RJ, it's different out here in California. Most roofs like mine have 3 quarter inch ply wood with felt paper, and flashing in valleys and edges and where stucco may meet a lower roof. Now up in the high country of California they have different codes for roofing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "RJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] roof leak
> 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] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following > address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
