We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When the skies open and the rains descend, it's not just the integrity of your roofing materials that defends your home from becoming a newly ...

An article in the March issue of Quality Home, a bimonthly newsletter on construction quality from IBACOS, details the water management strategy required when a sloped roof meets a vertical wall (such ...

Asphalt, wood shakes, slate and other overlapped roofings are fine until they meet an obstruction. Up against a dormer, a vent pipe, a chimney, they need flashing — a patchwork of metal sheets, and ...

Have you ever noticed a small water stain on your ceiling or walls after a storm? Or maybe you’ve found a mysterious damp spot near your windows, or heard a strange drip-drip sound coming from the ...

When water shows up on your ceiling with no obvious hole in the roof, you are usually not dealing with a freak event. You are ...

Q. I had a home built this year and decided to have it inspected. The inspector found a problem with the “counter flashings,” which he said were improperly installed. The metal flashings are on the ...