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I am looking for advice from someone who knows about these kinds of things.
I have pictures and would really appreciate it if you could tell me what you think the problem is or if it is even a problem. The roof on my 1 year old house and vertical bumps and just today i found water dripping on siding. the pics from the roof are from last year when rood was 3 months old. The company told me this is normal. Please let me know what you think.
Lilypad
I am looking for advice from someone who knows about these kinds of things.
I have pictures and would really appreciate it if you could tell me what you think the problem is or if it is even a problem. The roof on my 1 year old house and vertical bumps and just today i found water dripping on siding. the pics from the roof are from last year when rood was 3 months old. The company told me this is normal. Please let me know what you think.
Lilypad
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Greetings (post #196791, reply #1 of 10)
The roof looks terrible. If this is normal I'd hate to see abnormal. The lines appear to be at the ends of plywood sheeting-however, they are at less than 8' apart. What is the truss(i assume) layout of this roof?
The water may be more simple to answer. Was the vent shown for a dryer or bath vent? If dryer, almost looks like hot air was exhausted and the resultant fog made from a dryer exiting into sub 30's temp condensed on the soffot and somewhat on the siding, then dripped down.
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damn paragraph thing quit (post #196791, reply #8 of 10)
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Paul (post #196791, reply #9 of 10)
I think the same thing with the sheeting size but I didn't count the tabs-just looking at the picture I was thinking the 8' looked long for the bumps and no person could be that off with layout to cut every sheet to 6'6" It's got the repeat and the stagger.
Add your observation to my thinking I haven't seen a shingle that cheap looking in a long while. Might be that most at least try to look like a dimensional here in the affluential neighborhoods of NW Oh.
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Roof (post #196791, reply #2 of 10)
I have to agree with the other poster, that looks terrible, it looks like they didn't stagger the joints on the sheathing and didn't use enough nails, if thats gutter that I see it looks like it has no fall on it, that could be a possible future leak if you don't have one now
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Yeah, looks like a (post #196791, reply #3 of 10)
Yeah, looks like a 20-year-old roof on rotting OSB.
Hard to say about the drip down the siding without more info.
Whereabouts do you live??
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. --Thomas Edison
Uh Oh (post #196791, reply #5 of 10)
First - Stay off of the roof. Many builders will void your warranty if you get on the roof. Even if this is a means and methods problem you don't want to get into the warranty fight.
Second - It's a problem. If your builder is a stand up guy, he will be tearing into that immediately with no fuss. If he is not, document your conversations, get estimates and paper the file.
Take a pix inside the (post #196791, reply #4 of 10)
Take a pix inside the 'attic'
looks like 1/2 ply on 8 ft centers - yowsa.
Even my scrap sheds dont look that bad, it will only get worse.
Care to share the 'company' name?
I suspect that the dryer or (post #196791, reply #6 of 10)
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Yeah, I ran into two (post #196791, reply #10 of 10)
Yeah, I ran into two different homes in Biloxi where the bath vent was never connected to anything.
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. --Thomas Edison