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- 1 Ridge and exhaust — Where the attic is supposed to breathe out. Sized in 1975 on half this arc.
- 2 The shingle field — The part everyone looks at. The sun works it from above, the attic from below.
- 3 The valley — Every afternoon’s rain, funnelled into one seam.
- 4 Wall flashing — Where the garage roof meets the house. Rebuilt metal outlives the shingles; caulk does not.
- 5 The vent boot — A rubber collar on a faster clock than the roof around it. The arc’s most common leak.
- 6 Eaves, drip edge and soffit intake — The hardware salt reaches first, and the intake the attic breathes through.
A roof rarely fails where you look
The shingle field gets the attention; the junctions, the hardware and the attic underneath do most of the failing. That is why the first useful question about any roof problem is not what the covering looks like, but what is happening around it and under it.
- Miles from the waterMiles from the water: how distance decides what fails
- The vent boot clockThe vent boot: the small part on a fast clock
- Aging in wavesRoofs that age in waves
- What the tear-off findsWhat the tear-off finds
- Cooked from both sidesCooked from both sides
- The junction problemThe junction problem: where roofs actually leak
The work
Twelve cities, ocean side to Gulf side
From the salt air of Merritt Island to the inland heat of Ocala and the subdivision waves of Land O’ Lakes: twelve markets working through the same sun and the same daily summer rain, each failing in its own way.