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If a storm just cleared Florissant and you can see sky through your ceiling, call our 24/7 emergency line now. A live dispatcher will route a tarp crew to your north county address within two hours and start your insurance file at the same time.
When a May hailstorm or EF2 wind event tears shingles off your Florissant ranch, you need a heavy-duty tarp over the opening before the next cell rolls through north county—not next week. Our emergency roof tarping crews answer 24/7, and most Florissant calls near New Halls Ferry Rd, Lindbergh Blvd, or Patterson Rd see a truck on the driveway within two hours. At Top Quality Exteriors, we treat that tarp as the first page of your insurance file: dated photos, measured openings, and every seam locked down before water finds the drywall below.
Our two-hour response, 20 mil tarps, and lath-strip anchoring keep your Old Town plank decking or 1950s ranch sheathing dry until a full repair is scheduled by our Creve Coeur office. Each tarped roof moves straight into our storm damage roofing in Florissant queue, where we meet the adjuster on-site, scope shingles, flashing, pipe boots, and ridge vents, and write a tight Xactimate estimate for the carrier. Missouri gives you up to 12 months to file a claim after the loss date—so the tarp buys time, not corners cut on the real roof work.
Roughly 75% of Florissant’s housing was built between the 1940s and 1960s, which means your tarping job is usually sitting on 60- to 80-year-old 3-tab asphalt, aging pipe boots, and sometimes 1x board decking rather than modern OSB. On May 19, 2025, 2-inch hail and 40 mph gusts tore through Florissant, and the March 2025 EF2 track from Chesterfield through Bridgeton into north county left dozens of ranch roofs with open valleys and lifted ridge caps that could not wait for a Monday crew. Our emergency roof tarp installation is built around that reality: we cover the opening with heavy-duty poly, run 1×3 lath so the wind cannot peel the tarp off a steep gable, and overlap by 24 inches so wind-driven rain tracks past the ridge rather than under it. West- and southwest-facing slopes take the brunt of hail-corridor storms near Koch Park, so we work those first. Once the water is stopped, every job pipes into our storm damage restoration in Florissant file so decking and shingle scope get written up together.
A north county storm call rarely waits for business hours, and neither do we. Below is how a Florissant emergency tarp runs from the first phone call to a dry ceiling, a documented insurance file, and a scheduled full-repair appointment.
You reach a live Florissant dispatcher, not a voicemail tree, at any hour of the day. We take your address, your insurer, and a photo of the opening. A truck rolls out right then.
Most Florissant tarp calls get our truck on-site within two hours. The lead walks the roof, flags the opening, and clears any nearby limbs. Nothing starts until the deck is safe.
We roll a heavy 20 mil tarp over the opening, overlap 24 inches past the ridge, and anchor with 1×3 lath strips. Sandbags hold the edge until the next cell clears Florissant air.
The crew photographs each bruised shingle, dented flashing, cracked boot, and granule pile. We log slope, pitch, and square footage. The folder goes to your Missouri adjuster.
Once the adjuster writes a scope, we book your repair, order shingles meeting Florissant’s material-match rule, and pull the city re-roof permit. The tarp stays until we start.
Florissant was founded in 1786 and is one of Missouri’s oldest towns, and a surprising share of its roofs still carry 1x plank decking instead of modern OSB. That changes how we tarp. A standard poly cover will not hold on a steep gable off Charbonier Rd if the lath cannot bite, so our crews bring longer screws, foam tape to protect the deck boards, and backup anchors sized for aged sheathing. We also know Florissant’s own re-roof code line by line.
The post-WWII ranch belt that defines Florissant—roughly 75% of homes built between 1940 and 1969—carries a different problem: old 3-tab shingles that crack cleanly on impact and pipe boots that give out around year 20. One May hailstorm like the 2-inch event on May 19, 2025, often turns a deferred roof into an emergency roof repair in Florissant file. Our crews tarp first, then help you walk the adjuster through slope-by-slope damage so the scope reflects reality.
Emergency tarping in Florissant runs between $1,000 and $2,000 for a standard roof, with larger openings or steep two-story ranches near the top of that range. A tarp is a temporary cover with a lifespan of roughly two weeks, so the question is never whether to tarp—it is whether to tarp fast enough to stop interior damage. Most Missouri homeowners policies cover emergency board-up and tarping as part of your claim, which is why documentation at install matters.
Missouri gives homeowners 12 months from the loss date to file—some carriers 24 months—so a timely tarp protects both the house and the claim window. We attend adjuster meetings on your roof (your right under Missouri statute), submit the storm damage restoration in Florissant scope in Xactimate, and press for supplements when hidden decking or flashing damage shows up. Any contractor offering to waive your deductible is asking you to commit insurance fraud.
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