Skylight leaks
Water around a roof window
EPDM is a rubber membrane used on flat roofs, bonded rather than welded, with seams made using tape or adhesive. It fails at those seams, at upstands where the material turns up a wall, and through shrinkage over time pulling the membrane away from its terminations. It is durable in the field and repairable almost indefinitely, so a leaking EPDM roof is rarely a replacement job.
Soperton sits in the eastern part of the state where the housing stock is the defining factor. Treutlen County has a wide spread of roof ages, from pre-war homes with original framing to recent subdivisions, and the leak profile differs sharply between them. Older properties leak at chimney flashing and valleys where decades of movement have opened joints that were never designed to flex. Newer ones leak at penetrations — boots, vents and skylights — where installation shortcuts show up five to ten years later. Summer storms bring wind and hail through on the same line that hits central Georgia, so both add storm damage on top.
Soperton has a population of about 2,889, and the housing stock here sets the pattern for what fails first on a roof.
Over many years, slightly — enough to put tension on upstands and terminations, which is where older rubber roofs most often fail. It is repairable by releasing and redressing the affected edge rather than recovering the roof.
No. They are different chemistries and the adhesives and tapes are not interchangeable. Using TPO products on EPDM produces a repair that looks fine and fails within a season.
Water around a roof window
Ponding, seams and parapet flashing
Cedar shake roofs
Single-ply flat roof membrane
Condition assessment and report
Replacing a failed roof window
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