On an inspection yesterday, there were two large Eye bolts sticking out of the roof. I could not get the area of the attic to see how they were attached. The bolts when down through lead plumbing boots and roof tar had been poured in around them to fill the lead boot.
They look like they were put there as tie off anchors but that does not make sense. The home is one story and about a 4/12 pitch. Also one of the bolts is only located about 4 feet from the edge of the roof.
When I first saw them from the ground, I thought that the bolts had been stuck down a vent pipe. When I got up on the roof, I saw that the plumbing boot was completely filled. I probed it with my screw driver and it appeared to be tar. Not roof cement but the hot melted kind that gets hard when it solidifies.
