Note the overlap of shingles on the ridge. Today we would cover the ridge with cut flaps from asphalt shingles or with metal flashing. I wonder how modern ...

So will pressure washing your asphalt shingles! Round -up will not kill moss...something to do with being the first land plant. A bleach solution will but ...

Like most of you I had damage to my house after the two days of 50 mph gusts. The 5 by 11.5 inch tabs on a couple dozen shingles ripped off and flew everywh...

Perma-boots come in different sizes depending on the size of the vent pipes. These can also easily extend the height of existing pipes if the pipe cover exte...

Water is the main enemy of your house. When water gets into a chimney it degrades the masonry all the way down, including the firebox. Covering the opening...

Here is drip edge flashing over the eave. If you have a gutter, the bottom edge would go over the gutter so that water couldn't duck behind the gutter and ro...

Good air, good light: really makes a difference. These are vent ducts leading up from the two bathroom fans in the upper floor bathrooms. One of the fans a...

Drove by a whole row of houses with copper surrounding their chimneys. Copper is a main ingredient in Wet and Forget. I wonder if the creators saw somethin...

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Chimneys: lofty, solid...out there in the wind and snow and rain. But like all of us, vulnerable. Brick work isn't designed to act like a roof (like in the...

Roofs are supposed to be on top of everything else. When a roof meets a wall you've got water running down where it was not meant to and then when it gets t...

Here's a house where the gutters have become planters! Cleaning gutters (and anything else done on ladders) is a major cause of death among men of a certain ...

Ideally there should be continuous soffit vents and a continuous ridge vent in your attic to allow for a passive air flow over the inside of your roof deck w...

Some of those old one-piece dampers just can't be opened and closed easily and sometimes they have fallen out and just aren't there anymore. This is a good ...

This beautiful room doesn't have a conventional attic space. It may still be vented from the eaves to ridge as required in R806.3 of the International Resid...

New shingles can be installed for about $3.50 per square foot. Add $2.00 per square foot if you need new plywood too. Here's how you figure out how many sq...

The metal flashing wears out after about 70 years on slate roofs. To redo flashing on the valleys they have to be cut back and completely redone. Ridges ca...