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Related: About this forumWeird problem with roof leak. It leaks when there is no rain. Fixed!
Last edited Thu May 19, 2022, 09:31 AM - Edit history (1)
I have a cathedral ceiling, no attic, no appliances nearby. It only leaks every few days.
Fixed.
The roofer added vents to combat excessive moisture.
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(14,941 posts)alfredo
(60,146 posts)Blue Owl
(54,915 posts)Ive had ice dams before that bring melted water in through the ceiling .
SWBTATTReg
(24,332 posts)moisture thru the air (thus the roofing has expanding, blocking access for the water).
When there's no moisture/rain, the roofing 'wood panels' shrink a little thus allowing water to pass ... so this shows (1) don't have enough tar paper on the top surface (underneath the actual shingles, whatever you have on your roof) (2) I am surprised that you have that much 'give and take' on roof shrinkage. I wouldn't normally expect that much of a movement.
Maybe a humidifier too, to put more moisture into the air inside the home?
I remember when I had a leak, and it wasn't the roof, it was the moisture actually seeped through the mortar of my bricks in the home.
So a good tuckpointing job did the trick as well as waterproofing it afterwards.
alfredo
(60,146 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,990 posts)taxi
(2,014 posts)I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go
Phoenix61
(17,723 posts)Drove me nuts because the drip was at an a/c register about 7 feet down slope from the vent pipe. My gutter guy recommended Geocel ProFlex. Stuffs amazing. It held up to Hurricane Michael and that was several years after I had applied it.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,990 posts)Kali
(55,876 posts)quakerboy
(14,197 posts)But..
I had a pipe leaking.. but at unpredictable moments.. and never when i was actually using water or when it was raining.
Turned out it was a drain pipe from an upstairs bathtub.. But a previous renovator had noted what I assume was at the time a tiny drip.. and had placed a small plastic wastebasket below it, inside the wall. Over the course of a decade or two.. the leak slowly increased.. but it only became apparent when the water was enough to fill the basket and overflow. And that would evaporate out at different rates.
All of which made for a lot of confusion about how, what and why it was happening until the wall was opened up.