Well, it seems this winter has gotten the best of our roof. This past weekend we have been working hard on the guest bedroom to fix it up for the end of March.
We noticed around the window some cracks and little brown spots - oh yes it was water. I took off the screen on the window and looked outside and there was water and ice all over the brick dripping down from the flat roof.
This morning I called some places and Serge from All County Aluminum is coming tomorrow morning at 10am.
It sounds like we have an ice damn on the flat room. I did some research (shocking ) and basically what happens is that as the snow melts and freezes there is a large build up around the gutters. This blocks the normal path of flow for further melting. As a result all of the water just sits on the roof and causes problems - as we've seen.
So tomorrow they are going to remove the snow and ice from the flat roof and go from there. I will update the blog tomorrow with the progress. (And some pictures of the guest bedroom so far).
Oh the bank account isn't going to enjoy this week :(
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