Metal shingle repair - Possible in the field?

OS: He usually gets the debris cleaned out of the skylight yearly. It's mainly leaking on one side, but does leak some in the middle and has leaked on the other side. I agree about the middle flashing though. Also, very perceptive about the venting. I hadn't attributed that to the decking pop or other issues.

Tom: I keep going back and forth on that. I've never torn off such an expensive roof! Backwards cap: I'm assuming the cricket looks backwards, but it might be the angle. I took that picture with my arm extended around the chimney because I couldn't see the cricket from the ladder.

If I do tear it off, I might suggest Insprire fake slate. I've been wanting to try them out.

edit: Okay, I have torn off that expensive of a roof, just not so new. Forgot about the clay and concrete tiles we have ripped before.

I'm with bdub. At the end of the day, you'll be wishing you just started from scratch.

Gotta love that backwards cap

Clover, That is one reason to use the Metro shingles as they can be "unzipped" and removed if need be. You know that now though.

It looks like their flashing against the wall and the chimney if that is what I am seeing consists of a good caulk job. Very suspect for sure, especially where the stone and siding come together. I would bet if you can tear that apart you will find water beneath it. Also, on the skylight, I would consider replacing the step "U" shaped flashings between the lights and putting in one single piece. that is normally what you see with the velux units and properly installed they don't leak. They had problems with it before as you can see that they installed a single flashing across the top to try and keep the water out. You will also notice that there is a lot of debris between the top two higher units as the water can't wash down between them to clean it all out.

Finally, I will bet you a nickel that the "pops" are caused by improper ventilation as I don't see much there. Heck, if they are a lawyer and a judge, they should just sue someone. that is the normal progression of things anyway!

Also, he had the siding removed from the chimney before this and had the stone installed. The weight caused problems with the foundation and he had to pay $15k to get that fixed!

The joys of being a homeowner.

Oh wow, that's a good point about the locks. You can see that a lot of them are dented, too many goobers trying to caulk it. I might have to try that though, because we all know that even a caulk job is much better with the right applicator. That decking pop will have to be addressed, but maybe not this year if I can stop the others without pulling panels.

I know I could buy a Wasco skylight that would be a one shot deal and just flash to the curb, I bet I'd have to set it up there with a boom truck or four guys. Other than that, I would think this would be a standard kit from Anderson/Velux to interconnect.

It would have to be a low pitch cricket, or else your getting a pretty high curb.

Lawyer & judge couple, but I don't care who you are, it sucks to replace an asphalt roof after 10 years, then a metal roof after ten years.

Oh boy! My 2cents probably wont help much cause i usually tear off stuff like that. I can say though that i tried to repair some copper shingles similar to those and wasnt able to. I ended up having to take them off and once i did, the foot traffic over the years smashed up the locks on the seams and we couldnt get them to go back together in a way that made us feel comfortable so we replaced them. I was surprised, thought i could do some surgery for sure. Not to say those shingles you dealing with are the same though.

I dont like the flashing detail and not sure it could be done much better. Some of these products are designed in a way that limits our detail options. For the skylights, i would yuck them all out, raise them all up as one enough to get a cricket behind them then close it all in as one. That would take a lot of time and money though. If the budget called for repair on this one id get a couple cases of vulkem.