How To Repair Roof Valley Leak

Step 2 remove the shingles.

How to repair roof valley leak. Many roof valley leaks are caused by roofing nails that have been poorly. Move to the highest end of the valley and work your way down cleaning. A properly flashed roof valley should have an ice and water shield installed with roofing felt being properly secured over the ice and water. How to repair a lead valley.

The right thing to do here is to pull a valley basically pull a valley apart and rebuild it. And you can tar it but it s a real stop gap band aid like measure. Step 4 replace the shingles. Take measurements of your roof flashing most flashing is 14 inches wide but yours may vary.

Find the place where that leak is coming from. This video shows the traditional and best way to repair a lead valley on a roof. And that s what we ve done here montgomery s old cloverdale neighborhood. Insert the bar under a shingle and pry upward at a.

The best way to find and stop the roof leak is to start over and roof the valley the right way. Then installed a layer of gaf storm guard underlayment and 20 valley flashing. Clear any debris in the roof valley and surrounding area. Start at the upper row of shingles at the upper end of the valley.

Remove 8 inches of shingles at each side of the valley with a 16 inch nail bar. This method of lead valley repair is proven to not only be fast and safe wit. Step 3 lay the flashing. 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.

We removed all old roofing material down to the original wood deck.