Transcription: Hi this is Jeff Petrucci with Bloomfield Construction; I’m here with a coworker, Tom Harcles, and we are doing a roof inspection on this house in Bloomfield Hills — very big, big home; haven’t measured it yet. I’m guessing the roof is in access of 200 sq; big hip roof with multiple levels and pitch changes and high ends and there’s just a multitude of things that are wrong up here. First of all, they put a second roof over top of a roof, so it’s starting to hump and accentuate. If you look over here, you might be able to see the humping going on. The top of this rounded window is flat and they got shingles up on it. If we come further down here, this section I measured it and it’s less than 1/12th pitch and they’ve got shingles on this, which is improper. It should be some kind of flat membrane. The big problem, we had tremendous amount of ice damming this winter right in this corner. You can see by the design, everything pitches down to here and it gets to this corner and it just can’t run out and it freezes. It freezes in this corner and they left a bunch of debris in there that probably caught up all of the ice. Someone tried to put heat tape in there, but it was too late. You can see the damage to the shingles from trying to remove all the snow and ice up here; there’s little chips broken off everywhere. So, the customer wants to try to fix it and there’s no fix here. It has to do with the design, the weather conditions. The last thing we’d want to do — or any roofing contractor, I’d think — is to sell a roof repair in here and tell them they’re going to fix the ice dam problem, it’s not possible. One of the other big problems we have is all these facscias run on an angle, and they’re triple stacked and they all cut into the roof line and there’s no flashings behind but you can see here someone added flashing after this fascia boards are so tight to the roof that they’re all starting to rot and there’s about 15 different intersections where this is going on and water and bugs in there and everything. Now we’ve got to come up with a price to redo this roof and hopefully the customer wants to pay it and do it the right way. Otherwise we will not be interested in doing this job. There’s only one way to do it, and that’s redo everything — skylights, flashings on all these chimneys, take all those fascias off and put flashing behind there. Time will tell what they if they got the right guy if they decide to hire us. Hope you all have a great day.
