| This EPDM roof is about five years old. The roof ponded water, and leaked horribly. When we began tearing the roof off, we found this mess. The prior *roofer* had attempted to level a low spot in the roof with several layers of osb sheeting, click picture for larger image, see additional picture and info below. | |
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| After removing one sheet, we discovered shingles, apparently used to help build up this low spot. There was a broken truss under this mess which was the cause of the low spot, filling it with construction debris and roofing over it only added insult to injury, and did not keep the roof from ponding or leaking. |
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| Installing shingles on a low slope roof, is asking for trouble (shingles shed water, they are not a water proofing material), so.... installing shingles on a FLAT roof is begging for water damage. As a side note, no shingle manufacturer in the world would warranty this installation. *Click picture for larger image* | |
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To compensate for improper installation of a metal roof, someone decided this was a good idea, they were wrong. *Click picture for larger image* |
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This roof had three layers of granulated 90# (rolled roofing), apparently, the drain detail was more than the most current installer could handle, very sad. *Click picture for larger image* | |
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This roof had suffered wind damage.
The roof was "repaired" by an individual knocking on doors offering roof repairs. The homeowners received a rude awakening when it rained. |
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New asphalt shingles were installed over rotten wood shakes. The first wind storm proved rotted wood is not a good fastening surface. | |
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This is a two year old roof installation. There are too many mistakes on this small area of roof than we have space to list. Clearly a lack of installation knowledge which equals an ineffective roof system. |
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These shingles were installed six months prior to this picture. Needless to say this roof leaked horribly. Sadly the shingles were installed over two other layers of shingles, all three layers had to be removed and a new roof installed correctly. | |
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This is another area of the roof pictured above. Just when we thought we had seen it all, we came across this roof. |
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The shingles on this roof were two years old. Every ridge on the roof had mastic (tar like substance) smeared on it. The ridge cap was installed incorrectly and we assume there had been a leak. Instead of locating the problem, and correcting it, someone made the decision to do this. | |
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This roof had new shingles installed less than two years prior to the pictures. You will notice there is roofing tar around all pipe boots (boots were not replaced) and at the junction of the two ridges. **Click on picture for larger image**
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Same roof as shown directly above. Note the tar at not only the junction, but also on the shingles under the eave (overhang)... obvious signs of leaks shortly after installation of *new roof*
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This is yet another area on the same roof (above). This valley installation is not anywhere close to any manufacturers specifications. Not quite sure what the installer had in mind here. *click picture for larger image*
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This single ply membrane roof system was installed one year prior to the picture. There was no pipe boot installed on this pipe, instead it was smeared with caulking. Also, the fastener heads are exposed, with caulking spread on top. This is a leak waiting to happen. *click picture for larger image*
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Some creative person found a cheaper method of flashing a pipe...yes, it's duct tape.
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This roof illustrates poor installation of shingles. You don't have to be a roofer to spot the problems here...... think waves. *click picture for larger image* | |
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Same roof as pictured directly above, as you can see, the problem of crooked installation continued to the ridge. This could be a case of installing shingles blindfolded? |
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Here is an example of poor planning. This pipe boot is the wrong size, too big for the pipe... to compensate, plastic ties were used to make it *fit*. | |
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*click picture for larger image* There are several things very wrong in this picture, one worth noting is the creative chimney flashing. Granulated rolled roofing gooped with tar is not the proper way to flash a chimney..or anything for that matter. |
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| Ok, this is not a new roof, but a fairly recent attempt at wind damage repair. A single ply membrane was nailed down at the edges, leaving nail heads exposed, and an interesting wood ballast to keep the material from blowing off. We are not sure what the owner was charged for this *repair*, but anything was too much. *Click for larger image* | |
