Roof Fixes
With the roof now dried out from the storms earlier in the week, Lisa went up on the roof to inspect the three plumbing vents and to make repairs as needed.
This is one of the three plumbing vents. They all showed similar gasket failures, due to many years of accumulated wear, mostly from harsh desert sun, but now and then from hard and sometimes snow.
There was sealant around all three of these vents where they entered the building through this flange. Where the sealant had worn out, water could get in and flow down the outside of the vent pipe into the roof. Note that this was not a case of water coming in through the open-top vents. Having open-topped vents is not a problem. Water going down the inside of the pipe simply flows into the sewer. water leaking down the outside of the pipe is a problem and is what caused the bulge in the paint in the front bathroom.
Lisa scraped off all of the old, worn-out sealant from all three roof vents.
Here, she is working on the pipe over the front bathroom.
Once the old gasket and sealant material was removed, it was time to apply "instant gasket" spray sealant around the three flanges.
Lisa sprayed sealant liberally around the base of each of the three vents and left it to dry.
Today, she went back up on the roof to check the seals.
She says that they look good, although she may go back up again in a few days and use the rest of the can of spray sealant to apply a second coat.
While she was on the roof checking the seals (you can see the main bathroom vent behind her in this picture), she noticed at there were several more roof shingles whose nails had worked themselves slightly loose, so she got a hammer, went back out along the roof, and with me watching from ground level, she pounded the nails back down.
I'm grateful that Lisa is this handy with these sorts of repairs. Most of the roof here is much less steep than, nor is it as high as the roof up in Mehama. However, the roof on the second floor is nowhere near as easy to access as is the lower floor, and while Lisa does have the safety harness and rope from her work on the house in Mehama, she has as yet not figured out a place where she feels safe attaching the safety line. She is still thinking about it, though.
This is one of the three plumbing vents. They all showed similar gasket failures, due to many years of accumulated wear, mostly from harsh desert sun, but now and then from hard and sometimes snow.
There was sealant around all three of these vents where they entered the building through this flange. Where the sealant had worn out, water could get in and flow down the outside of the vent pipe into the roof. Note that this was not a case of water coming in through the open-top vents. Having open-topped vents is not a problem. Water going down the inside of the pipe simply flows into the sewer. water leaking down the outside of the pipe is a problem and is what caused the bulge in the paint in the front bathroom.
Lisa scraped off all of the old, worn-out sealant from all three roof vents.
Here, she is working on the pipe over the front bathroom.
Once the old gasket and sealant material was removed, it was time to apply "instant gasket" spray sealant around the three flanges.
Lisa sprayed sealant liberally around the base of each of the three vents and left it to dry.
Today, she went back up on the roof to check the seals.
She says that they look good, although she may go back up again in a few days and use the rest of the can of spray sealant to apply a second coat.
While she was on the roof checking the seals (you can see the main bathroom vent behind her in this picture), she noticed at there were several more roof shingles whose nails had worked themselves slightly loose, so she got a hammer, went back out along the roof, and with me watching from ground level, she pounded the nails back down.
I'm grateful that Lisa is this handy with these sorts of repairs. Most of the roof here is much less steep than, nor is it as high as the roof up in Mehama. However, the roof on the second floor is nowhere near as easy to access as is the lower floor, and while Lisa does have the safety harness and rope from her work on the house in Mehama, she has as yet not figured out a place where she feels safe attaching the safety line. She is still thinking about it, though.