Claire CJS
20130712 0231 - leaky roof - IMG_5201
Terror In Bedroomville!!! Lighter-sleeper Clint awoke in time to avert a more damaging disaster. Our roof had started leaking in our bedroom! It was basically dripping through our bedroom's air conditioning vent. If uncaught, our bedroom would have possibly been covered in probably-electrified water. Power strips all over the floor, etc.
Being lazy, Clint leveraged the benefit of his early discovery to get Carolyn to be the one to go to the attic & investigate. She found the culprit & took this picture.
A nail through our roof! Why is this one nail longer? WTF? Was this a hack-job by a previous owner? It looked like it had previously leaked, and they had sprayed Great Stuff around it to fill the leak... But upon closer inspection, that was actually a yellow fungus. Ewww.
A bucket worked just fine in the short-term.
In the long-term, Clint went up on the roof the following weekend and slathered it with roofing cement. (Can't remember if we removed the nail and replaced it with a normal-length one or not.)
Over 2 years later, it still has not leaked again.
People who call roofers for leaks are stupid. $160 fall-harness to wrap around your chimney (which I probably didn't even use this time), $15 roof cement, $99 ladder, and 10 minutes is all you need. Especially if you keep your ladder leaning against your roof because you don't have a shed. Speeds roof repair jobs up!
bucket, fungus, house, nail, repair, roof.
attic, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
July 12, 2013.
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20130712 0231 - leaky roof - IMG_5201
Terror In Bedroomville!!! Lighter-sleeper Clint awoke in time to avert a more damaging disaster. Our roof had started leaking in our bedroom! It was basically dripping through our bedroom's air conditioning vent. If uncaught, our bedroom would have possibly been covered in probably-electrified water. Power strips all over the floor, etc.
Being lazy, Clint leveraged the benefit of his early discovery to get Carolyn to be the one to go to the attic & investigate. She found the culprit & took this picture.
A nail through our roof! Why is this one nail longer? WTF? Was this a hack-job by a previous owner? It looked like it had previously leaked, and they had sprayed Great Stuff around it to fill the leak... But upon closer inspection, that was actually a yellow fungus. Ewww.
A bucket worked just fine in the short-term.
In the long-term, Clint went up on the roof the following weekend and slathered it with roofing cement. (Can't remember if we removed the nail and replaced it with a normal-length one or not.)
Over 2 years later, it still has not leaked again.
People who call roofers for leaks are stupid. $160 fall-harness to wrap around your chimney (which I probably didn't even use this time), $15 roof cement, $99 ladder, and 10 minutes is all you need. Especially if you keep your ladder leaning against your roof because you don't have a shed. Speeds roof repair jobs up!
bucket, fungus, house, nail, repair, roof.
attic, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
July 12, 2013.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL at wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL at wordpress.com