I bought a renovated house 9 months ago. Part of the tree is over my renovated flat roof. Small mangoes and branches have fallen on the roof since 1 month, and they become rotten and change the color of the roof. I removed the mangoes and branches, and used a broom, and now, part of the roof is black because of the rotten branches.
My plan is to cut the big branch of the tree with a pole saw so this will stop these falls. Is that a good plan?
Is it OK to leave a small part of the roof blackened by these vegetal debris? Or do I need to do something?
This is my first owned house so I have no experience.
Is there some maintenance to be done on such a flat roof? If yes, after how many years?
I forgot to take pictures after removal of vegetal debris.
Last edited by PJmax; 03-21-22 at 08:37 PM.
Reason: added pics from link
The blackening is only cosmetic so you can leave it if you want. Broom cleaning the roof will get rid of most of the organic matter that causes the staining. Then sun and weather will slowly bleach it away. You can hasten the process with more thorough cleaning or bleaching... but it's work and I'm too lazy to do it for some place that can't be seen.
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I had a house in Central America with a papaya and a mango growing over the house. The neighbor ran a bodega so I made a deal for his young son to regularly remove all the fruit and debris from my roof. They got to keep the good fruit to sell in the store.
I noticed under my house that there is a ditch is around the foundation. Should I leave it or fill it in? The house has a plastic barrier on the ground, but the plastic doesn't cover the ditch all the way to the wall. Shouldn't the plastic cover the ditch too?
Should I be concerned about this?
I’m im Canada, and this is spring, so naturally everything is melting and there’s water dripping everywhere.
I never noticed this before, but I redid my deck and sloping last year so I might be hyper-vigilant.
There is a small, albeit steady stream of water coming in to my window well. I have a membrane around the house, 4’ of stone in the well, and a drain going down to weeping tile, but:
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[*]Is it “bad” to have water leaking in to the window well?
[*]Should I somehow “seal” the window well to the foundation to coax the water to go to the side of the house where it should?
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I should also add there is a mountain behind my back yard so the best that can be done slope-wise here is towards the side, and then towards the front of the house.
thanks in advance!
Nic
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03-21-22, 06:31 PM
