How To Repair A Roof Turbine

Sometimes the water shows up at a ceiling spot distant from the leak.

How to repair a roof turbine. Saturate the area on and around each point with the silicone lubricant. Apply roofing cement to the underside of the turbine base flashing with a trowel or putty knife. I could feel a little gritty grindy resistance in one of them two of them gave a humming kind of squeak and the fourth was pretty smooth. Locate the turbine vent.

6 lift the shingles on the side of the vent hole closest to the roof peak slightly and slide the. Insert a small wooden dowel to keep the turbine from spinning if it happens to be windy. Some roof leaks are tough to locate. If your ceiling has a plastic vapor barrier between the drywall and the attic insulation push the insulation aside and look for flow stains on the plastic often water runs to openings in the vapor barrier such as at ceiling light fixtures.

Find the primary pivot points on each blade and the center pinion.