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Smoko => Dodgy Plumbing or Great Plumbing => Topic started by: Fordy on August 03, 2016, 08:49:01 AM

Title: How Not To Flash a hot water vent pipe
Post by: Fordy on August 03, 2016, 08:49:01 AM: The picture says it all - this installer had shares in the silicone manufacturing plant.
Title: Re: How Not To Flash a hot water vent pipe
Post by: integrated on August 03, 2016, 07:14:27 PM: obviously a temporary overnight job the roofers did when replacing the roof - clearly you can see there was an over flashing/soaker and a dektite on top of that
Title: Re: How Not To Flash a hot water vent pipe
Post by: Fordy on August 03, 2016, 09:27:22 PM: nope... you can see half a bracket cut down to cover the hole, then silicone it all together, it was actually leaking, as was the dektite and soaker (you can see the rust)
it was a handyman who reroofed this one charged 13k for his efforts we were then hired to redo the bulk of the flashings and tidy up - I loathe fixing FU's :)

Added some more pictures so you get the general idea
Title: Re: How Not To Flash a hot water vent pipe
Post by: integrated on August 03, 2016, 10:45:02 PM: yeah ok - thats pretty bad

those soakers are terrible - not sure what they were thinking with those, due to no actual ridge line they would have to extend to the other side if not all the way down to the bottom of tray - not just the soakers that are terrible but, the parapets as well and sawtooth much?
Title: Re: How Not To Flash a hot water vent pipe
Post by: Fordy on August 04, 2016, 12:11:45 PM: yeh we redid all the soaker flashings, ripped the parapet flashings off and put a timber packer all the way around on the inside as they were made too wide and were rattling in the breeze. Put in a new chimney as the old one was had it and leaking inside.