czechsonofagun
Elite Member
The screened porch on the back of our house was leaking for years. The roof pitch is very low and it was just getting worse. The plan is to eventually replace the porch - i.e. steel roofing was never an option.
I tried to fix it three times with left over shingles and tarp and it never really worked. Well, this time I used felt paper, glued it together with tar and troweled seams with roofing cement and it is really waterproof now. Maybe another coat of flat roof paint will protect the felt paper from sun and wind and it will hold till comes the time to rebuild it from scratch.
Now to my next impossible challenge - to find a job that pays more than poverty level and when I accomplish that I will move to the challenge of my life:
Learn how to whistle through my fingers
I tried to fix it three times with left over shingles and tarp and it never really worked. Well, this time I used felt paper, glued it together with tar and troweled seams with roofing cement and it is really waterproof now. Maybe another coat of flat roof paint will protect the felt paper from sun and wind and it will hold till comes the time to rebuild it from scratch.
Now to my next impossible challenge - to find a job that pays more than poverty level and when I accomplish that I will move to the challenge of my life:
Learn how to whistle through my fingers