Brice, Don't know how one does the slashing in your area of the country, here we use aluminum slashing and we step the slashing with the shingles or slate roofing. WE would start at the edge of the dormer wall and lay down a piece of slashing Put the shingle on it and another piece of slashing overlapping the first piece by 2 inches and keep stepping the shingles and slashing. RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Brice Mijares To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 15:17 Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] roof leak
My cousin came over and found where the roof is leaking. I have a two story house, There is a gabled roof on the top story, then on one side there is a wall with a raked section of roof. Where the raked section meets the wall is where I got a leak. He lifted the tiles and found moisture where there shouldn't have been. He said that the flashing was crushed probably during the stucco application, and the paper finally deteriorated and allowed water to seep in. So, He's going to come over later in the week, lift up about 12 feet of tiles, tear out the flashing, put down new paper, lay down some tar where the flashing goes and renail the tiles back down. I asked him how these cement tiles are made where they can be nailed down, and he said when they are casted, the casting molds leave to places where roofing nails can be driven in. He thinks I may get away with out having to replace any of the dry wall. Being where the leak in the dry wall was located, the water was dripping at a seem. There is no visible water marks on the vaulted ceiling. We'll just retape the area, sand it, and repaint. So, I may get off cheap, just material cost. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
