The Ugliest Roofs of 2013

This year I have inspected some down right nasty and ugly roofs! Post your most horrific and ugliest roofs that you came across in 2013 (commercial or residential, flat, shingle, SPF, TPO, Tile etc).

Need I say anymore on this?

Looks Good! did you go back with shingles on the low slope or torch?

Just plain ugly... The sad part is that the property owner thought he was getting a coating!

A little life on a roof... It may not be ugly but it sure can make a roof ugly!

Santa brought me a new external hard drive for my MAC and I have been transferring my pictures, freeing up memory. It still amazes me what people will accept. This is the same building, The building owner using the same roofer, over and over and each time he repairs the roof, it still leaked. Finally he said enough was enough...

I worked in the Dallas/Fort Worth area 21 years ago for a whole week. My stay in the town of Grapevine was so short I only remember two things about it.

Immigration had the little mini buses driving around and as soon as the Mexicans saw them coming they would run down the ladder and through peoples back yards jumping fences, etc.

I remember that and it was my first introduction to the 5 inch diagonal pattern of installing 3-tabs.

This was a large complex, not too many contractors understand tile roofing in Dallas. The property manager had several leaks in different buildings, the underlayment was shot. We had to do a complete Tile R&R.

Yikes! :huh:

He asked me if there was anything he could do short of replacing the flat roof and building it up.

I said " You could get some gold fish". :silly:

Actually, the elderly gentleman you see near the top of the ladder had a leak on the shingled portion about 4 feet up from the tie in. At first I was hesitant to just do a repair due to all that ponding water until I discovered the leak was indeed on the shingle portion and being caused by unlevelness where two 1x6 decking boards met.

Believe it or not, the flat part with all that water on it was not leaking a drop. It had been about a week since the last rain too. :dry:

The was an apartment complex insurance claim I scoped. There was interior damage at most of the scuppers. The pigeon feces was so bad that it caused water to back track into each unit. Some of the scuppers were completely blocked!

The average insurance policy does not cover damage that occurs from a "lack of maintenance!" Inform your customers to have annual roof inspections and provide detailed reports.

Here's one I call, "STOP THE MADNESS!" A foam roof installed over a asphalt and gravel roof with large thermo-fused modified bitumen sections plus where the torch came up they applied a layer of plastic cement. then the blisters started.... What a mess!

Yes it does... did it ever leak at the shingle tie-in?

I'd say this one qualifies:

This was a Atlas shingle roof that had a very bad "rash". The manufacturer did not stand behind the shingle, and the homeowner ended up replacing the entire roof.

"Texas has one of the highest rates of fraud in the roofing repair industry!" -Texas State Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman

Here's a great video I just uploaded: BAD ROOFERS EXPOSED! http://youtu.be/IZpGPPN2pvk

This video should make you laugh!