How Can We Fix this 9000 Square Foot Roof????

Okay, y'all we're up on top of my big building here. It's a big green building and it's got a build-up roof on it, fiber build-up or asphalt build-up basically. They put insulation down then they put the mock tar on it, black tar, and then they put something like felt paper in it and then they tar it again and they put felt paper and tar it again and felt paper and tar it again. It's called a build-up so they build it up with that. We're up here today looking because we've got a few leaks like this spot here. That's a low spot. That ain't good. I'm sure that's probably where some of the leaks coming from. I'm just looking around here like right there's a little hole that we got to fix there. That patch there ain't that good. There's a few more down there that we've got to work on. We've got to figure this out here shortly and we'll figure out how to fix it. I ain't exactly sure but we're going to get something and see what we can do here. See how we can fix it. Donnie, they can't see you. They really can't see you. Can they see me yet? No. Walk over into the light. Now how come they can't see you in this big building? Because there ain't no power. There ain't no lights and we ain't got the generators running. All right, so we are in our big building downtown, one of them. Big building. Hey y'all, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. Give us a thumbs up for filming it because y'all come every week so go ahead and give us a thumbs up. Exactly. Tell them how to do it on the TV. They don't know how to do it on a Roku. That's the problem. The TV. Hit the down button. You're killing us with the light. I can't see. Let's walk over here. I'm blind. Okay. On the Roku, how do you thumbs up a video? Hit the down button. They're not going to do it unless you do it like the nosed hatter does. Hit your down button on your TV thing and the little red line will come up. Go over to the side where it says options. Hit that and then the thumbs up button will be over there. You go over and you click it and that'll give me the thumbs up but don't click it twice now. Yeah, it'll mess you all up. Don't do that. One time. Okay, so we are in this big building downtown. Big building. And this is the one that the tornado tore down. Tore down. And we haven't put any electrical in this building yet because the roof leaks. Roof leaks. It's a big building. Big building. We're talking 9,000 square feet. That's big for us. That's a lot of room, right? And there's hardly any slope on the roof. That's another problem. So what happened was the building got torn down. And when it did, the guy replaced the roof with steel I-beams. So he rebuilt the building with steel I-beams and then he used it as a shop for many years. But the roof is leaking and the electrical is just ridiculous. So we're not reusing any of this electrical. The electrical, they daisy-chained it off of another building also. Yeah, so it's, you know, the electrical needs to be redone. Now we don't need everything rewired in the building but it would be nice to have a few outlets and a few lights in the building. But before we do that, we need to get where there's no water in the building. I don't like putting electrical on a building that's got literally water coming into it. So we got to work on the roof. So what are we going to do, Donnie? Now we're not doing it today. We're just trying to get our ducks in a row because it's a 9,000 square foot roof. Well, I'll tell you what we have already tried. Let's go there. Okay. We tried some old Henry wet patch stuff, but it's so big we got probably 20 leaks in here. Now it's not the end of the world. It's a concrete floor. There's nothing in where any of the leaks are. So nothing's getting wet. It's important, but we want to get all the water out because it puts moisture in the air too. So we went around and tried to find all the holes. We did that a couple weeks ago. Well, that looks like it made it worse. So we ain't doing that no more. So we probably need to hot tar this thing is how they've done it in the past. Basically you put hot tar down and then you put something like felt paper in it. And then you put hot tar down again and felt paper. And it's called a buildup roof. So right now up there, we've got fiberglass sticking up all over the place. So we basically need to hot tar this roof or put a rubber membrane on it. And we don't really want to put a rubber membrane on it right now. It's just our storage building and a rubber membrane. They get expensive quick. And then you got to pay to install it. Yeah, they get more than what the buildings cost. So we don't want to do that at the moment. The way the guy built it was he put in huge I-beams like out of a bridge or a skyscraper or something. And then he put, what are those, two by eights that span it probably 15 feet, 16 feet. No, it's got to be less than that. Something like that. Must be 12 foot, 5 x 12, 60 right? Yeah, okay. That makes sense. Yeah, this is 60 foot span. Must be about 12 foot. About 12 feet spans. And then he put corrugated metal on the top of it that I believe he salvaged from somewhere else. Absolutely. Corrugated steel. And then he has the roof built up on top of that. No, then he's got another layer of corrugated steel. Okay. And then he's got two inches of insulation on top of that. And then the buildup's on top of that. So it's a hell of a roof, but it's old and it's deteriorated and it needs some work. And usually when you do this, that decking up there, that corrugated metal is like 50 foot long. Well, all this stuff is like eight or 10 foot long. Yeah. Where you patched it all together and basket weaved it basically to get it all to fit, which there's no problem with that, but it's making it hell for us now. Yeah. Because if the leak's down yonder, you don't know where it's running out and you assume it's in this four or five foot area. Hell, it could be 20 feet up the hill and you don't know. Yeah. So we're fighting it all over the place. But let's go up here and show them the leaks, Ronnie. All right. Right here's one. That's not that bad. It's still a leak. Yeah. From the roof, you think, huh? Uh-huh. A little water there. This is from our air conditioner where we pulled in here earlier. This is not a leak. Hey, wasn't there one here that ain't there anymore? Yeah. That's because they fixed the wall. So we went up a couple of weeks ago and we just started trying to address this problem. And so we went up a couple of weeks ago and where the roofing meets the wall where the flashing was, there was problems all over the place. So we went through and worked on all of that. That looks wet. Is that wet? It looks wet. So where it hits the wall, we worked on the flashing a lot. So we think we've got it a lot better. But again, all this electrical is coming out. We're not using any of this crap. Look at that though. That's coming right out of the wall. There's nothing wet there. That might not be water, man. It might just look like water. You can see it drip. Huh? Is it dripping right there in the center of the wall? The wall's probably slightly crooked and it's dripping from above and hitting the wall right there. That could be. It could be jumping off that vane and hitting it. Yeah. There's a little spot there still that's leaking. They can't see much. Right here's a pretty good spot that's leaking. Uh-oh. Donnie's battery's dying. There's a spot that's leaking. Right there underneath the skid-steer is a spot that's leaking. Better close my rain. What's the odds? Thing's hitting just perfect. Right here's another spot that's leaking. Well, here comes the rain. Maybe we'll see an actual leak. It just hit me on my hand. Yeah, see it's stuff like that. You see how they've got the roofing? So water is getting in somewhere farther up the roof and then once it's in, it just runs down and drips off the sheet and it's hard to tell exactly where it's getting in. See that stuff ain't even lined up there. Yeah, because they went over the top of it with another piece. Just crazy the way it was built. But it's solid as hell. Mainly because their eyebeams are so huge. Like right here's a pretty good representation. The big wet spot. And then right there. All right, so we need people down below. Tell us what they used to fix the roof. Tell us what you used. Does it need to be hot tarred? Is that the way we're going to have to But look right here. Somebody else did this before us evidently. They put the whole damn lid in there. Yeah, he must have had some kind of exhaust going out there or something. I don't know if the blinking's because the battery's dying. There's a little leak there too. Well, but it's been pouring down the rain. It's raining right now. So we have got every building that we own dry except this one. And this is the biggest one. So those over there, perfectly dry. The jailhouse, nice and dry. The grocery store, we went ahead, totally new roof, dry. And then the big one right here next to us, dry. Dry. Perfectly dry. But we haven't done anything to this one. We just recently started messing with it. So this is the, this is our latest that we're going to have to mess with. Now we've owned it for a while, but since it's storage right now, eventually we might turn it into rentable spaces. But until then. It's getting progressively worse. It didn't used to be this bad. It's the only one that has a flat roof is the main problem. Yeah, everything else has got a little bit of slant on it. If it wasn't raining, we'd climb up and show them what's on it. And I would too. Boy, I'd be right up on that roof if it wasn't raining. But it's a nice, I mean, the guy did a pretty good job of building it out with steel I-beams. Show them the spot over here, Donnie, where the wall's lit. So that's the only piece of the original building that's left. The tornado ripped everything else down. But the guy rebuilt it all with steel I-beams and then they put tin on it. There used to be big fans out here on the street hanging out of the wall and they fell out one day. So the guy had to replace the siding, but he got it. He got another pretty good. All right. So give us your opinion. Flat roof. What is a cheap, not necessarily cheap, but an economical way to do a 9,000 square foot flat roof with this getting leaks all through it. You know, we wanted to leave it how it is and put something on it. You know, we don't want to start tearing it apart. The trick is I'm probably not going to use this building for anything other than storage for the next four or five years. And garage and stuff like that. So I don't want to dump tens of thousands of dollars in it. But we also don't want to leave it alone and let it get progressively worse. Yeah. So I'm trying to find a happy median here to figure out exactly what to do. All right. So let us know what you think down below all you roofers out there. You know, roofers are always willing to give you their opinion. Let us know what you think the best thing would be. Give us a thumbs up and we'll try to answer all the comments. You're going to answer everybody, aren't you? I try to answer them as soon as possible. Sometimes I don't get to them extremely quickly, but I get to them as fast as I can. And Ronnie gets to some of them too. If it's a real long Pacific or whatever question, it'll be Ronnie answering. If you get a short one-liner answer, that's me. Me in the flesh. All right, folks. We try to answer all of them. So give us a thumbs up for filming it. Subscribe to the channel. 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