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RE: Composition Roof, Roof damage from improper installation, need advice
We get 20 inches a year where I am at in the PNW, but it is mostly drizzle. All of my damage was above the soffit, so nothing inside is at risk. With 4000 under roof, a total replacement would be expensive so yea, I wi...
RE: Composition Roof, Roof damage from improper installation, need advice
The house that I enlarged the vents didn't have ridge vents, only soffit vents. I just enlarged the gable vents because the old ones were coming apart. Yes, I walked all around, looked inside the attic, and found every...
RE: Composition Roof, Roof damage from improper installation, need advice
It has full ridge peak vents and all the wood under the soffits are slit. But knowing a bit about airflow, that is not much. On a previous house, I replaced the small cheap vents under the gable ends with a one that wa...
RE: Composition Roof, Roof damage from improper installation, need advice
So the repair looks like it will work. The shingles were lifted up, nails removed, and rotted OSB and skip sheathing removed. Some of the skip sheathing were rotted pretty bad and the contractor overlaid the OSB on top...
RE: Composition Roof, Roof damage from improper installation, need advice
That blue stuff with the green disks sounds like synthetic underlayment - some brands use those plastic cap staples. It’s supposed to be better than tar paper, but if the starter row was too short and the OSB didn’t reac...
RE: Composition Roof, Roof damage from improper installation, need advice
I have now learned that there are special starter strip shingles that are to be split in half so maybe that installation is correct. I had a few other friends, both experienced in construction, agree that the short star...
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