Today I was preforming a “mock” roof inspection on my own home to satisfy the written essay requirement. During the inspection procedure I was checking for the bottom edge of the roof. I observed that the lower portion of the sheathening did not have underlayment, at least not the way I was instructed in the Roof Inspection portion of my Inspector training. I did not observe a drip edgeon the rake or eave, and as I mentioned I did not observe the underlayment under the rake edge nor the underlayment over the eave flange.
Is this acceptable? I do not recall this situation being addressed in the training?
Will do, maybe I can get a better pic in the morning. My concern was pulling the shingles out too far and causing damage. I did attach slightly larger pics in this reply which may help. One thing that may it be evident, the underlayment begins directly under where the shingles and sheathing meet in the pictures.
It looks like the drip edge on the eve is behind the gutter and is installed on the rake edge. Gutters and drip edge are installed bass ackwards…
Agreed. Not to mention the mangled gutter guard. …
Nope, not at all…
@dmoize you don’t have your signature filled out so we don’t know where you are located, but around here and in many parts of the country, ice and water shield is required as the first row of underlayment. Not seeing that in your picture…
Look up some prominent shingle manufacturer installation instructions; it will help you see what the industry expects. Get accustomed to doing this, it will be life altering
There is roof edge flashing/drip edge. There is no roofing felt/underlayment or ice & water shield. That layer of material that your thumb is touching is unusual. Is that starter course material? Above that there appears to be two more layers of shingle like material - unusual to have a starter course then two more layers of shingles.
Edit: Maybe that material that I called starter course is rolled roofing installed to perform the function of Ice & Water Shield.
Maybe this will help you. The one variation to the diagram is that the Underlayment does not have to cover the Ice & Water Shield. It does have to overlap it:
Look like the inspector lifted the sloped shingle roof at the raked end. If it is, that would be a installation defect. No sheathing barrier under no drip edge. The shingles should be secured. No mastic. Looks like the gutter guard was installed under the shingles.
Not a defective diagram. Just one of a few ways to install roofing components.
When I was roofing back in the 90’s, we would drape the IWC over 1 1/2", peel the backing off, and stick it to the fascia. I still see roofers doing the same today. Usually it’s on higher end homes though.
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ndegaris
(Neil DeGaris, CMI KY License # 102167)
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It’s there, they just didn’t finish the last 5 or so inches, I see this quite a bit in my area.
