Roofing - How to find a roof leak

Roof leak? How to find a roof leak.
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[tegmapat]

A roofing co. was putting on a neighbor's new roof, so I asked the man to come look at mine & give me an estimate. He found that the shingles were fine, but like yours, the nails in various places needed caulking. He was kind enough to do that for me at no charge, as an elderly woman of 80. At any rate, I still have one more leak in my This one seems to be more than the other quarter sized spots had been, so I don't know if it's the nails, or in this case, a vent around the area where the leak is. I'm too old to get up there myself, so I guess I will have to hire someone, but at least now after watching your video, I will be protected from any scams. Thanks! I can't help but wonder tho' if you always do roofing repairs in high winds like that? It looked like you had a terrible storm coming! Of most importance is to be safe!

[sircooper]

For those who are on strict budget or live check to check this is a great (temp) fix. Most roofers would still try to sell u an entire roof. Great honest video/tip 👏🏼

[dave]

Thanks for the video. I’ve searched as best as I can from the rooftop. My roof is leaking from a spot which is inaccessible to inspect from inside the attic and interior of the patio roof that has a stucco ceiling. Now I’m wondering if camera on a long snake like apparatus could be fed into the void from a ceiling light fixture to help locate the leak. Thanks for posting your method and fix. Good for you helping out so many of us.

[jeanie]

Thank you. Honestly, I was more worried about you falling off the roof. My roof seems to have a leak periodically, so annoying because it's only 3 yrs. old.

[norsco]

Thank you, that's given me a starting point on how to figure out where the leak's originating.

[nataliaturkestanskaya]

Thanks, very helpful. Roof of my house leaking constantly, no matter whom we hired for repair, didn't help us. From last year we started to fix our roof ourselves and it is much better now, but still from time to time we have leaks in different places on our roof.

[princenamor]

Why is that considered a temporary fix? Shouldn't that type of fix last several years? You covered it with metal and sealed around it. Looks good to me.

[itsjustme...whitney]

Same thing happened to me is a couple of the nails and a valley is leaking I put a metal thing under my mother's anyways it's not a lot of water is not coming it's just ridiculous and it's not horrible anyways thank you for at least showing and doing things I do appreciate that I just watched the video that I don't know why this guy was just like pointing and saying yeah you need to do this get a whole new roof and it's like no you didn't even do anything so.. I appreciate you for giving us you know actual info

[IGREJAWILMINGTONNCUSA]

Outstanding! Thank you for the valuable tip

[frederickcollins]

Nice touch there...tying the ladder against the wall. Wonder why I never thought about that. 🤫

[roadstar]

If its not obvious you will need to go up in attic to find where the water is getting in...thanks for sharing

[brunorios]

Also, i find that the smooth shank air gun nails used on my roof decking by the builder migrate up throgh shingles creating leaks and some edge seems nails missed trusses or barley caught them. been fixing periodic nail pops for 15 years. now gonna fix all those with spiral shanks and new roof

[Thinkfreeful]

Thank you. All great trouble shooting points.

[DMM]

Thank you very much for the information

[bubbless]

I’m having a bad leak in my ceiling and I don’t even know where to start! How do you find the leak on a roof that isn’t obvious?

[dc-wpoc]

If only it were that simple in every case. Been looking at our roof for a couple days and while in the attic, can see the water where is drips in.
Go on the roof and all looks normal. No tears, popped nails, or ? Hate to just start tearing shingles off but running out of ideas.

[aztecwarrior]

So I guess all shingles need to be flat to the roof. I have two bent upwards and have an opening on the sides, i have been getting leaks. I was thinking of fillingm the openings eith tart. about half an inch opening

[sockz]

No 3 point contact on the whole ascending ladder and no control zone or not Using fall protection harness and lanyard 🤷🏽‍♂️

[brunorios]

good quick fix that can last several months if need be. caulking alone quicker failure rate.

[sambromley]

Currently trying to locate a leak underneath a solar array. And I’m realizing I need to find a new job. I’m an electrician. I shouldn’t be doing this. Don’t even have a slight clue on where to start.