Health & Fitness
On Living With a Flat Roof
While a "flat-roof" gives the architect designing it many advantages, there's a lot less for the homeowner to celebrate.
A flat roof gives the architect designing it many advantages, quite a few fewer to the homeowner.
Mid-Century Modern homes including our first one in Innis Arden (see the New Homes Guide Magazine cover pictured) often had dead flat roofs. Nowdays "torch-down" roofs are used rather than the earlier hot tar roofs. The first thing we did when we bought our "tear-down" some 25 years ago was to tear off the old cracked tar roof and then install first 4" of urethane insulation and then a new torch-down roof which has lasted pretty well these many years. However the roof was developing some leaks; it needed a bit of careful renewal.
It was time to recoat it with Henry HE107- a well-recommended rubberized elastomeric asphalt product. My photographs herewith tell the story,
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As time goes on, I'll be writing quite a bit more about these many hard-learned essential and unavoidable Home-Maintenance Issues on this, my continuing Mercer Island PatchBlog. J-