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How To Fix A Leaky Roof Yourself

Last week was shaping up to be pretty good week. Sherry celebrated turning 30. We declared the kitchen done(-ish). Spring was in such full bloom it was practically summer. In fact, we even got a pretty awesome thunderstorm one night. Seriously it rained buckets. Faster and harder than we had ever seen since moving into our new house. And then around midnight, it happened…

Leak 2 Drip On Beam

We were watching some TV when we heard a sudden, loud rushing sound. Like someone dumped a gallon of milk on the floor in the kitchen. Our first instinct was that the new-ish-ly installed dishwasher was leaking, so we both dashed towards the kitchen – only to stop in our tracks when a stream of water hit us from above before even entering the kitchen. It was coming from one of the beams in the living room. And then we noticed a pretty steady stream coming out of a nearby wall too. Crap.

Leak 3 Crying Wall

It all happened so fast. We scrambled to grab a bucket to catch the water streaming out of the beam and stuffed a big ol’ towel at the base of the wall that was dripping. Since it was still pouring outside (with a fair amount of thunder and lightning), our only plan of attack was to go into the attic to see what was up (since going outside with a big metal flashlight or ladder sounded like a really bad idea). So I crawled up into the attic with a flashlight and my iPhone (so I could document the damage for Sherry by snapping a picture) while Sherry stood in the living room and tapped on the beam so I could orient myself in the attic and follow the sound. Sure enough, I found a general area where water seemed to be seeping into the house. Did I say “crap” already? If so, here it is again. Crap. It was so bad that Sherry came up into the attic with me and we both just sort of crouched there staring at it.

Leak 4 Attick Wet

The area was too narrow for me or Sherry to get into (there’s no flooring in that area) and since things were starting to dry up outside (thank goodness!), we decided to call it a night. At this point it was around 1:30 in the morning, and we figured that in the am the roof would hopefully be dry enough for us to get up there and see what was going on (you know, without getting hit by lightning). The stream from the wall had stopped and we left a bucket out to catch anything else that decided to drip from the beam – but that had pretty much stopped too since the storm had finally passed.

Leak 5 Bucket

As if this weren’t bad enough on its own, it had now gotten too late to finish our DVR-ed episode of Dancing With The Stars. Tragic, we know. Watching Urkel strut his stuff would just have to wait.

Leak 1 DWTS On TV

The next day was sunny and hot, so we figured the roof would have dried by the time Clara was down for her nap that afternoon, which was the first moment of the day that we both could tackle the roof thing together. First we headed back into the attic to see if the spot had dried up. Yup, it mostly had.

Leak 6 Attic Dry Check

Next I went up on top of the house to try to identify whatever was causing our leak while Sherry “Afraid Of Heights” Petersik watched from the ladder. I sort of half hoped for / half feared finding a big gaping hole. At least then I would know what needed fixing. Oh and it bears mentioning that this roof (a 30-year asphalt shingle one) was installed the spring before the previous owners sold us this house, so it’s only a few years old.

Leak 8 Roof

And yes, we do have quite the smorgasbord of rooflines. In case you’re totally disoriented, here’s roughly how this lines up with the floor plan below (note the chimney, which connects to our fireplace which is between the kitchen and living room – that’s usually what I use to orient myself).

Leak 8 Roof With Labels

When I headed to the area above the leak, it was pretty obvious that I was looking at the culprit. Not a big hole, just a big ol’ pile of leaves.

Leak 9 Leaves On Roof

I try to keep the roof pretty clear of sticks and leaves, but I guess this pile had collected since I was last on the roof in the fall. And since it’s completely invisible from the ground, I had no clue this troublemaker was lurking up here. So after a few sweeps of the rake, the leaf collection was no more.

Leak 10 Wet Spot From Leave

How does a pile of leaves cause a leak? It wasn’t so obvious to me at first, but having googled “find source of leaky roof” a bit the night before, I had a better idea. Shingles are overlapped in a way to allow rain to flow down over them. But when water flows up them, or rather builds up around them (like if there’s a leaf dam preventing water from moving off the roof quickly enough), it can seep under them and find its way into nail holes or other less waterproof surfaces. And you can see from the wet mark above just how high the water had built up. It must have finally found a way in, and swoosh, down it came, into the attic and the living room below.

Leak 11 Lifting Shingle

I couldn’t be 100% sure that clearing the leaves would solve our problem, but I was pretty darn hopeful. Hopeful enough that I was even able to enjoy being on a roof a bit. Why yes I did tell Sherry to go into the sunroom and look up at one point. Skylights = a rip roaring good time.

Leak 12 John In Skylight

We got to test our repair theory when we got a lot of rain over the course of a few storms that came through Richmond in the last week since the leak. It rained for hours on more than one occasion. And we were actually happy about it for once since it meant that we could test Operation Leaf Removal to make sure we had truly solved the issue.

Leak 13 Raining Again

After we survived about 5 hours of rain in the first of two storms, we decided it was time to check the attic to see if perhaps the water just hadn’t made its way into our living room yet (but was stealthily building up in the attic or something). Thankfully the attic looked totally dry. Victory!

Leak 14 Dry In Attic

And we had the same luck with the second big rainstorm (once again we checked the attic, and it was nice and dry). So for the time being, we’re considering the problem officially solved – and thanking our lucky stars that the leak didn’t ruin anything in our house, and didn’t cost anything to fix. And now we’ve learned our lesson about letting so many months go buy without checking the roof for leaf build up since there are some spots that we can’t see from the ground – and apparently leaves can be sneaky little buggers. We’re mainly just beyond grateful that the leak didn’t happen while we were in Hawaii. We can’t imagine coming home to a living room full of water.

Who else has a leaky roof story to tell? Was yours easy fix? Did it do more damage? Did you catch it just in time? Did you think your dishwasher was leaking at first? Any tips to pass around to the group about preventing, finding, or fixing leaks would be much appreciated – especially since we felt so inexperienced and unprepared this time around!

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  1. Ainhoa@ALittleBite says

    Oh no! At least you were able to fix it, but it must have been scary.
    I woke up one day and found our bathroom flooded – we live in an apartment and the upstairs neighbor had a leak. We then proceeded to live with a hole in our ceiling for a few months while the insurance company tried to find the leak (to no avail). We no longer have a hole, but since they couldn’t find the leak I’m worried our bathroom will flood again!

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  2. maria says

    are you guys worried about mold growing? they always say where ever there is water that seeped behind walls or the ceiling mold might grow there. I only wonder because i have a leak in my apartment from an old covered air conditioner box and i am worried that there is mold behind the walls and under the floors. Hope everything is OK with your roof now!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Hmm, good question! I think since it was just a one-time thing that lasted for about an hour, it all seems to have dried up so we hope we’re ok (mold likes constantly moist places, like walls in a bathroom where water collects regularly, so I don’t think it would like a spot where there was just a small leak once). But we’ll definitely have to keep an eye out for it just in case!

      xo,
      s

    • CrysHouse says

      If you’re afraid of the possibility of mold, just spritz those areas with white vinegar and let it dry. That will take care of the problem with any issues :)

    • Gem says

      I would definitely agree with doing whatever you can to prevent mould. It may not build up but my bathroom is testament to the fact that mould is fast and sneaky and definitely refuses to leave once it’s got in…

    • Heather W. says

      We had a roof leak too and got it fixed right away. Our roofers told us that either bleach or primer you used KILZ would also take care of it too.

  4. Chelsea says

    Oh man! Good catch you guys! We discovered that there HAD been a leaky roof at one point in the house we bought when we tore down all of the wood paneling in the dining room to discover mold and disintegrated drywall (http://ridingescalators.blogspot.com/2012/03/project-dining-room-fast-forward.html). That was actually our first home improvement project too – so it was probably a little more scary than it should have been! But still – yuck! That was also when I had to learn how to do my first drywall patch! lol Glad it looks like your leak isn’t going to come to that!

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  8. Vidya @ Whats Ur Home Story says

    Phew! Glad that it was such an easy fix. Roof leaks are always scary to me. I would have freaked out. Back in the day, when we were renting after we came home from a shopping trip we found the ceiling over our kitchen light wet. And as we were staring at it in the disbelief the light just dropped on the floor and a stream of water came gushing down! It seems the dishwasher in the unit above us was leaking!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Thankfully since it was just a one-time thing that lasted for about an hour, it all seems to have dried up so we hope we’re ok (mold likes constantly moist places, like walls in a bathroom where water collects regularly, so I don’t think it would like a spot where there was just a small leak once). But we’ll definitely have to keep an eye out for it just in case! Someone recommended spraying the wall and beam with vinegar and letting that dry which makes things even more unappealing to mold so I’ll definitely do that today just to be safe!
      xo,
      s

  11. Brenda says

    So happy it was simple fix! I was really worried this was going to turn into a “now we have a huge hole in the roof” story.

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  12. Tamisha says

    Ugh, the house we bought was leaking when we toured it…and by leaking I mean pouring down rain INSIDE! Took us two full years to fix it but it is now finally fixed! The terrace drain had been blocked up and during the very rainy spring, we had water overflowing into the upstairs bedroom which caused the flood. What a headache!

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  13. Katy says

    Hey guys! Glad you got it fixed. Are you worried about the electrics at all? I was concerned when I saw the water seeming to pour out from under the light switches… I had no idea of the leaf-on-roof-problem! I’m going to send the hubby up on a sky-high-exploratory-expedition tonight!

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      We were worried about electrical stuff initially, but the rushing sound of all the water dumping down the wall didn’t short anything out when it all washed through, so we hoped we were ok. We opted to keep the electricity on so we could see what was happening (we worried the ceiling would collapse or the beam would fall or something in the dark). Of course we didn’t touch the light switches or anything while they were wet!

      xo
      s

    • Martha says

      This is why my husband insisted that the house we are building will have no extraneous peaks. In snow country, ice dams are more frequently the cause than leaves. The water freezes as it hits the gutter and then it backs up under the shingles.

  15. Samantha says

    Have y’all considered a green roof? Planting a bunch of sedums up there would absorb rain water, trap heat, and cool of the house in the summer. It’s expensive, sure, but like most “green” designs, it pays for itself over time.

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      Oh yes, we would love one. Sometimes they call for reinforcing the entire structure of a house to hold the added weight (we wanted one just over our last house’s sunroom since it was a flat roof and it would have been 10K to reinforce it to handle the weight so we opted out). Would definitely be fun if the cost came down over time (you know, if they’re like DVD players which got cheaper over time, haha).

      xo,
      s

  16. Monika says

    We had just put in new hardwood floors only to find a puddle on the floor next to the newly re-installed pedestal sink in the powder room. The wood is a little warped (big boo) but we still have the sink to fix and we are no plumbers. Not sure if using teflon tape would solve the problem on the connections? And thanks for the tips with the leaves, you guys will save someone lots of stress for sure with this tid bit.

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  17. Louisa T. says

    Just last week around 11:30p one night our youngest son had gone to the basement and came running back up shouting water is going everywhere (clearly not a roof story, but a leak just the same). My husband and I went running down and sure enough, we had a freaking geiser coming from a pipe overhead. Our dishwasher is only a few months old and this was my first guess. Cut all the water in the kitchen off since that was directly above the “fountain” and called the plumber the next morning. Turned out the drain line for the kitchen sink was clogged and it had found it’s ‘path of least resistance’. $400 later it was all fixed and a valuable lesson was leaned. Don’t pour grease down the kitchen drain (I know, I know, DUH)! So glad your’s was such an easy fix. If only ALL of them were like that, right?

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  18. Steph@Steph's Stuff says

    We had lightening hit our chimney once and it cracked the stone around the chimney – which led to a lot of water all over the walls and floor in the morning. :( That’s when you’re grateful for all those insurance payments you make! I hope yours really was such an easy fix – with roof lines that meet like that, it’s going to take watching for leaves more often, isn’t it? :)

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  20. Mandy says

    Not a leaky roof, but leaky pipes. I’ll try to make this short and sweet. The house we live in has PVC piping throughout, thanks to lovely neighborhood kids who stole all the copper plumbing while the house was in transition from renter to owner and metals were really high. My husband and I were on a cruise, and my sister was house/pet sitting.

    Thankfully, she was still awake at 2am, watching TV in the living room, and decided to go up to bed. She turned everything out, got into bed, and heard noises and what sounded like possibly water running. She walked into the hallway, near the bathroom, and stepped in water!! Apparently, the pipe wasn’t tightened enough, so it leaked from under the sink, covered the bathroom floor, and over the transition into the hallway!!

    She called our mom, frantic (who of course at 2am getting a frantic call from her youngest sent her almost into a panic attack until she realized it was only a leaky pipe) and luckily she only had to turn the water off to the sink to stop the leak. We came home a few days later to my dad being there, just finishing up fixing the problem.

    Our mom had told her (since we called every day from land to check in and make sure everything was ok) not to say anything while we were gone, since it was being fixed, and nothing could be done from our end.

    I cant even fathom how bad our house would have flooded had she not been awake, or been at work, when that happened. I don’t know how many times I thanked her for staying up late that night, and saving our house!

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  21. Kaytie @ GardenKitchenHome says

    Don’t let him give you a hard time about being afraid of heights, $herdog! I just climbed the Inca Trail last week, and I discovered I’m TERRIFIED of heights. (Admittedly, not a good place to make such a discovery…)

    My vote is that you stay safe with the baby, with two feet on the level ground. Let the crazy one in the family climb up high on top of roofs and mountains to clean out leaves!

    Glad it was an easy fix :)

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  22. Whitney Dupuis says

    Wow! You guys are so lucky it was an easy fix! That could have been really disheartening to use your hard-earned book moolah on a new (or patched) roof! Good job getting on it so fast too. :)

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  23. Dona says

    Does a leaky slab count….? That’s been the bane of my existence these past few weeks. It involved demolishing the slab and dumping my less-than-a-year old flooring into the trash. Fortunately, it was contained to the laundry room. Yes, I can count my blessings. :)

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  24. Amanda K says

    Oh gosh, this post bring back unpleasant memories. We had our roof replaced about 3 years ago. The shingle removal took longer than the contractor planned because there were 5 layers of shingles! The night the roof was finally shingle-less, I woke up around 2am to the sound of pouring rain. I woke up my husband and he ran to the attic in sandals and underwear (quite a vision). At first there was only 1 drip and then all of sudden, there were 100. I ran around the house looking for wet spots on the ceiling while he threw bats of insulation around to act like a sponge. Luckily, we didn’t end of having to replace any sheet rock…a little scraping and painting did the trick, but it was quite an adventure!

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  25. Michelle says

    We just bought our first house in Sept ’11 and are learning so much from you two! Now I’m going to be on the lookout for leaves on our roof.

    We tested for radon because of your posts on it and negotiated a full radon mitigation system paid by the sellers before we closed…all thanks to you! Would have never thought to look into it otherwise (coming from an apartment in the city). So thankful to learn from you, keep it up!

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  26. Jess! says

    Whoa. I had the same thing happen last fall – new-ish roof, accumulation of leaves along a concave roofline… The damage was more extensive inside the house (I’ll need some new drywall on the ceiling where the leak happened), and the reason behind it was actually shingles that hadn’t been properly overlapped when installed.

    We had a mild winter, with not too much snow, so I’m getting it fixed in the spring, and fixing the drywall in the living room when I knock out a section of a wall. Renos-mageddon!

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  27. Rachel says

    I woke up one evening during a rainstorm to constant dripping (and was even dreaming of leaky facets!) around 3 AM and found a small leak coming from one of the beams in our bedroom. Leaves were the culprit for this one as well. A quick brushing of the leaves off the roof, and we haven’t had any trouble since! Good luck!

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  28. Allyn says

    My heart started racing I was saying crap in sympathy! One of my old apartments used to leak (a LOT) when we had big storms around the doors to the balcony, and it was horrible. We had designated leak beach towels.
    However, it didn’t make me love thunderstorms any less. In fact, I love them so much that when my now husband took me to watch lightning from a big bridge on our first date, I knew he was the one. We’ve all got our things.

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  29. Nora says

    When I lived at my parents house, I was standing in the basement when water started flooding through the ceiling. I ran upstairs and found the toilet overflowing and a small lake in the bathroom. I shut off the water, and later I was “lucky” enough to help my dad rod the pipe. That was pretty gross.

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  30. erica says

    Not fun, but glad it wasn’t toooo major and didn’t happen while you were going to be gone for awhile… We have a spot that we are waiting for a good rain to test out our repair. Until I’m confident, a big plastic tub lives in the middle of our living room because we have new hardwood floors! Ours is *probably* coming thru a gap in the siding on our dormer. Fingers crossed that it’s fixed…

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  31. Vanessa says

    So glad it worked out and wasn’t any major to repair. Trust me I know from experience how bad it feels when you see that trickle of water :(

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  33. Michelle B. (@The236) says

    Nothing like a leaky roof to rain on your parade!

    Five years ago, when we bought my in-law’s home, we suffered with a leaky roof. It was awful. The worst was being at work and seeing it rain – being an hour away from home, I would panic and think, “Oh, no! The buckets aren’t out!” More times than I would like to admit, we would come home to puddles inside our house. It was horrible…..especially when the leaks were coming through our light fixtures. Uhhh….scary!

    That spring, we replaced the roof. Speak about peace of mind! Now when we are at work and it rains, I don’t panic anymore. We hope to get 25-30 years out of this roof. Fingers crossed!

    Glad your roof leak was an easy and free fix!

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  34. Cporoski says

    That is crazy. We once had our upstairs bathroom create a 3 foot bubble in our ceiling. It was a small hole but we needed to pop it into a bucket. It was almost 3 gallons of water! oh, the pleasures of home ownership :)

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  35. Sarah says

    Man you guys are LUCKY!! We haven’t had roof issues (knock on wood) but our washer and dryer are in the basement and the washer pipe runs into the sink down there with a lint trap attached to the end. We have to remember to change that trap frequently because we’ve had a few instances where our basement flooded because the water couldn’t get through the holes and sprayed everywhere! Emergency home issues are scary though, I’m glad you guys were able to solve it so quickly and easily.

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  36. Pam the Goatherd says

    I’m glad to hear your leak was such an easy fix. That had to be really scary to have water coming through the outlet like that!!!

    The only leaky roof I’ve ever dealt with was after a small tornado went through my Miami neighborhood. We had Spanish tile that got lifted and shifted slightly. Didn’t know anything had happened until a few months later I realized the closet in our spare bedroom/home office was getting mildewed. Trying to file a claim with the insurance company so long past the storm was impossible, so we patched the roof with sealant as best we could. That worked until Hurricane Andrew hit. Every other house on our block got a new roof, but our insurance company insisted that our roof should just be patched again. We changed insurance companies after that, but because the hurricane damage happened before the switch we still couldn’t get a new roof. We moved a couple of years later so I don’t know if the new owners had any more problems or if they ever put a new roof on.

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  37. Lindsey says

    thank you for sharing this. we all have “oh crap” moments with our house and it is nice to know the perfect petersiks do too! :) it is also a great reminder that not all situations like this are cause for a budget-breaking repair, but rather a little elbow grease is all the treatment needed.

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  38. Liz says

    AH! So glad it was an easy fix! As a new homeowner, water in places where it’s not supposed to be is one of my biggest fears! The house I grew up in totally flooded when I was little and it was such a major problem, so I’m probably a little more fearful than I should be. But roofs are expensive!

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  39. Ashley says

    Good luck during the Monument Ave 10k tomorrow John! It looks like it is going to be a beautiful day for running with the rain holding off until after lunch (hopefully no leaky roof).

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  40. Sherri says

    Did you kill the lights/electricity? I’m just thinking water+electricity=bad news.

    Or, is that over-cautious?

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    • YoungHouseLove says

      We were worried about that too, but the rushing sound of all the water dumping down the wall didn’t short anything out when it all washed through, so we hoped we were ok. We opted to keep the electricity on so we could see what was happening (we worried the ceiling would collapse or the beam would fall or something in the dark). Of course we didn’t touch the light switches or anything while they were wet!

      xo,
      s

  42. Stephanie says

    Very glad it wasn’t bad. We had a drip from the roof one time, but it was just some separation of the roof from the flashing on a chimney vent on our roof. No big deal compared to the 6 or 7 times the basement sewer drain has backed up in the last 13 years and the one time a pipe broke in the basement. Yes, our basement is cursed by something!

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  43. Nicole says

    Ok picture this…it’s is the day of your daughters first birthday (January 2011) and water starts leaking in 5 of the 8 rooms in your house! Yikes! Well if you lived in New England like we do it was a normal occurrence at the time because we were experiencing record breaking snow storms and this Saturday was the first warm-er day so snow was starting to melt. To make a long story short…the water kept coming….when all was said and done we learned that our roof was so old that it didn’t have the proper, and now required by law, ice shield under the shingles. Fast forward to today….there was so much damage and multiple contractors kept putting us off due to families that were worse off, then we had a tornado in the area…blah blah blah…Today we have a brand new kitchen with granite counter tops and almost every room was repainted courtesy of our insurance company. It took a year of struggle but it was worth it and now I have a dream kitchen! That’s our roof nightmare.
    On another note….our nugget, Mya just turned 2 and she is spunky like Clara…total ball of happiness. Keep up the great parenting and clever DIY!

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    • Laura says

      Hey neighbor. We just moved to our “new” house the last weekend of Jan’11. I remember exactly which weekend you are referring to. Little did we know then the purpose of the snow rake the previously owners left behind for us. Needless to say, we installed the heated roof wiring the next fall. I wish I would have gotten a new kitchen out of it! We still have our orginal 1960’s cabinets.

      Laura
      cookiecrumbsandsawdust.blogspot.com

  44. A Kurtz says

    That same thing happened to us with our roof during the winter of 2010 when we had all the snow in DC. The snow and ice backed up due to leaves as it was melting and came down through the attic and into my closet, but was absorbed by my sweaters…not cool.
    BTW – those storms were crazy last week. We were in Charlottesville and had a lightening strike close enough to the house that it fried the computer in our Mini Cooper. Try calling the insurance to report the accident, “uh, my car got struck by lightening…I think”. Glad you got the roof issue figured out!

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    • Amy says

      My grandfather once had to call his insurance company to tell them is car got hit by a longhorn sheep. As in the sheep ran into his car, he didn’t hit it. He was living in Montana, but the insurance company was in suburban Columbus, Ohio. They kept thinking he ran off the road into a farm or something!

    • YoungHouseLove says

      No way! My science teacher in high school had a deer jump into his car (it went through the front window). Poor guy got hurt but was ok. When he came back to school we all were asking “Wait, a deer hit you? You’re sure you didn’t hit a deer?”

      xo,
      s

  45. Meredith says

    Well, this isn’t a leak story, but when I was in high school we had gotten torrential rains, resulting in flooding. Our house was high-ish, so not directly in the flood plain, but we’d gotten enough rain that water was starting to back up out of the drain. Enough backed up that it formed a puddle. Some clothes in the laundry room were near the puddle and wound up blocking the drain, resulting in 6 inches of water in the basement. I was headed downstairs for morning swim practice, wasn’t looking, and was suddenly ankle-deep in water in the basement. That was fun to clean up! (Although it certainly served as future inspiration to keep a tidy basement).

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  46. Linda M-S says

    I guess it was the warm water version of an “ice dam” on a roof – I unfortunately experienced that a few years ago but was out on a ladder with a hair dryer trying to break up the ice that was causing the water to back up on the ceiling of my family room. Glad it was not a major repair!! Roofs repair provides me with no instant gratification or joy at spending the $$!

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  47. Emiles says

    Your roof will give me nightmares! I’m a lawyer by day and my brother is a teacher, but prior to teaching he worked construction and still does in the summer. He ends up doing a few roofs every year, and I get roped into it. The number of valleys on your roof would have me walking off the job! Glad you didn’t have more of an issue (my highly novice eyes say that’s a pretty darn good job on the valley you showed though!)…and I agree with other posters, watch for mold!

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  48. Laura@JourneyChic says

    We got a major leak in our master bath ceiling last year (ack, still need to repaint the stain!), and since we’re in a flat-roofed 3-story townhouse we had to call in the professionals with a huge ladder to check it out. They didn’t find any obvious damage and it’s never happened again, so now I wonder if leaves were the culprit!

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  49. bekah says

    haha Ive got a doozy of a water damage story for you, but honestly? Its depressing and way too long for a comment, so I’ll just say – SO glad this turned out well for you guys!

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  50. Helene says

    We had a similar problem with ice last winter. The water in our gutters froze and created an ice dam. The water then flowed up and under the shingles and created a really huge problem in our kitchen.

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