How To Fix A Leak In The Valley Of Roof

This method of lead valley repair is proven to not only be fast and safe wit.

How to fix a leak in the valley of roof. Take measurements of your roof flashing most flashing is 14 inches wide but yours may vary. We removed all old roofing material down to the original wood deck. Move to the highest end of the valley and work your way down cleaning shingles from both sides of the valley whether they re damaged or not. And that s what we ve done here montgomery s old cloverdale neighborhood.

Once the roof valley has begun to leak you will need to cover the valley with flashing in order to prevent a repeat of the problem. Missing ice water shield. This video shows the traditional and best way to repair a lead valley on a roof. A properly flashed roof valley should have an ice and water shield installed with roofing felt being properly secured over the ice and water.

And you can tar it but it s a real stop gap band aid like measure. The right thing to do here is to pull a valley basically pull a valley apart and rebuild it. In order to lay the flashing the shingles on the roof will have to be removed. The best way to find and stop the roof leak is to start over and roof the valley the right way.

Follow these three preparatory steps to get ready to fix the valley leak. And if they put a second layer of shingles on they brought it up the valley but they didn t replace the valley it s probably leaking and cracking and split.