''cat on a hot tin roof'' The Taylors episode 457

I need some help here

[basilmmm]

Hey Jay,
I fixed a buddies roof once who had a similar situation when he first bought his house, we first ground the brickwork down to recess flat 1/8" recessed x 6" to 8" wide from the base up.
Cut the excess off the tar roll to fit in the recessed area  5"-7", leave 1" clear at the top for the top edge of flashing to go, put new tar behind the tar roll, then you need to use a torch to fuse the tar and tar roll together well, use a roller works best, roll from bottom up to get a great seal to building, smooth out with metal spatula on top edge.
Then put new tin flashing with good caulking at all nailed areas with the top edge recessing under the edge where you have the 1" open area on the brick work that you made, caulk again along the top edging, we did this over 7 years ago and it's still going strong in Northern Ontario.
Good Luck Jay hope this help ya man, Peace

[EdOfTheNorth]

There are a couple of things you can do but the absolute cheapest good fix is to take a grinder with a wire brush on it, pull back the shingles which are positioned up the wall and hold them down out of the way while you clean off the cement blocks with the wire brush. Don't tear or break the vertical shingles off. You will have to use a propane torch to heat the shingles just enough to make them flexible OR wait for a very hot day. Once you have a clean cement surface, then scuff up the back of the roofing and glue it back up onto the clean wall. Don't use tar as glue! It won't hold. Ya look. No shit! If the roofers had realized that they would have put something to hold the shingles tight against the wall.

They make various epoxy and urethane products which are very suited to this situation. Once everything is all back up where it belongs, then you put the tar to the surface to seal up any small cracks and holes especially along the bend where the roofing meets the wall. 

If you are bent on using tar as glue, (tar is not cheap either) you will need to afix a 1 inch band of thin flat bar to the cement wall to sandwich the shingles up against the wall. Believe me, the glue is cheaper in the long run and makes for a much easier job overall. 

OR

You could use 36 inch aluminum flashing bent with two 45 degree angles to make the 90 degree so as to leave enough room for the sloppy bend in the shingles and nail the top edge to the cement blocks about 8 inches up with the remainder laying down on the roof - then tar that flap down to the clean gravel free section of roof. This job is getting way expensive now. Good luck. 

OR

You could just hire some kids to drill holes for plastic anchors in the blocks to take screws through the shingles with fender washers and lots of tar in behind and hope for the best. Or if you and Stan want to do it yourselves then bring a big umbrella for some shade. Oh and BEER, PLENTY of COLD BEER.

[napodano]

A bit of fresh tar and a good hot day or a roofing torch with all the old stuff in place you should be able to make something out of it.

Good luck

[MrBeefsteak]

all I can say is wow! run Jay run, that looks like a can of worms.

[wtbm]

I am not a roofer, nor can I see exactly what ya got, but how about some ice guard down first, it seems to stick to anything, then some metal over it. May need to cut a slot along the block wall to stick metal in . On chimneys I do that and fill the slot with Butyl and stick the metal in. 

[RobsPackanShine]

flashing has to be attached or get what u see....then tar'd . you can use shingle type but best it tin flashing nailed to the brick blocks. plus you need to direct the rain off the roof thru gutters
. i see 2 roofs up there...each needs water run off....just like a house with gutters. if not gonna get a leak either up there or the basement.

took my parents 40yrs to understand rain needs to be placed away from the house if not...big problems....they had and basement foundation. both ends.
rain hits 2 places....roof...then walls. separate the two and problems go away

[ziggassedup]

That's going to take a metric shit load of Selleys "No more gaps"..

[tnridge]

when it rains it pours..metal flashing would work. I think .

[-M.C.--]

That roof is very bad done trough the person who did it, what if you glue it back on the place it belong? The leak at the basement doesn't look much better, both not easy to fix I guess.

[marksponge]

I don't think there is a cheap fix to that problem. Would be easier if the wall was flat brick or stone but being uneven like that is a problem on its own.. 

[saskgreenthman]

HAPPY CANUCK DAY KIDS, CHEERS FROM HERES 

[finpainter]

long strip of rubber roofing ice seal first