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Every Mistake Possible On One Brand-New Roof
Doing a new construction inspection, with a flat, front-porch EPDM roof, it's hard to do, but I found every mistake possible on one brand-new roof.
For the client, to say it was disappointing would not begin to approach their true feelings.  This house provided me 8.5 pages of notes, and I write my notes in shorthand.
EPDM is a synthetic rubber roof, made by Firestone.  Properly installed it is a great product.  Poorly installed the roof can have rotting within a couple of years.
This is what every post on the guardrail over the porch looked like.

Obviously uninformed as to how to do seams, this "installer" simply piled layer upon layer of material.
Under and all around each post!
See how the subsurface is already sinking?
There should be no puddles on an EPDM roof - the material can't handle it!
And never mind gluing the edges!
Of course the edges must be glued.  But even when they are the top of the edge is not left exposed like that.
There is a special way to finish the edge, and a professional installer would know that.
See what's going on in the background, against the brick?
Yes, the EPDM is ... more

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