Love the detail in this video. Great presentation and it has gone along way to making me feel more comfortable about the metal roofing projects that I have coming up. Answers a lot of questions!
Man! So I had a plumber vent my pipe right next to the rib like you have here in the video. I tried a boot on there but it looks like poop and just isn’t gonna work. Your video is the only in depth one I see on RU-vid explaining in detail how to fix it. Gonna get on this right away. Excellent video, very detailed. I wish the camera would have shown from the top looking down to see where the Z track met the rib. Thanks buddy
Boy someone really did a crappy job installing those how did they get by with it being left like that really horrible just looking at those .You can tell you really know your stuff Great job you did
Thanks so much! as a temporary stopgap measure, I might just put a squirt of that solar seal right where the boot is crimped over the seam and leaving an air gap. Or a squished up ball of butyl tape like you described. Longer term. I think I might get a small metal brake and try just what you showed.
It was able to be sealed and monitored all the way around before. Now, it is all dependent on the seam(s) of the z bar, which are now out of sight and reach to reseal.
This guy seemed like he was learning himself during the video! The last method of marking out zbar seemed a lot more practical. That would drive me crazy as a home owner seeing those details not line up.
First time I see a pipe boot installed like that, interesting stuff but i don't do metal roofs, can you imagine doing this same repair on a metal roof 2 story high at a 12/12 pitch?
10 years later on my DIY standing seam snaploc 22-squares roof I realize I installed the seam boots wrong. Gonna have to pull them off and do what this video shows...
Guys should be required to move pipes if Necessary to put boots on the flat. The siphon notch on the over lap of screw down metal can even be an issue. This one, even after he re-did it is still so-so, because of the over lap.
What is that platform your standing on. I have a metal roof on my barn that needs a small repair but I'm concerned I'll slide off. What's the secret to walking on a metal roof safely?
Well... you said "installed incorrectly." Not sure about that. You had to muscle those off, and they wouldn't have leaked for 25 years. Sure yours is nicer. But ugly and works doesnt mean incorrect. Just sayin
Well it’s installed incorrectly when it leaks, which like he said all during the intro was all wet inside the boot. Just because it’s hard to get off doesn’t mean installed correctly. Ugly and leaks is far from correct or professional, just sayin.
Observations 1. Using thin garage metal, 26 or 29 2. Aesthetically pleasing but still has the same weak vulnerable leak spot, the upper side relies on caulk to keep it from leaking.
Id say the end result is worse than what it started at as Snow melting and Freezing(expanding) , snow sliding and moving...Is just going to mess this flashing up over few years
This is an absolute disaster in the making which will without doubt end up causing more of a leak than it attempted to fix for the sake of simple aesthetics. This is only going to last as long as the caulk does and that's it.
