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About Brad Zacharia
Expertise
All aspects of residential Roofing. This includes shingles and flat (low slope) roofs. I have knowledge in the installation as well as the design of roofs from an engineering standpoint.

Experience
I have been doing roofing for 40 years. This was my father's business and I took it over in 1980.

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I have written responses to artcles that I felt needed a response to and those responses have been published in roofing trade magazines.

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BSEE Drexel University
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Roofing - My roof has developed a leak its a very old roof so i would like to ask what to do


Expert: Brad Zacharia - 11/10/2009

Question
my roof started leaking rather badly and we can not afford to hire anyone to fix it at the moment

i have done a couple roofs before so i feel safe fixing it for them but i was wondering if there is anything i can do about the leak until they can afford all the shingles and other supplys needed to replace their roof

by the way it is a old house with asphalt shingles

Answer
When a shingle roof goes due to age it is usually hundreds of holes by then. If that's the case the only thing you could do is a tarp. If it was an individual leak you could look for the hole and try to patch it with some roofing cement. It wouldn't look good but that's not a factor in your situation.

Brad

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