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March 12, 2010 at 4:45 p.m.

hurricane roofer

i am trying to stop a leak on a grvel roof. i already stripped the roof to the decking,saw the water and kept going untill it was dry. i then put fiberglass base and granulated torchdown to the area and then cemented around the perimetr. in a light rain it doesnt leak, but when it pours it is still leaking a little. ive been trying to fix this leak twice. my next step is to spud bac 3 feet around patch and put fibered emulsion around the whole thing! is that the right move? what would you do?

April 13, 2010 at 3:47 p.m.

dutchboy6804

Make sure you are where the leak BEGINS, and not where it ENDS,(ENTRY POINT COULD BE FARTHER AWAY).

March 17, 2010 at 11:11 p.m.

egg

If the roof is no longer considered a viable thing, that is if it's just a stop-gap repair on a lame-duck membrane, patch it any way you like. No matter what you do, it has to be clean or else dirt, rock, and carbon will just corrupt the repair. Getting it back to clean hot membrane with a torch, a mop, primer, light solvent and a rag, soap and water, or telekinesis, is absolutely a must although many people since time out of mind have had mixed results just blasting something on. It quite often works. But a righteous repair has to laminate. One nice thing about a dissimilar patch material is that there will be no argument...everyone will always be able to see exactly what was worked on, even from a great distance. Another good thing about a dissimilar patch is that if you have to widen it later, you know exactly where to start. Spudding an old rock job is pretty easy. Relocating a recent graveled in patch? Oh, yeah; you won't lose track of that. If you have a small kettle and you have a torch, I believe the kettle goes with the BUR and the modified goes with the modified. If you don't have both, you make do the best you can. If it is within the acceptable range for the customer, it's all good.

March 13, 2010 at 10:55 a.m.

egg

Now, now. Be nice. I'm not too pusillanimous to extract my three-ply glass from that list. The top of the line is always to make whole, like to like, and to leave it looking like there is no patch.

March 13, 2010 at 8:52 a.m.

robert

Check your end laps on your granulated to make sure have a good seal,if its a steal deck it could run 30 or more feet easily.If this is a permanent patch you will need to mastic and membrane the perimeter.About a year or so down the road the torch seal will start separating from the tar,seen it to many times before.I dont see no mention of membrane in your post,so i presume you used none in your tie in?

March 12, 2010 at 5:15 p.m.

egg

Spud back two feet around the patch, mop on three ply glass, feathering each edge, and gravel it in.


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