r/Roofing

Home is 8 years old in Alberta. Original owner. Trying to figure out why there are extra sheets of OSB in the attic. Had 3 contractors look at it so far but nobody can tell me why it’s like that or how to fix it.

It’s a 2 storey house and the second floor is about 4C warmer than the main floor in the summer and 4C cooler in the winter. There is a bit of black mold on the attic hatch.

Any ideas what the builder was trying to accomplish by building it this way? I’d hate to pull it out if it has an actual purpose. Builder isn’t responding to my emails.

Edit: Thanks for the explanation. I obviously know very little about attics!

Everywhere we look we find a question had the team lead out again yesterday who tried to get us to sign a "Roof is up to our standard" paper because he already came out twice.

Wife figured they didn't put a barrier on our boxed eves and

I'm assuming we shouldn't see bare plywood am I wrong?

This is on the inside corner closest to house. The other eve is the same way.

We are in kcmo if that helps with requirements.

Hi, I am absolutely paralyzed with color choices for my roof. I’m getting a full replacement using certainteed landmark shingles. Currently, it is a reddish color.

What color of certainty landmark shingles do you think would work best? These are my options:

Burnt Sienna Driftwood Heather Blend Sunrise Cedar Weathered wood

🙏 Thanks!!!

I’m in a townhouse and this is a shared wall but our peak of the roof is slightly higher than neighbor.

We are getting an inspection done but wanted to get input before. The house has a swamp cooler where you can see a white stain from when the water leaks out. The seller said this usually happens whenever it’s really windy. I noticed shingles were lifted and it looks warped from afar. This would be our first home purchase and have no experience with roofs. Any thoughts would be appreciated! TYIA!

Hello, everyone. Roof replaced around summer 2020 per the prior owner. He gave me his roofer info, who believes these are GAF HDZ Weathered Wood. I looked at that shingle brand and color and it looks quite a bit different. Any thoughts greatly appreciated! The algae resistance of these shingles is not that great, though prior owners had pine straw sitting on the roof per street view images.

My roof was replaced about 3-4 years ago by the previous owner. Its a split level home and the second floor gets hot if the AC is not running.

The attic has blown in cellulose and batt insulation over that. I have installed AtticFoil radiant barrier and seen zero improvement when reviewing the Govee sensor data as compared with the outside temp.

On the eastern side of the roof I have 4 passive louvered vents. On the western side i have solar panels on about 3/5 of the roof or so and thats it.

On a previous question on this topic in a different subreddit, it was mentioned that i may have ventilation problems.

I removed the soffit covers in an area thats easily accessible to me

Noticed that the older wooden cover is still there. With what would seem like the older soffit vent holes. I can see the baffles from there and incan see them in the attic as well.

Are the baffles installed correctly? Should i make more cut outs in the wood to improve ventilation?

These are Timberline Shakewood shingles, 50 year warranty, installed 2016. But the tree has really grown, and moss has spread. Is this a job for Wet-and-Forget, or is it time for replacement, or do you have a guess on how long before replacement?

You really have to neglect your chimney/roof to allow things to get this bad. I flashed this chimney for a friend of a family member, I only charged the guy a couple hundred bucks, he paid for a bundle of shingles and I supplied the Resibond and solder so I basically worked for free on a Sunday .

Can't get rich on every job I guess 😆

I have a concrete tile roof. We recently bought the home. During renovations we discovered rodent activity in the roof.

The roof doesn't have plywood sheathing underneath. Just strapping and then the underlayment and then the framing.

Is it possible to actually seal up this type of roof to prevent rodent access or will there always be gaps? Trying to decide if we need to replace the roof or not based on this. The hips and valleys seem to be the most vulnerable spots but I don't really understand what is under the tile in these sections to know if it's even realistic to think we can keep rodents out.

Happy 4th!

As I was cleaning my gutters this morning I noticed that our roof has 1. Quite a bit of moss and 2. I had a ton of asphalt grains in my gutters.

I am listing my house for a rental and would love to not have to worry about the roof and any potential leaks.

Any suggestions and opinions would be appreciated!

Three-story historic timber-frame sail loft in coastal New England. I’m on the second floor. During heavy wind-driven rain only, water comes through my living room ceiling in the exact same location as a leak two years ago. Previous roofer repaired flashing around the third-floor French windows because they thought water was entering there. This storm, the third-floor windows and doors were confirmed closed, but the leak returned and was worse than ever. The water follows a perfectly straight ceiling seam before dripping. If you were diagnosing this, where would you start looking? How bad is it?

I'm a homeowner putting up my first metal panel roof (exposed fastener) on a large shed. Things are going well, except for the metal panel overlap shown in the photo must have shifted when we fastened it down and the gap is a little wider than ideal and than our other ones. I noticed this after putting a few more panels on afterward.

Is this overlap OK, or am I likely to get leaks from wind driven rain? It is a steep section of roof. If the gap is too much, what's the best way to fix it? Should I unscrew it and add caulk or butyl tape in the gap, and if so, where on the ridge is the best place to place it?

UPDATE: We do have foam closures underneath the screws. They may be a little higher than we should have put them, but it was due to predrilling holes and having to adjust the overhang to 1" rather than 2". If you look closely you can see the gray foam inside. I'm mainly looking for advice on the overlap, and not all the other things that people are pointing out. Thanks.

As you can see, it's bad.

My parents house is old and falling apart (built in the 50's, not much upkeep). This spot on the roof has been leaking into the kitchen since I was in my teens. At this point, the ceiling in our kitchen is BAD. Like, it's going to collapse in one day, and that leak has traveled into the floor beneath, so that needs replacing as well.... add in the rusting pipes, the dead electrical in multiple rooms... we just need to (literally) keep it from falling apart long enough to sell it and get them something smaller.

I don't know why it didn't occur to me until recently that i could just climb up there and do something about it, and maybe if it was 10 years ago this would be DIYable. It's not, and we don't currently have the money to replace a huge chunk of that roof.

My question is: what can i do to patch this while we GET the money? I just want to stop it from getting any worse. I'm willing to get up there, and I do have the advantage of being lightweight (~135 lbs).

My first thought was to climb up there and just tape a huge blue tarp over the whole area, but i have no idea how to properly seal it. I snagged some 12×10 ft flex tape, which seems like it would work, but i have 0 experience roofing, so i thought I'd ask.

We bought our house a year ago and kinda got screwed by a seller that hid damage that would be pretty obvious if you lived in the house, but they were sneaky about hiding it (broken bathtub drain that was hiding a leak, shower that leaked but only obvious once we pulled the carpet up in adjacent closet, etc.) They also told us they didn’t know when the roof was installed but thought it was 2012, and then we found out after closing it was 2004.

Needless to say we are overwhelmed, and then had someone knock and say they were “in the neighborhood” working on another house and noticed our roof and were really concerned about it given the weather and wanted to offer to check it out. We said no thanks, we know the roof is old but it hasn’t leaked. They told us we were playing with fire, and they wouldn’t be surprised if our insurance dropped us.

Obviously we (well my husband lol) told them to leave, but does their claim have merit?