There is a leak around my chimmney in my house and I am not real sure how to repair it.?
2007-03-23 10:53:30 · 4 answers · asked by liz 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
The sure way, even if the metal flashing has holes in it. Go to a good lumber or home store and buy a roll of fiberglass flashing cloth and a bucket of fibrous roof sealing tar. Get a pair of cheap gloves as well. Put the gloves on, dip into the tar and lay a good layer of it all around the base of the chimney. Cut strips of the cloth and lay/press them into the tar. Apply more tar then more cloth then more tar. You want the tar and cloth on the roof and up the base of the chimney for four or five inches on each. The idea is to crease the cloth so that each piece covers from the chimney out onto the roof. The tar does the sealing and the cloth helps hold it all together. I did mine when I bought my house in 1982 and have never had a leak around the chimney since. Just touched up with tar a couple of times. Using your gloved hands is a lot easier and more efficient than trying to trowel it on.
2007-03-23 18:39:53 · answer #1 · answered by mustanger 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need step flashing around the chimney that is let into the masonry. It helps if the roof was designed correctly, and that is not always the case.
You can use roof patching tar as a temporary fix
2007-03-23 11:19:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cold Tar the flashing around it, good luck.
2007-03-23 11:05:23 · answer #3 · answered by Les the painter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can buy caluking tubes of tar at the hardware store, just make a good seal with that.
2007-03-23 11:21:24 · answer #4 · answered by cronos51101 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋