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Hi everyone, thanks for your thoughts and comments about my leaky roof. To try to summarize, it sounds like there are three different problems here: 1. Lack of/inadequate venting 2. The roof itself- no flashing 3. Lack of/inadequate insulation From what was written here, it also sounds...

One of the roofers that came to remove the ice dams saw no flashing.

Guys, Thanks for your thoughts on this. I know it's going to be a big pain in the bank account but I want to make sure this gets fixed and fixed right. A factor that I hadn't considered until roof/attic insulation was brought up was the complicated situation in our attic space. 1. The...

Thanks for the thoughts, Neal. We know that the insulation isn't great in this house. In fact, we had some blown in to the two bedrooms on the east side, notably around the dormer that had a MASSIVE dam build up. With a mansard-style roof, and the lower portion with the high pitch, is it...

Thanks for the welcome, ODNT. I wasn't clear about the order of purchasing/repairs- we bought the house from the contractor that flipped it. He was also responsible for the roof 'replacement'. While he is a contractor, he seems to have been a bit lazy in the renovations. The ice dams were...

I have a mansard victorian in a suburb north of Boston that was originally built in the mid-1860s. The house had been foreclosed, purchased by a contractor, *gulp* 'flipped', and then we bought in in August 2012. With the massive amounts of snow we've gotten, we've developed nasty ice dams...