ah the dam roof is leaking!

[Trikeaholic]

I knew this day would come. Its been 10 yrs at this old 1890 farm house. I been puttin the bathroom roof off for years. I guess I got a bad ice jam. It wiped out the sheetrock on the wall, and one panel on the cieling. I got a propane weed burning torch, Should I go up and try to melt the ice?? then what do I do?? Im no carpenter. crap crap crap crap. Its a new bathroom too. It trashed a new cabinet as well. and its still leaking! ahhhh nuts................ :mad:

[Billy Golightly]

Go melt the ice off and lay some plastic over the spot where its leakin holic, temp fix for a few days anyways.

[mike from long island]

dont burn your house down!!!! roofing is easy you can do it lol get some metal flashing and shove it under the shingles were it looks bad. always remember you want watwer to run over and out not over and in. as long as water has a place to run and not get caught you wont have a leak. please be careful we dont want to lose such a sweet man as yourself or for the right trike ill leave tonight and redo your entire roof.

[Trikeaholic]

My bro and I did half the roof a few years ago, the one section wasnt too bad, so I let it go for a while, now its too late! Soon as spring comes, its time to finish the job, you guys are more than welcome to come help!

[foster]

Assuming it is leaking near the edge of the roof, you can get some wire that runs in a zigzag pattern all along the eaves, and for about 15" up the roof, that heats up and stops any ice jams near the edges of your roof. That won't fix your leak but it will stop it from happening again after you fix it.

Years ago I lived in an 1800s farm house. Got up in the middle of the night in a huge rainstorm to go pee and saw a big bulge in my wall, as if the wallpaper had formed a balloon. I thought I was stuck in a scene from The Exorcist movie! I didn't know what to think of it and neither did the woman who was my wife at that time. So I told her to get her biggest sewing needle and poke it.
SPLASH!
Water had been leaking into the wall and collecting behind the wallpaper and had ballooned out from behind the rubberized wallpaper. When she poked it, she was drenched in about two gallons of freezing cold rainwater.
I didn't get lucky later on that night!