How To Fix A Leak In The Valley Of Roof

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How to fix a leak in the valley of roof.

This video shows the traditional and best way to repair a lead valley on a roof. This method of lead valley repair is proven to not only be fast and safe wit. Follow these three preparatory steps to get ready to fix the valley leak. Move to the highest end of the valley and work your way down cleaning shingles from both sides of the valley whether they re damaged or not.

The best way to find and stop the roof leak is to start over and roof the valley the right way. Once the roof valley has begun to leak you will need to cover the valley with flashing in order to prevent a repeat of the problem. Clear any debris in the roof valley and surrounding area. A properly flashed roof valley should have an ice and water shield installed with roofing felt being properly secured over the ice and water.

In order to lay the flashing the shingles on the roof will have to be removed. And if they put a second layer of shingles on they brought it up the valley but they didn t replace the valley it s probably leaking and cracking and split. If the ice and water shield is missing then you will have to remove the shingles on both sides along the valley put ice and water shield in place and re shingle the roof. And you can tar it but it s a real stop gap band aid like measure.

We removed all old roofing material down to the original wood deck. Take measurements of your roof flashing most flashing is 14 inches wide but yours may vary.