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Congratulations! Thank you for purchasing asphaltic shingles and/or accessories

from GAF, North America’s largest rooﬁng manufacturer – your best and safest

choice. While many factors can affect how long your shingles and accessories

will last, this Shingle & Accessory Limited Warranty covers your asphaltic

shingles and accessories, including GAF Ridge Cap Shingles, GAF Starter Strip

Shingles, GAF Leak Barrier Products, GAF Roof Deck Protection Products,

and GAF Cobra

Ventilation Products, in the unlikely event that they contain a

manufacturing defect. It provides great coverage that is “non-prorated” during

the crucial up-front period of your ownership (the Smart Choice

Protection

Period) with continued coverage for extended periods of time afterwards. Note:

This warranty does not cover low-slope membranes, Master Flow

Ventilation

Products, and ShingleMatch™ Roof Accessory Paint. Please go to www.gaf.com

for a copy of the limited warranties covering these products.

How Long Your Warranty Lasts

Manufacturing Defects: GAF Lifetime Asphaltic Shingles. Subject to

the provisions below, all GAF Asphaltic Shingles other than Sentinel

, Royal

Sovereign

, and Marquis

WeatherMax

Shingles and Ridge Cap and Starter

Strip Shingles carry a Lifetime warranty (as deﬁned below) against manufacturing

defects and a Smart Choice

Protection Period of 10 years.

Manufacturing Defects: Other GAF Asphaltic Shingles. Marquis

Weather-

Max

Shingles are warranted against manufacturing defects for 30 years; Royal

Sovereign

Shingles are warranted for 25 years, and Sentinel

Shingles are war-

ranted for 20 years. The Smart Choice

Protection Period is 5 years for Marquis

WeatherMax

and Royal Sovereign

Shingles, and 3 years for Sentinel

Shingles.

The warranty term and Smart Choice

Protection Period for Ridge Cap and

Starter Strip Shingles are described below.

Manufacturing Defects: GAF Accessories Used With Any Brand Of

Lifetime Asphaltic Shingles. When you install three or more of the GAF

Accessory Products listed above on your roof with any brand of Lifetime Asphal-

tic Shingles, your GAF Accessory Products carry a Lifetime warranty (as deﬁned

below) against manufacturing defects and a Smart Choice

Protection Period of

10 years. When you install fewer than three of the above-listed GAF Accessories

on your roof with any brand of Lifetime Asphaltic Shingles, your GAF Accessory

Products carry a 40-year warranty against manufacturing defects and a Smart

Choice

Protection Period of 5 years.

Manufacturing Defects: GAF Accessories Used With Any Other Asphaltic

Shingles. When you install one or more of the above-listed GAF Accessories on

your roof with any brand of non-Lifetime Asphaltic Shingles, your GAF Accessory

Products carry a 25-year warranty against manufacturing defects and a Smart

Choice

Protection Period of 5 years.

Definition Of Lifetime: The word “Lifetime” means as long as you, the original

owner(s) [or the second owner(s) if coverage was properly transferred during

the Smart Choice

Protection Period], own the property where the shingles and/

or accessories are installed. The Lifetime warranty and 10-year Smart Choice

Protection Period are applicable only to shingles and accessories installed on

a single family detached residence owned by individuals. For any other type of

owner or building, such as a corporation, governmental entity, religious entity,

condominium or homeowner association, school, apartment building, ofﬁce

building, or multi-use structure, the length of the warranty is 40 years and the

Smart Choice

Protection Period is 5 years.

Failure To Seal/Blow-offs/Wind Damage. GAF Lifetime Shingles, Timbertex

Ridge Cap Shingles, and Ridglass

Ridge Cap Shingles are warranted against

failure to seal, blow-offs, and wind damage for 15 years. All other shingles (other

than starter strips) and other ridge cap shingles are covered for 5 years. There

is no coverage for failure to seal/blow-offs/wind damage for any other GAF

Accessory Products.

Algae Discoloration. All StainGuard

-labeled Shingles and Ridge Cap Shingles

are warranted against algae discoloration for 10 years. There is no coverage for

algae discoloration for any other GAF Accessory Products.

Who Is Covered By This Limited Warranty; Transferability.

You are covered by this warranty if you live in the United States or Canada and are

the original property owner (i.e., not a builder or installer) or the ﬁrst subsequent

owner if this warranty was properly transferred.

This limited warranty may be transferred only once. The second owner must

notify GAF in writing within 60 days after the property transfer for warranty

coverage to be transferred. (Other than this one transfer, this warranty may not

be transferred or assigned, directly or indirectly.) If the transfer takes place within

the Smart Choice

Protection Period, the second owner is entitled to the same

coverage as the original owner. If the transfer takes place afterwards, the length

of this warranty shall be reduced to the two-year period after the ownership

changes. If there is a defect during this two-year period, GAF’s reimbursement

to the second owner will be based only on the reasonable cost of replacement

shingles or applicable accessories, reduced by the amount of use that has been

received from the shingles or applicable accessories from date of installation

through the date of claim.

Manufacturing Defects: What Is Covered/Sole And Exclusive Remedy.

GAF Warranty Company, LLC, a subsidiary of GAF, warrants that your GAF Roof-

ing Shingles will remain free from manufacturing defects that adversely affect

their performance during the applicable Smart Choice

Protection Period or that

cause leaks for the remainder of the applicable warranty term and that your GAF

Accessory Products will remain free from manufacturing defects that adversely

affect their performance during the applicable warranty term.

Note: Failure to seal/blow-offs/wind damage and algae discoloration are covered

separately below.

(1) During the Smart Choice

Protection Period: GAF will pay you the full

reasonable cost of labor to repair or re-cover any defective GAF Shingles or

Accessories (excluding non-GAF accessories, metal work, or ﬂashing) and will

provide replacement shingles or accessories or the reasonable cost of obtaining

replacement shingles or accessories, at GAF’s option. GAF will not pay to tear off

your shingles or accessories, or to dispose of them.

(2) After the Smart Choice

Protection Period: Labor will no longer be covered.

GAF’s contribution to you will be based on either providing you with replacement

GAF Shingles or Accessories, or at GAF’s choice, reimbursing you for the

reasonable cost of replacement shingles or accessories. The amount of shingles,

accessories, or reimbursement provided to you will be reduced to reﬂect the

use you have received from your shingles or accessories. The amount of use

will be calculated by dividing the number of months which have elapsed since

installation to the date of claim by the number of months in the warranty term.

For a Lifetime warranty, the number of months in the warranty term is deemed

to be 600 for years 11 – 40 of the warranty term. For years 41 and beyond of a

Lifetime warranty, GAF’s contribution is 20%. For example, if you make a claim

for Lifetime Shingles installed on a single family home after your shingles have

been installed for 25 years (300 months), GAF’s contribution will be reduced by

300/600 or 50%.

Failure To Seal/Blow-Offs/Wind Damage: What Is Covered/Sole And

Exclusive Remedy.

This Limited Failure to Seal/Blow-offs/Wind Damage Warranty is speciﬁcally

conditioned on your shingles or ridge cap shingles being fastened and installed

strictly in accordance with GAF’s application instructions. This warranty does

not apply to starter strip shingles. GAF warrants to you that your GAF Shingles

or Ridge Cap Shingles will not fail to seal, blow off, or sustain damage from

winds (including gusts) up to the applicable wind speed listed on the reverse

after your shingles or ridge cap shingles should have sealed but did not due to a

manufacturing defect. If your shingles or ridge cap shingles do fail to seal, blow

off, or suffer wind damage, GAF will reimburse you for the reasonable costs of

replacing the blown-off or damaged shingles or ridge cap shingles and hand seal-

ing any unsealed shingles or ridge cap shingles. Costs related to underlayment,

metal work, and ﬂashings are not included. GAF’s maximum liability under this

paragraph is to reimburse you for the cost of hand-sealing all of the shingles or

ridge cap shingles on your roof.

Shingle

Wind Speed Coverage

with special installation

(mph / km/h)

Wind Speed Coverage

without special installation

(mph / km/h)

All GAF Lifetime Shingles 130/209* 110/175

Marquis

WeatherMax

80/130 80/130

Royal Sovereign

Sentinel

60/96 60/96

* Your shingles will be covered up to the maximum wind speed above ONLY if your

shingles are installed using 6 nails per shingle and you have GAF Starter Strip

Products installed at the eaves and rakes.

Ridge Cap Shingle

Wind Speed Coverage

with special installation

(mph / km/h)

Wind Speed Coverage

without special installation

(mph / km/h)

Timbertex

& Ridglass

130/209** 110/175

All other GAF Ridge Cap

Shingles

90/144** 70/112

** Your ridge cap shingles will be covered up to the maximum wind speed above

ONLY if your ridge cap shingles are installed in strict accordance with the “Maxi-

mum Wind Speed Coverage Under Ltd. Warranty” section of the applicable ridge

cap shingle application instructions.

Note: All self-sealing shingles and ridge cap shingles, including GAF’s, must be

exposed to warm, sunny conditions for several days before they completely seal.

Before sealing occurs, shingles and ridge cap shingles are vulnerable to blow-offs

and wind damage. Shingles and ridge cap shingles installed in Fall or Winter

may not seal until the following Spring. Shingles or ridge cap shingles which

are not exposed to direct sunlight or adequate surface temperatures or that are

not fastened or installed properly may never seal. Failures to seal, blow-offs, and

wind damage under these circumstances result from the nature of self-sealing

shingles and ridge cap shingles, not a manufacturing defect, and are not covered

under this warranty.

Algae Discoloration: What Is Covered/Sole And Exclusive Remedy.

This StainGuard

Limited Warranty applies only to shingles and ridge cap

shingles sold in packages bearing the StainGuard

logo. GAF warrants to you

that blue-green algae (also known as cyanobacteria) will not cause a pronounced

discoloration of your StainGuard

-labeled Shingles or Ridge Cap Shingles.

During the ﬁrst year, if your StainGuard

-labeled Shingles or Ridge Cap Shingles

exhibit a pronounced discoloration caused by blue-green algae, GAF’s contribu-

tion will be either the reasonable cost of commercially cleaning your shingles or

ridge cap shingles or, at GAF’s option, replacing discolored shingles or ridge cap

shingles, up to a maximum of the original cost of the affected shingles or ridge

cap shingles. During the remainder of the StainGuard

Limited Warranty period,

GAF’s contribution to you will be reduced to reﬂect the amount of use you have

received from your shingles or ridge cap shingles since your shingles or ridge

cap shingles were installed (100%, reduced by a percentage equal to the number

of months from the installation date to the date of claim divided by 120).

Note: Preventing pronounced algae-related discoloration of your shingles or

ridge cap shingles is achieved through formulations or through unique blends

of granules.

What Is Not Covered

Even if your shingles or accessories were not properly installed according to

GAF’s application instructions or to standard good rooﬁng practices, this limited

warranty remains in effect. However, GAF will NOT compensate you for:

(1) Damages resulting from anything other than an inherent manufacturing defect

in your shingles or accessories, such as:

(a) Improper fastening of your shingles or accessories or application not

in strict accordance with GAF’s printed application instructions, if the

improper installation was the cause of the damage.

(b) Settlement, movement, or defects in the building, walls, foundation,

or the roof base over which the shingles or accessories were applied.

(2) Damages resulting from causes beyond normal wear and tear, such as:

(a) acts of nature, such as hail, ﬁre, winds (including gusts) over the ap-

plicable wind speed listed above, or ice damming above the areas of your

roof deck covered by a GAF Leak Barrier.

(b) impact of foreign objects or trafﬁc on the roof.

(3) Shading or variations in the color of your shingles or ridge cap shingles or

discoloration or contamination caused by fungus, mold, lichen, algae (except

for blue-green algae if your shingles or ridge cap shingles were labeled with

the StainGuard

logo), or other contaminants, including that caused by

organic materials on the roof.

(4) Labor costs, except as speciﬁcally provided for above, disposal costs,

tear-off costs, and costs related to underlayments (unless your claim involves

a manufacturing defect in a GAF Underlayment), metal work,

and ﬂashings.

(5) Damage to the interior or exterior of the building, including, but not limited to,

mold growth.

Other Limitations Concerning Coverage

Decisions as to the extent of repair, re-cover, or cleaning required, and the

reasonable cost of such work, will be made solely by GAF. GAF reserves the right

to arrange directly for your shingles or accessories to be repaired, re-covered,

or cleaned instead of reimbursing you for such work. The remedy under this

warranty is available only for those shingles and accessories actually exhibiting

manufacturing defects or algae discoloration at the time your claim is settled.

Any replacement shingles or accessories will be warranted only for the remainder

of the original warranty period. GAF reserves the right to discontinue or modify

its shingles or accessories, including the colors available, so any replacement

shingles or accessories may not be an exact match for the shingles or acces-

sories on your roof. Even if GAF does not modify a color, replacement shingles or

accessories may not match your original shingles or accessories due to normal

weathering, manufacturing variations, or other factors.

Claims: What You Must Do.

You must notify GAF about any claim within 30 days after you notice a problem

and provide proof of the date your shingles or accessories were applied and that

you were the owner at that time (or that the warranty was properly transferred

to you). If you are claiming a Lifetime warranty on any GAF Accessories, you

must also provide proof of the date(s) your three or more GAF Accessories and

Lifetime Shingles were applied. You must either call GAF at 1-800-458-1860

about your claim, or send a notice to GAF in writing to: GAF, Warranty Services,

1361 Alps Road, Wayne, New Jersey 07470, USA. You will then be provided

with complete details about submitting your claim. GAF may require you to

send to GAF, at your expense, sample shingles or accessories for testing and

photographs. Within a reasonable time after proper notiﬁcation, GAF will evaluate

your claim and resolve it in accordance with the terms of this warranty. Any claim

for shingles or accessories which have been replaced before notifying GAF of

your claim may be denied. NOTE: Notice to your contractor, dealer, or home

builder is NOT notice to GAF. You should retain this document for your records

in the unlikely event that you need to ﬁle a claim.

Sole And Exclusive Warranty

THIS WARRANTY IS EXCLUSIVE AND REPLACES ALL OTHER WARRANTIES,

CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND GUARANTEES, WHETHER EXPRESS

OR IMPLIED, WHETHER BY STATUTE, AT LAW OR IN EQUITY, INCLUDING

THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A

PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This written warranty is your exclusive warranty from

GAF and represents the SOLE REMEDY available to any owner of GAF Shingles or

Accessories. GAF makes NO OTHER REPRESENTATIONS, CONDITIONS, GUAR-

ANTEES, OR WARRANTIES of any kind other than that stated herein. GAF WILL

NOT BE LIABLE IN ANY EVENT FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL,

INCIDENTAL, OR OTHER SIMILAR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, including DAMAGE

TO THE INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR OF ANY BUILDING, whether for breach of this

warranty, negligence, strict liability in tort, or for any other cause. Some jurisdic-

tions do not allow limitations on or the exclusion of incidental or consequential

damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you.

Modification Of Warranty

This limited warranty may not be changed or modiﬁed except in writing, signed

by an ofﬁcer of GAF. No one (other than an ofﬁcer of GAF) has the authority

to assume any additional liability or responsibility for GAF in connection with

your shingles or accessories except as described in this warranty. This limited

warranty gives you speciﬁc legal rights, and you may also have other rights which

vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. (Note: Warranty subject to change. For

current information, visit www.gaf.com or write to GAF at 1361 Alps Road,

Wayne, NJ 07470, USA, Attn: Warranty Services.)

Effective Date

This limited warranty is effective for GAF Asphaltic Shingles and GAF

Accessories installed after January 1, 2013.

The GAF Shingle & Accessory Limited Warranty