We have had a persistent leak on the screen porch since we moved in. Honestly it must have never bugged us enough to fix it...until we decided to sell the house. Knowing a new buyer maybe wouldn't be as tolerant as we were, we decided to bite the bullet and get it fixed.
Turns out the fascia board the screen roof attaches to was rotted in the corner by the chimney. Despite our layers of roof tar, extra flashing and other water diverting attempts, nothing was going to keep some water from getting inbetween the rotted wood and the inside porch! Luckily the damage was limited to just the fascia board and not the roof rafters!
The two guys from the screen company had it all pulled out and ready to reroof in about 3 hours, then putting the new roof panels and gutters on took another couple of hours. We also had them rescreen one of the sections where Bonnie Dog had scratched the heck out of the screen...we must have forgotten to let her in one day!
We did have one little incident--one of the guys dropped a pry bar when he was on the ladder. It of course found it's way into the house! This was one of the nicer days luckily, so we just pulled the broken glass out, taped some freezer paper up and waited for Rod to bring home the glass. Oh boy ANOTHER project! LOL
Here's the finished project--oh, almost. It doesn't show the new gutters and downspouts.
The new roof from the inside is so bright and shiny, you almost have to have sunglasses on!! We have had two good rainfalls since they put it up and all is tight and dry. Yippee!! Since we moved out the old refrigerator, the porch seems big and the nice table and chairs we have out there look really nice.
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