Recent content by JayGrimm

After meeting with some roofing people, I'm beginning to have a change of heart on a metal roof. One roofer who came to inspect my roof suggested an asphalt roof replacement (lifetime shingles). They would strip off the entire roof, install ice & water shield up the entire back side of the roof...

I want to thank everyone for taking the time to comment, and I will comment when I am able to as I have my hands filled with many other things right now. I pretty much figured I would not need gutters with metal roofing. I see several instances of metal roofs around town where the gutters are...

My house is a cape (I live in the Northeast) with a roof that has chronic problems during winter with ice dam formation and resulting leaks. The roof has no soffit venting, and with no overhang (bottom of roof is almost flush with the side of the house), it would need something like SmartVent...

About the only thing I could think of to do last winter for the ventilation issue is to connect the bathroom ceiling fan to a window via a hose and blow outside air into the crawl space to keep the temperature there as low as I could. Crude I suppose, but thought it was worth a try. I still had...

Thank you for both your quick reply. I do have rooms upstairs as well as crawl spaces. The water seepage is in these crawl spaces. I uploaded a diagram to the site for clarification. http://www.houserepairtalk.com/photo/roofupper-floor-1085.html I have tried to deal with the issue of...

Hi, am looking for suggestions to my problem. My house is a typical New England cape with a steep roof incline (about 45°). I had a new roof installed 5 years ago. It was not laid down over the old roof, it was stripped off completely first. During last couple winters, I had issues with water...