Hello, Everyone! I have an old colonial home which was probably built in the late 1700's or early 1800's. One section of the roof is flat, and I have discovered that it is now leaking. This section of roof is approximately 6 x 6 and it is on the second story (approximately 30 feet off the ground). I want to add a pitch to the roof. What materials will I need? How difficult of a job is this? Is this something I can do by myself? (I am a 40-ish woman who has already replaced 4 roofs on various parts of the house with that rolled asphalt. The thing that worries me is the height/accessability factor.) Any help would be appreciated.:eek:

Hi there, 20 years ago, a contractor added an entry-way (roofed extension) as an (additional) side entrance to our basement. It is a roughly 4'x5' hallway extending into the driveway with a slightly pitched gabled roof. It butts up against the housesiding and is waterproofed by a gooped up spread of roofing tar. A pyracantha tree that used to overhang this roof got fire blight and we are guessing that that blight "infected" the plywood sheathing, spreading mostly around the edges of the plywood and to the rafters supporting it. Regardless, 15 years of deliberate neglect later, several of the rafters are completely rotted, as are the edges of the plywood. This is such a small project (40-50 square feet?), we are hoping to do the work ourselves. My concerns are (1) the rotted rafters. Some are too far gone to sister 2 x 4 reinforcements (and any way that really looks bad), but the interior of the entryway is sheetrocked. What mess are we goign to find when we tear off the original plywood sheathing under the shingles? (2) the contractor who built this entryway extension used roofing tar instead of metal flashing to seal the seam where the entryway roof meets the ship lathe siding. He really layed it on. How can we most easily remove it? Thanks for any advice on how to proceed. Frank