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Leaky Roof

Had a leaky roof, they just came ad re-roofed the whole building.

reply to robbin
Nah I just think the forum was renamed for what it's mostly about: Leaky roofs. T'is the season.

Next storm season it will be called: Generators

reply to robbin
Looks like I now have an entire forum dedicated to my leaky roof

Sadly the leak (while minor) is for real and needs to be taken care off this summer. Still undecided about trying to get a spot fix or replacing the whole roof (roofers estimate was that it has "at least 5 years" useful life left).

On the April's Fools front, it appears that there are quite a few forums under a new roof

Security => Chinese Hackers
All Things UNIX => All Things Eunuchs
Electronics => Forks in Toasters
Wireless => Look Ma No Hands
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reply to robbin
Never had a roof leak but have plenty of water in the crawl space...

reply to robbin

Same difference -- both need proper waterproofing.

reply to robbin
Actually I do have a leaky roof, first quote I received Saturday is for $5000!! Ouch!!

To fix or replace the roof? If to replace the roof that isn't bad depending size and if a tear off..

Actually to replace the entire roof, and a complex one as well. The previous owners of the house got the cheapest contractor in town to do the roof, and neglected to reconfigure the eavestroughs with an addition on the house, so half the tiles look ok, the other half crumbling apart. I should have done it last summer, but other priorities prevailed, including new eavestroughs and downspouts.

reply to robbin
I had something else leak... wait.. I need to go see what my kids are doing....

reply to robbin
Oddly, only when it rains...

Probably why there aren't many leaky roofs in Texas the last few years -- no rain!

reply to ArthurS
Our roof cost us just shy of $10K in Ohio.

reply to robbin


Traveling salesman gets to a house in a pouring rain. Goes inside, and sees dozens of buckets littered around the house, all catching raindrops coming through the roof.

Salesman: Looks like your roof sorta leaks eh??

Resident: Ya, it sure does.

Salesman: How come you don't fix it?

Resident: Well I can't, it's raining now.

Salesman: Well why don't you fix it when it's nice out?

Resident: Cause when it don't rain, it don't leak!!!.

Salesman: *Facepalm*

Matt, you need to tell that one to Santa Fe. He might want to add it to his collection of groaners.
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reply to leibold

Composite shingles (which seems to be the most common type) about 20 to 25 years old. By the look of it a basic/inexpensive type but professionally installed by a company that has a reputation for quality work (and unlike many others is still in business today).

Most of the roof area has a good slope for good water runoff but there is also an area where the roof is fairly flat. One roofer on inspecting the roof commented that he didn't think shingles appropriate for that portion of the roof. The leak (exact location has not been determined) appears to be either a valley where the almost flat roof joins a regular sloped roof section or somewhere near that valley within the almost flat roof section.

I should probably mention that many times on even heavy rainfall the roof does not leak. With the correct wind direction however it will drip even when there is very light rainfall.
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There are several different types of coatings that can be applied to make it waterproof.

reply to leibold
Yes everyone seems to like shingles.. It sounds like your first step is to use the clues, (wind direction, location of drip) and try to figure out exactly where your leak is. Once you find it, (and that's often quite deceptive) then you can make and informed decision on which way to go.

If I were to guess, I'd think that you likely have wind blown water going back up under the shingles in a low pitch area of the roof.

As for me I have an antique tar & gravel roof, and it's got a few problems, I've been working getting them all fixed up and recovering the roof with an elastometric coating so it should last at least another 10 years.

I also have no idea why anyone would want to put on a shingle roof in Florida. (yes I see your in cali) in the 50's & 60's pretty much all the roofs were T&G now those are rare. But when a hurricane came in, the T&G roof's stood up to it. The shingle roofs of today just sort of fly away (even the storm rated shingles).