Comments | kirisutogomen: I guess it was due

kirisutogomen

I guess it was due

Mar 03, 2015 10:32

My parents got a new roof in 2013, and they got it with ice barriers, so I thought ice dams weren't a problem. But then I hear that dcltdw and nuclearpolymer also have a new roof, also with ice barriers, and they've got water infiltrating their living quarters. I start to doubt ( Read more... )

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nuclearpolymer March 3 2015, 16:28:24 UTC

Yep, new roof with ice barriers in 2014, and we have serious water leaks. However, I suspect the problem is the weird/stupid shape of our roof. Around the perimeter of the back of the house, at about 12 ft up, there is a 2 ft ledge of pseudo roof. Almost like a decorative ruffle. What has happened is that the icicles grew off the second story roof & landed on the ruffle, turned into huge columns of ice, and covered the ruffle with a 1 ft tall coating of ice while the ice column attached to the house wall. I bet they put the ice barrier on the second story roof, but did not put it behind the shingles of the house wall near the ruffle. Our water is coming in primarily through the first floor ceiling rather than the second floor ceiling, right near the ruffle.

Stupid ruffle.

I don't know how to solve differential equations anymore, but yeah, reasonably healthy and vastly wealthier than most of humanity.