Isolate areas when you run the hose.
Roof nail leak.
Here are a 19 signs you may have a roof leak water stains or damp spots on your ceiling moist drywall or paint around light fixtures or electrical outlets damp spots around interior air vents or fireplaces interior paint bubbling or peeling during hard rains dripping sounds inside your home water.
In some cases a leak can be caused by something as small as a roofing nail.
Nail the newcomer down securely and then re nail its neighbors.
If a leak is difficult to find enlist a helper and go up on the roof with a garden hose.
Next year it starts leaking again.
Fill small nail holes with silicone caulk or roof cement.
If you find a shingle lying in your garden chances are the next rainstorm will be sending water into your house.
Start low soaking the area just above where the leak appears in the house.
If possible have someone hose down your roof.
If the nail is angled too much the nail head will not be flush with the shingle and may eventually back out.
Patch the nail or screw holes by slipping a piece of roof flashing underneath the shingle.
Spray your roof with water and climb into the attic to look for leaks.
Told him don t bother trying to fix it just give me a bid on a new roof.
Roofing sub came out took a look found water leaking in at about dozen nails he pulled them and it stopped for a few weeks.
Started leaking again he came out found more nails leaking.
If any of these isn t then the roofing nail can back out possibly causing a hole in the shingle.
This of course can lead to a roof leak.
Common causes of exposed roofing nails include.
Sometimes a roofing nail will not embed in a rafter like it is supposed to be but will protrude into the attic.
How to fix nail holes in a roof 1.
Another reason for nails backing out or nail pops is the angle that the nail was driven in.
Nail too short nails between seams nails between decking grooves nails in decking knots joints roof decking not strong enough improper nailing angled old deteriorated caulking old decayed rotten decking.
I would suggest to remove the nail and put a urethane sealer which can be found at any home store to seal the hole from underneath.
Water or frost can easily effect this nail and eventually cause a leak.
Just make sure that you don t damage the shingles lifting them up.
Small nail holes left behind from old vents satellite dish brackets or anything previously attached to the roof can allow water to enter and cause damage for years before leaking is noticed.
Smaller nail holes will be permanently fixed by this method.
For example soak the downhill side of a chimney first then each side then the top on both sides.
