Blumengarten
Member
Hi Folks,
I had a new asphalt roof put on my house two years ago. Almost immediately, I noticed that it was leaking around the chimney (it had leaked there before the new roof was put on) so I called the roofer and he put a couple tubes of up around there. I thought it was fixed and didn't notice any more damage until this summer when I decided to finally remove the plaster and fix the damage. With the plaster gone, I noticed that it's still leaking with every rainfall. I asked a neighbor who is a contractor and he went up and put another couple tubes of roofing asphalt up there, but it's still leaking! (The neighbor shook his head when I told him who put the roof on; I'd chosen the roofer because he'd put my mom's roof on 15 years ago and it's still leak-free.)
How should this be fixed? More tubes of roofing asphalt? I live in Pittsburgh, we've had an extremely wet summer and we sometimes get very bad winters. The roof is rather steeply pitched so I'm not going up there myself.
Thanks!
I had a new asphalt roof put on my house two years ago. Almost immediately, I noticed that it was leaking around the chimney (it had leaked there before the new roof was put on) so I called the roofer and he put a couple tubes of up around there. I thought it was fixed and didn't notice any more damage until this summer when I decided to finally remove the plaster and fix the damage. With the plaster gone, I noticed that it's still leaking with every rainfall. I asked a neighbor who is a contractor and he went up and put another couple tubes of roofing asphalt up there, but it's still leaking! (The neighbor shook his head when I told him who put the roof on; I'd chosen the roofer because he'd put my mom's roof on 15 years ago and it's still leak-free.)
How should this be fixed? More tubes of roofing asphalt? I live in Pittsburgh, we've had an extremely wet summer and we sometimes get very bad winters. The roof is rather steeply pitched so I'm not going up there myself.
Thanks!