Inspecting an EPDM Roof on a Residential Home

Rubber roofing that has some areas that are over caulked and have tears

As the inspection video mentions there a number of reasons why the edges of this roof are in bad shape. Half of the edges of the roof or not covered tape, they are just more strips of membrane laid over the roof edges. The section in this picture shows the edges of the roof cupping and holding water. This is causing leaks in the front and the back of the roof at the edges.

These photos are from the front and the back of the roof, where ever there is a gutter or should be a gutter there’s probably some sort of a roof leak. You can see that there are several sections that are stained and there are several sections that are rotten because of the edges of the roof taking on water.

The drip edge at the eaves of the Ruth only or what we we are suggesting to replace.  The reason is because they are not lapped and not laid correctly for most of the edges.

This tear is where there was a repair done and it could be letting water leak.

I have never seen this amount of caulking on a rubber roof.  There are places that this caulking could allow water in to leak.

We use the Aldo coating in most places behind the cover tape to additionally re-enforce these areas.

Added new cover tape.  Cover tape was added at all roof eaves because it’s had been previously not installed correctly

We added new rear Gutters as a portion of this project too.

We put additional coding in a number of locations on the roof.  This is because these locations were either not loud correctly or needed reinforcement because of misinstallation.

This is another location where we use EPDM cover tape To protect the roof.

Final roof inspection video