New Roof and New Skylights for Home in Alexander NC
This house was definitely in need of a new roof, skylights, and gutters. The homeowners are great stewards of their homes. They just finished remodeling the inside of this house and painted the outside along with a new roof, skylights, and coming soon, new gutters. This doesn’t just look like a new home, but it is with all the work the homeowners have done to it.
Our excellent crew is working hard to get the shingles off the roof and into the dumpster.
As you can see, the old roof is an old three-tab shingle worn out like pipe boots. The rubber on the pipe boots is even dry rotted and cracking.
In this beautiful picture, we installed a beautiful Owens corning estate grey dimensional shingle with brand new pipe boots on all 5 pipes. Yes, that's correct. I said 5 pipes. Not all of them are in this picture, but they all got new pipe boots. This is standard on any roof we do!
Here is a close-up of a pipe boot
If your skylights are over ten years old and you are replacing your roof, it’s also an excellent idea to replace them. As you can see, these turned out great, and the homeowner loved them. You can see in this picture the old skylights are slightly fogged up. This is due to the airtight seal breaking and letting moisture in between the 2 layers of glass.
As you can see, these 3 new skylights turned out great, and the homeowners love them. Velux makes a fantastic skylight system. When using the correct flash kits, they are seriously leakproof!
So initially, the shingles went underneath the metal porch roof, and the previous roofer used sealant to make it waterproof. Well, that didn’t work. The owner said it leaked ever since he added the porch roof.
We thought about using a rubber membrane but decided against it as using a large section of valley metal would have a much higher likelihood of leaking. Here is the area of metal we had bent. We put a 2-inch rise in the middle instead of the standard 1-inch rise, and we made each side 16 inches wide with a 1/2 inch open hem. My metal guy said it is the giant valley metal he’s ever made.
Here is what it looked like after we pulled up the metal panels to cut them. You can see the old roof shingles go under the porch roof's wood.
Here is what it looked like after we installed it. We marked the metal panels, popped a straight line on them, and then took off the metal roofing panels and cut 4 inches off them. Laid the valley metal down and sealed each side. Then we laid the shingles and the metal panels down on top of the valley metal.
The chimney flashing was custom bent for the roof's pitch, and it turned out great. Read picture
Here is one more picture of the excellent flashing job from the right side. All the fasteners have been covered in sealant as well as the top.
Most standard or architectural/dimensional shingles are supposed to be on a 6-inch stagger. This is a perfect example.
