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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

large water leak over hallway

Property manager called us with a problem.
It goes without saying. We had to act quickly since rains were expected overnight.

We found a very old and deteriorated flat roof above the end of the hallway

A solution to the problem was decided immediately.
No patches!

A permanent solution.modified bitumen will be torched down over the existing .this happened to be the original roof,only one thin layer of asphalt and tar paper.

Small roof but it hold a a lot of water
The only drain,its the scupper box,located on the corner.
Quite a few small "boxes" or curbs these had to be flashed also to complete the job.time was of the essence.
Since heavy rains were expected overnight

The flashing on the wall its wide open and a downspout from a high roof dumps water on the left (we moved it to have acces to the wall)

Small roof,but time consuming with all the detail work.
New modified has been applied 

New roof its been applied,watertight tonight.
A permanent solution to a long postponed problem.
Property managers dont forget to call us and homeowners as well.

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