About two weeks ago my wife noticed some water leaking down through the bathroom ceiling onto the floor. The ceiling is made of wood planks with small gaps between each one. My first thought was that our roof was leaking. I'm incredibly careful so I went to my local home improvement store to pick up one of those buckets with an anchor, harness, etc. While I was there I had a change of heart. I didn't want to buy all that stuff, get on the top of my roof, and then not be able to find the source of the leak. I put the stuff back on the shelf and called a local handyman. He came out later that afternoon, sort of looked at the leak through the heat vent that I had removed, and climbed up on top of the roof (with zero safety equipment I might add). He decided the culprit was a few holes where the satellite dish was added (previous owner). He caulked those up and made sure everything else was sealed up as well. Cost, $200. I figured it would take a few days for the leak to finally drain itself out. I waited a few days, saw no improvement, so I called him back. He prided himself in guaranteeing his work, so he came out, added some more caulk, and left without charging me anything. Fast forward about 4-5 days, there isn't a leak per say, but the beam where I noticed the leak is still seeping water. Its no longer leaking onto the floor, but when you put your hand up to it you can feel it misting (for lack of a better word). I called him again this evening and he seemed shocked that it was still leaking. Said it could be any number of things such as the condensation line from the furnace. He said if he comes out and the leak is from anywhere other than the holes he sealed up, he'd have to charge me. I quite simply can't afford that. I don't believe the leak is caused by a pipe. There are a few pipes in the area, but the roof ABOVE the pipes are wet. I climbed back into the attic today and took some pictures and was hoping that some of you might be able to help me. I'm at my wits end. My theories: 1) Originally I thought the leak was coming from something attached to the roof, seeping through the shingles/tar/etc between two pieces of plywood and finally through the beam. 2) Its just condensation from the bathroom. Though its only concentrated in one area, not above the shower. 3) The house is on stilts because its on the side of a hill. There is no deck or usable back yard, so there is no gutter on the roof. Rain just rolls off the end. Maybe some of it leaks down off the last shingle, but somehow ends up going into the roof structure itself, pooling, and finally seeping through into the attic. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'd really like to be able to take care of this myself to save some money. If I have to, I don't mind paying a professional to come fix it, but it will be a different company because this guy didn't even want to climb into the attic to get a good look at what was going on. There would be a lot more weight behind his "guaranteeing my work" if he actually looked for the root cause vs. jumping on the most plausible explanation and going from there. Many thanks in advance for your help. As someone who has to leave his house for 3-4 days at a time, this has been rather nerve racking. Can't wait to finally tackle it. Here are the pictures: [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriegel/9294755151/][/url] [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriegel/9294755151/]Untitled[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/jriegel/]screaming_emu[/url], on Flickr [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriegel/9297534076/][/url] [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriegel/9297534076/]Untitled[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/jriegel/]screaming_emu[/url], on Flickr [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriegel/9294757203/][/url] [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriegel/9294757203/]Untitled[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/jriegel/]screaming_emu[/url], on Flickr Seeing as that last picture isn't showing up, here's a link to the photo set. [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriegel/sets/72157634660255112/]Roof Leak - a set on Flickr[/url]

I am making a plan for a porch cover addition to my house. The house is stucco like 99% of the homes around here. The porch cover will have a metal roof which is also very common here. I have a question about how this metal roof is usually flashed to the stucco. The problem I have is that I have read about the correct way to do it (inserted under the stucco), but then I look around and have seen none that are done that way. I've seen probably 100 or so, all just stick on the surface (I can see the sealer on the top edge). The many I have seen are done with a flashing or endwall with a flared top edge, just adhered to the stucco with some kind of silicone or something. I understand that this is not the right way to do it, so why do I see none done that way? Could it be our low rainfall (about 9 inches per year)?