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Oldog, Thanks again for the input. It's about time for a new roof so I've been expecting it...just putting it off as long as possible and trying to maintain in the meantime. What should be up there? Is the asphalt wearing back too far away from the edge of the trim? I'm just curious as to what...

Here are some photos from the top angle. It's a pea pebble flat roof with asphalt that is spread out to the edges. There is a lip there that I assume is to route all of the water to the back gutter. The only place where water drips is where the seams meet. Several places around the exterior...

oldog, I will definitely get up there and get a shot of it tomorrow. I appreciate your suggestions for the gutter. When I'm up there tomorrow, I'm going to take some steel wool and clean the gutter seam up really well and get some gutter caulk on there and see if that remedies the gutter issue.

Hello, everyone. I was on here a few months ago and got some brilliant advice for exposed beams that were starting to deteriorate. So I'm back with another question, unfortunately. When I first purchased my house and would tell people that it has a flat roof, I would get looks of sympathy and...

Nestor, Thanks a MILLION for the informative, very thorough explanation. I truly learned a lot about what's going on and what to do about it. I've taken some vacation time to spend solely on catching this stuff where it is so your links and suggestions are INVALUABLE to me, as I'm a new home...

thanks for the quick response, inspectorD. Can you suggest a product or process for filling in surface cracks that have already occured? Before I paint and seal them? I probably won't go the aluminum route just because they've been uncovered since 1969 and have fared fairly well until I...

Hi everyone. I'm new to the forum and came in search of some advice. I bought a flat roof house about 3 years ago. It's from 1969 and has a style fairly typical of the modern era...there is a host of these beams that run through the home and extend out, thus making them very susceptible to...