Begin at the stain
Where water shows up inside the house is the end of its route, not the start. It travels along rafters, runs under the deck and drops wherever something interrupts it.
Water rarely enters directly above where it appears. Finding the real entry point is most of this job, and it is the part a cheap patch skips.
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A leak is the one call we treat differently. Water already inside is working on insulation, plaster and framing every day it continues, and the longer it runs the more of the bill becomes interior rather than roof. These get looked at sooner than ordinary measures for that reason alone.
Where water shows up inside the house is the end of its route, not the start. It travels along rafters, runs under the deck and drops wherever something interrupts it.
The underside of the deck is the most informative surface in the building. Daylight, dark tracking and compressed insulation point back up the path far better than guesswork from the slope.
With a direction to work in, the outside search is short — the nearest penetration, valley, chimney junction or lifted course above the line the water took.
You see the thing letting water in rather than a description of it. That matters more here than anywhere else, because a leak repair is invisible the moment it is finished.
Put something under the drip, move what you can, and photograph the stain each day so its spread is on record. Do not climb up to look: a wet slope is the most dangerous surface on a house, and a day's delay costs far less than a fall.
A full strip to bare boards and a new system, quoted in squares and sheets rather than one figure.
Read the page →Targeted work on shingles, flashing, valleys and boots where the covering around them still has life in it.
Read the page →Post-storm assessment with measurements and photographs detailed enough to stand up to scrutiny.
Read the page →An hour on the roof producing squares, pitch, condition notes and photographs — the document a second opinion is built on.
Read the page →Inspection, repair and replacement of the wall surface under the roofline, by the crew already working above it.
Read the page →Seamless runs, correct fall and discharge that puts water somewhere other than against the foundation.
Read the page →An hour on the roof, the numbers written down, and a straight answer about what it needs.
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