I get to play the go-to guy.
Lady has had a rough time hiring help over and over and the last a roofer did her ugly. (an old post about the guy who rolled Grace I&W shield over cedar shingles and started roofing with fiberglass archies)
Anyhow, in a downpour the other day when I was there reworking her rotted floor water started dripping in a couple feet inside from the ext door there thru the beaded ceiling.
So I got to looking around and found the high splash factor from the gable to the porch roof which appears when in a strong rain to penetrate down the wall under the flashing the guy attempted to place there.
Now the lady’s been pouring bucks into the place and is trying to control the spending as she wants to sell it and let the buyer put the new siding on it.
So I need to stop the leaking without getting on the runaway train.
If I remove the fake brick fiberboard product on that side of the gable and run flashing sheets up the roof
seating the new flashing atop and against the brown flashing there with the roofing paper shown in the pic
placing the top of the new flashing under and against the clapboard siding will the half inch gap from the removed fakebrick be problematic?
I know a gutter would go a long way to helping correct the prob but will this surfice? Can’t rebuild the whole house.
whew!
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Betcha 2 doughnuts and a Tim Horton's double-double when ya yank that fake brick board yer gonna find more rot.
This is a fix-to-flip job? Yank the fake brick; scrape off as much rot as you can on the sheathing and framing, poison the hell outta what's left, and slap up some more fakee brick board.
Yuck, but wtf. Make very very sure the HO knows exactly what you're doing and what you're not. Send her a detailed e-mail (or registered letter) explaining that you are, at her request, and in compliance with her instructions, and because of her limited budget, making a cosmetic repair only, and that the underlying problem has not been addressed.
Make sure you get a 'read' receipt for that e-mail (or reg. letter), and keep it and the message on file.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
foolish men call Justice....
heh, somehow I think I'd be having a hard time locating any of the fakebrick asphalt impregnated fiberboard product unless I swiped it from another place on the house.
I haven't roofed in Oklahoma in 20 years, but 30 pound felt over cedar and the archys was common. There is skip sheathing under most of those cedar roofs, and the whole house would have to be sheathed before roofing. We only used 30 year timberlines though.
I have many memories of Oklahoma working in the bad parts of N. Tulsa.
Low riders slowly cruising by checking to see the new guy in the neighborhood,
meth labs exploding down the street and being the first there to see the guy running around in circles with 2 ft flames leaping up his back,
and spongey rolled roofs on section8 rentals that have never had any major work done to them since built in post warII.
heh heh Seen stuff that gave a new meaning to the word 'cobbed' in those many little shotgun shacks.
Edited 6/2/2009 10:05 pm ET by rez
It ain't real nice up there on the north side.
yep, a zoo by the zoo.
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We can imagine something that only exists in our heads, in a form that has no measureable, tangible reality, and make it actually occur in the real world. Where there was nothing, now there is something.Forrest - makin' magic every day
I think I'd be having a hard time locating any of the fakebrick
Uh, yeah. I 'spoze so....
Mebbe swipe some from one of da neighbours' joints? Nah....
Hmmmm....
Got it.
Slap up a few sheets of Durock, and glue some half-inch-thick deco brick to it.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
wan'r one of yur places done up in that???
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Ya, but she wouldn't be up to springing what it would take for the labor.
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John RuskinAndrew Clifford of Clifford Renovations, who serves as a steward of our history for future generationsWe can imagine something that only exists in our heads, in a form that has no measurable, tangible reality, and make it actually occur in the real world. Where there was nothing, now there is something.Forrest - makin' magic every day
Edited 6/3/2009 12:44 am ET by rez
hardie...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"