Showing posts with label Repairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Repairs. Show all posts
Sky Lights
This week's project is a roof replacement on Cherokee Lane in Hide-A-Way Hills. The roof had developed some leaks over the Winter mainly in the area of some of the six Sky Lights. When we removed the shingles we found that two of the Sky Lights had been installed incorrectly and that none of them had been installed to our standards.
Water leaks are a common problem with Sky Lights, but with the proper precautions the Sky Lights I install, or the roofs I install around them virtually never leak.
My technique is to apply a self-adhering modified-bitumen underlayment to seal the Sky Light curb to the roof deck creating a watertight barrier. When the shingles and flashing are installed the underlayment is designed to seal around nails that are driven through it to provide continuous protection year after year.
A little roof repairing was the order of business today. A commercial roof on a garage in Columbus had been damaged by some of the recent storms. We used a Polymer Modified Bitumen, commonly called torch-down rolled roofing, to patch the problem areas on the roof. While I would never recommend installing a new roof without removing the old roofing material, torching down a patch will solve the problem until later on in the season when the customer can have the entire roof replaced.
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