"mm" wrote in message
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On 26 Mar 2007 11:01:28 -0700, "RicodJour"
wrote:

On Mar 26, 1:39 pm, mm wrote:
On 26 Mar 2007 09:00:34 -0700, "RicodJour" wrote:

The Ice & Water Shield membrane (or approved equal - would somebody
kindly offer up a generic term so I don't have to keep writing "or
approved equal"? Thanks!) should extend from the edge of the roof up
to about 3' inside the line of the exterior wall. The ice damming
problem is usually due to heat from the house interior. Just dealing
with the roof overhang portion won't solve the problem.

Why do so many here point to this, when I thought the OP only had
gutters changed? A real question.

I thought the OP's first sentence was clear, and from the picture I
don't think the gutters...sorry...eavestroughs! is responsible for all
of that. Here's what she wrote:

On Mar 25, 11:39 pm, Melanie wrote:
Just had new roof, eavestroughs with flashing installed last spring.
This year we have these wet streaks running down one side of the house
(see pic herehttp://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1898931qq3.jpg).

You may have read it as "roof eavestroughs" - with the comma being a
typo, but in that case the word roof is entirely superfluous as they
can be nowhere else. It would be akin to saying "my bathroom
toilet" (please note, I am aware that the British have loos - toilets
in rooms without baths - but they're on the other side of the pond and
like being difficult anyway, so let's just ignore them, okay?). I

Okay.

I did misunderstand. My bad. Thanks.

It's also because of the pattern of the moisture. The OP hasn't said there's
water leaking in everywhere in the house,
so it seems to be coming from under the shingles just over the outside
wall....right where ice-dams would form. The melting dams then soak the
outside face of the wall otherwise protected under the eaves.

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