Some downtown Toronto homes feature a rear sloped roof with a dormer with a walkout onto a flat roof. Very often we encounter that the door step has not been appropriately sealed and flashed and is therefore leaking, as was the case with out client’s home in the the downtown Toronto Annex neighbourhood.
Here is an example of an inappropriate installation of a chimney flashing on a sloped roof that is sure to leak. When we examined the client's roof we easily spotted this inappropriate installation as the tall cone chimney flashing was installed over the shingles.
In January we received a call from a distraught client with a severely leaking flat roof. The leakage had created significant water damage in the dining area where the flat roof was above. The entire ceiling needed to be redone.