Start in the attic
With a light, following staining and tide marks uphill along the framing and the underside of the deck until the trail runs out.
Roof Leak Repair in Medford Township, NJ
On a wide roof water can travel a very long way along a rafter before it finds a ceiling. The work is to walk that path backwards rather than patch under the stain.
Tell us where the stain is — (609) 474-9238 In short
Distance is the problem
In a small attic a leak is usually above the stain. In an attic that runs forty feet, water entering at a valley on one wing can track along a rafter and come through over a bedroom in another. Guessing from inside the room is how a roof gets patched three times in the wrong place.
How it is traced
Working back to the entry
Identify the plane
On a multi-plane roof the trail usually ends under a specific valley, dormer cheek or chimney, which narrows eight planes down to one.
Match it from above
That patch of roof is then gone over from the outside for the actual opening.
Water test where needed
A hose worked slowly up the slope in sections while somebody watches from inside. Slow, dull and the only certain method on a stubborn one.
Worth knowing
Why the decorating waits
Plaster and drywall stay damp for days after the entry is closed, and fresh paint over a wet ceiling blisters. The roof gets fixed and the decorating waits until the mark has dried and stopped growing, which is also the clearest evidence the right opening was found.
Also on the list
The rest of what this crew does
Roof Replacement
A measured tear-off on a large multi-plane roof, decked, dried in and reflashed plane by plane.
Read the page →Roof Inspections
A long look at a long roof, plane by plane and then from underneath, with everything found photographed and written out.
Read the page →Roof Repair
Work on the two or three places a big covering has actually failed, rather than a figure for replacing all eight planes.
Read the page →Storm & Hail Damage Roof Repair
Hail bruising, wind lift and limb strikes located by hand across all eight planes, then written up with dated photographs.
Read the page →Siding
The walls under a wide roofline, including the long soffit runs that the attic depends on for its air.
Read the page →Gutters & Downspouts
Long gutter runs under heavy tree cover, which fill faster here than anywhere and take the fascia with them when they do.
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Describe the stain
Where it is in the house, how big it is, and whether it grows during rain or hours afterwards.
Describe the stain — (609) 474-9238