Your Roofing Contractor and Roof Installation Guide
How-to articles, the best roofing videos, and information from experienced roofing professionals to make your next roofing project a success. Whether you're looking for advice on hiring a roofing contractor, roof repair or leak prevention, or copper roof installation, you will find help here.
Roofing Contractor F..kups
- Category: Uncategorised
Leaks, hacks, failures, and other roof problems caused by roofing contractors cutting corners.
Roof shingle nails placed too high and over driven by the roofing contractor results in the shingles sliding and blowing off the roof in high winds. Roof shingles fastened in this way are not covered by the manufacturers warranty.
Drip Edge Installation
- Category: Drip Edge
Proper practices for the installation of roof drip edge flashing.
Roofing drip edge or cap is the metal flashing that covers the wood decking at the edge of a roof and supports the roof shingles.
It is intended to prevent water from contacting and damaging the roof decking, prevent the roof shingles from drooping over the roof edge, and improve the appearance of the roof line.
The causes, removal and prevention of roof ice damming.
Ice dams are large areas of ice that build up near the lower edge of your roof when melting snow freezes as it contacts the cold edge of your roof and rain gutter.
The buildup of ice blocks subsequent snow melt from running off the roof and allows water to pool and then leak under your existing shingles and into your house.
Symptoms include, major icicles forming on the gutter, icicles behind the gutter, icicles hanging from the soffit vents, and leaks and stains along the interior and exterior ceiling and walls. Ice dam leaks can also ruin your roof sheathing, rot the gutter board and soffit, and loosen the gutter, shingle, and drip edge fasteners. 