over a third of homes here were built before 1939, which means slate, clay tile, steep pitches, and complex valleys with soldered copper flashing. A poorly anchored tarp on a slate roof cracks tiles, scars soft flashing, and creates a bigger insurance headache than the storm did. Our crews step where slate can take weight, spread load with padded lath, and secure tarps at the ridge and eaves instead of nailing straight through original decking. On the low-slope condos and office low-rises around Forsyth and Central, we switch to weighted ballast that won’t puncture TPO or EPDM membranes. That care matters because Clayton’s tree-lined streets — Wydown especially — still see limbs coming down from the May 2025 EF3 recovery, and the metro averages three to five significant hail events per year. When you’re weighing tarp versus a same-day patch, our emergency roof repair in Clayton team makes that call on the ground.
When you call after a limb-strike or a tornado-driven shingle blowout, we don’t want you guessing what happens next. Here’s the exact sequence we run every time we roll a tarp crew to a Clayton address, from first call to dry roof.
You reach a real person on our 24/7 line, not voicemail. We ask three things: where’s the damage, how big, and is water already inside? That tells us which crew and tarp to load.
A tarp crew rolls from our Creve Coeur base within the hour, faster after a metro storm. We stage tarps, lath strips, sandbags, and a drone. You get an ETA text before we leave.
We walk the perimeter, fly the drone, and locate every breach — a two-foot hole or a lifted ridge run. You see what a tarp will cover and what it won’t before we climb your roof.
Heavy-duty poly goes over the damage, anchored with lath or sandbags to match the pitch. We seal the eave and weight the ridge so it holds tight. No nails through original slate.
You get a plain-English report: what we found, what the tarp covers, and rough damage dimensions. Drone photos and a full adjuster-ready packet are shared before we pull away.
Storm-night calls are a different animal than routine scheduling — you need someone who actually picks up and whose insurance, licensing, and paperwork hold up when the claim starts moving. Top Quality Exteriors was founded in 2022, and our owner brings over 7 years of industry experience running crews through hail seasons and ice storms. We are licensed in Missouri and Illinois, carry general liability and workers’ compensation, and hold an A+ BBB rating.
During the May 2025 EF3 recovery, our team spent weeks tarping and documenting damage across Wydown, Carrswold, and the Claverach Park streets that lost mature oaks onto old slate roofs. Owens Corning Preferred Contractor and James Hardie Alliance status back the eventual work, whether it stays a spot repair or grows into full storm damage restoration in Clayton. Every job carries our 36-month workmanship warranty starting from the very first nail.
Emergency tarping in the St. Louis metro typically runs $1,000 to $2,000, with the higher end covering large or multi-story steep-pitch damage that needs more crew and material on the roof. Scheduled, non-emergency tarping — the same job with no midnight surcharge — usually costs about 40 percent less. Every tarp is temporary; a heavy-duty poly cover buys roughly two weeks before UV, wind fatigue, and freeze-thaw start to compromise the seal.
Most homeowner policies treat emergency tarping as mitigation, which means the carrier reimburses it separately from the roof repair itself — usually with no hit to your deductible. Missouri gives you 12 months on most policies (some 24) to file a storm claim, and skipping the tarp step widens interior damage: soaked drywall, stained hardwoods, mold in wall cavities. Paying $1,500 tonight to avoid a $15,000 interior claim is straightforward math after a Clayton storm.
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