jkilroy
Diamond
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Well, rained all night, I was up every hour ALL DAMN NIGHT! Still no return call from the roofers.
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MilGunsmith
Stainless
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2006
- Location
- Sandyston, NJ
I need to replace the leaky roof on my home shop, 30'x30', only has 8" of pitch from front to back. It has 3' wide asphalt roll roofing on it now, that the old owner has put multiple coats of roof coating on. Any suggestions short of pulling it all off an reframing it with a 5" on 12" pitch and shingling it?
mjydrafter
Aluminum
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- Oct 16, 2002
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- Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Is the roof spray foam iso with a polyurea protection layer, or did they just use polyurea? Either way the roof "should" be monolithic, ie no leaks because there aren't any seams ect.
Another problem associated with "flat" roofs is that leaks can be right under a problem, or they can be heck and gone from where you see the problem, which can make finding them a challenge.
Do you know who the manufacturer of the polyurea is?
Another problem associated with "flat" roofs is that leaks can be right under a problem, or they can be heck and gone from where you see the problem, which can make finding them a challenge.
Do you know who the manufacturer of the polyurea is?
Dan from Oakland
Titanium
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- Sep 15, 2005
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- Oakland, CA
One suggestion- find out who manufacturer of the coating system is as mjydrafter suggested. Contact them, explain the problem and ask what the manufacturers waranty is, etc. They may offer an inspection. If your roofing contractor has a contractors license, they have to post a bond with the state ( at least in Calif. they have to). Contact your state contractors license board and check if this contractor has a bond and inquire if there are any other complaints against them. They will usually step in on problems like this. Leaky roofs are the pits, more so if you have paid to have them fixed. Flat roofs just plain su*k, don't ask me how I know!
Good luck.
Good luck.
We have a (I mean a few) leak(s) over our porch flat felt roof which was patched up by a rogue last year and the leak is worse than is was before the mend!!!!!
I've been trying to get people in to fix it but nobody seems interested!
Obviously short of cash and desperate as the rain started to pour down, we are thinking of doing it ourselves. A colleague of mine said they got the materials from B&Q and did it themselves.
Any advice on how to DIY this ourselves?
Thanks.
john.k
Diamond
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- Brisbane Qld Australia
If you look back (its all 2006) you see one guy says "flat roofs always leak".....this is a simple fact,always has been ,always will be.
john.k
Diamond
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- Dec 21, 2012
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- Brisbane Qld Australia
Funny item on the news here ......high rise discovered (like after about 10 years of complaints) with so much water infiltration that the internal fixtures are held up by mould alone......wood framing all rotted away.
it looks some kind of a news?
Toolmaker51
Cast Iron
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- Jan 13, 2009
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- Central West Missouri
The only appreciative members of flat roofs is the crowd offering maintenance contracts. Literally cutting mine out and hoisting trusses cost $80k to seal 6500 square feet. And no maintenance contract. My per square foot cost is still at what 7 years rent would have been in SoCal.
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