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/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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Hey, /diy/.

The roof on my mother's house is leaking pretty bad. We added an anti-leak treatment on it, but the leaks persist. I decided to probe about and ended up ripping up entire sheets of what is essentially a geologic timescale of her house's past leak treatments. I noticed that there was water under the basest level (right below the oldest layer) on some areas and it was damp at others and some of it even had fungus, which alarmed me.

Plus, some of the top layer of the roof's cement also started coming off or breaking apart as I chipped away at the treatment. Pretty much all the work we did the previous days went to shit and it's my fault for wishfully going along with my mother's orders and believing she knew what she was doing. After I showed her all the crap I was pulling off the roof, she decided to consult some guy that apparently knows about this stuff, even though he didn't notice the very obvious fucking bubbles on the roof in the first visit.

Anyways, he says we have to essentially blow off all the treatment, new and old, with a power wash and then add a whole new layer of surface cement to the roof and then add the treatment once again to the new cement.

I don't fully trust this guy and I want to consider what my options are before investing on materials to fix upwards of 1200 square foot roof.

Any way to locate the leaks, add whatever necessary cement to said leaks and fix this problem without having to go through such extremes?

I'd provide pictures, but the sun just went down.

>tl;dr Very leaky roof. How do I fix?

>> No.1516721

>>1516607
Nah. If it is old as fuck and leaking everywhere it's time to throw money away.

If u dont trust the guy get an estimate from another guy or 2.

>> No.1516843

>>1516607
>Any way to locate the leaks, add whatever necessary cement to said leaks and fix this problem without having to go through such extremes?
no, do it right or it will only get worse

>> No.1517145

>>1516607
Having done a couple summers roofing (and it is a shitty job).

it's only possible to patch a roof so many times. Then the whole thing becomes futile.
Time to rip off the old stuff and replace. After that it should last a good long time.

Do your research and get a lot of quotes. The good roofers will tell you not to skimp on quality and explain in detail what has to be done.

You can save money if you do the shitty work like hauling debris and cleaning the job site. That's actually how I started. Saved some money for my parents and wound up working on a roofing crew. Decent pay but nothing sucks more than slinging hot tar in the summer sun.

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>>1517145
OP here. I'm sure that sucks, but have you ever been a dishwasher? Literally Restaurant Bitch Boy, the job. It's genuinely amazing to see waiters complain about their job and talk shit with the chefs while you're bicep deep in a Campbell's Soup Broth of leftover food and whatever whatever the guy that was mopping threw into the sink. "Oh yeah, you were also supposed to mop, did we tell you that?"

Safe to say, I've stopped tipping waiters.


Here's some pics, if that changes anything.

Think it's a good idea to find the leaks, patch them THEN hydraulic cement everything? I ask due to my noobness at life.

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>>1517173

>> No.1517175

>>1517174
The half done light blue parts and the part that wasn't even touched was not me, mind you. I had nothing to do with those. Literally the laziest shit I've ever seen.

>> No.1517187

>>1517174
>flat roofs.

Why, you niggas just asking for leaks.

>> No.1517191

>>1516607
Why does your mom have a cement roof anon? Don't you guys have tiles where you live?

>> No.1517206

Silicone Roof Coating System

>> No.1517451

>>1517187
>>1517191
We live in Puerto Rico. Everything here is flat. Tiles are a thing, but most places have flat roofs. I love it, personally. Exercising is great on a wide openspace like that.

>> No.1517497

Skim coat it with 3 parts sand 1 part cement and however much kryton the website States to use. It must be at least 2 inches to handle the weight. Or use another skim coat that can go on thin add kryton still.