Three Causes of Roof Leaks
Three Causes of Roof Leaks - Leaks in the roof is a classic problem with the cause of the “it-it” too. Water entering from the horizontal gutters, too sloping roof, or water enters the gutter.
In order for roof leaks do not create a headache, you should seek the source of the problem and addressed immediately. Consider the following tips as your guide to do it:
Water from the gutters into the horizontal
Basically this happens because the outside of the gutter lip higher than the bottom end of the roof tiles. These conditions can cause the water flowing in the gutters do not overflow to the bottom, but pushed back in and cause leaks in the roof of the house.
To overcome this, repeat the installation of gutters and make sure the gutters outer lip is lower than the critical edge. In addition, make sure the vertical pipe that serves the water drain down stretches no more than three meters.
Too sloping roof
That is too sloping roof made rain water to flow more slowly. On the roof made of tiles, overlapping or width of each stack of gravity is very small (2-5 inches) so the potential for water entering the house bigger. Moreover, if there are strong winds that blow water into the house.
To overcome the leakage caused by too sloping roof, the first way to do this is to replace the roof with a sheet material such as metal, bitumen, or fiber cement.
Sheet material is generally fitted with a wide overlap or larger pile until it reaches 20 centimeters. Therefore, the potential entry of rain water through a fine between sheets became smaller.
However, materials such as fiber cement sheets tend to be noisy when exposed to rain. Because it required the addition of damping material such as rockwool or Glasswool.
The second way, you can change the slope of the roof. This method takes time, effort, and cost more. The ideal roof slope is between 30-40 degrees so that water can flow smoothly. If it is too steep, it will be easily slipped tiles.
One important thing, when doing dismantling the roof, you should add insulation in the form of a spread sheet of aluminum foil and clamped in between the wood rafters and battens. This insulation serves to prevent rain water does not drip directly into the ceiling. In addition, the insulation also serves lower the temperature in the room.
Incoming water from the gutters
This problem is usually caused by the overlap between the lip or the width of the pile with a roof gutters are too small, so that water dripping from the roof did not entirely fall into the gutter, but went into the house. To fix this, replace gutters with new gutters that can reach as wide as possible.
With greater overlap, rain water will completely fall into the gutter and does not drip into the house. In addition, gutters made of zinc or metal having the possibility of rust and holes that can reduce quality.
After replacing the gutters, seal with galvanized paint that reduces the corrosive nature of the gutters. Paint coated galvanized gutters are free from rust for up to five years.
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