The most likely source of trouble is ice buildup on the edges of your roof.
Under the eaves of the roof is wet.
Eave detail for the exposed soffited and boxed in types of eaves includes air vents to prevent over heating during warm weather and condensation leading to rot during cool wet weather.
Athe water dripping from your soffit is a definite warning sign.
You re on the verge of having water come into your home.
Remove the gutters and roof flashing if needed.
The eaves may also protect a pathway around the building from the rain prevent erosion of the footings and reduce splatter on the wall from rain as it hits the ground.
With good venting air flows up through the soffit vent and along the underside of the roof into the attic.
Newer roofs typically have an ice and water barrier installed along the eaves where the dams typically form to prevent the water from leaking inside.
Roof deck is the roofing material that sits on top of the roof trusses.
This cools the attic in the summer and flushes out moisture in the winter.
A raked ceiling creates odd spaces but it also creates for some interesting advantages over standard wardrobes.
So is the idea that the cold roof is conducting heat out of the bottom chord of the truss where it meets the rafter at the eave and that the coldness is creeping down the truss away from the.
The primary function of the eaves is to keep rain water off the walls and to prevent the ingress of water at the junction where the roof meets the wall.
This will stop the rain getting under and causing roof leaking by wind driven rains.
Unscrew the gutters at the brackets then pull out the nails holding them in place and lower them down safely.
There are ice dam cables you can install on.
It began when we decided that we wanted a built in wardrobe under the rake ceiling in our attic.
Hemming the roof edges.
It mixes with attic air and flows out through roof vents or a ridge vent higher up.
The linked to article implies that the problem is not so much lack of room for insulation at the eaves but the presence of thermal bridges at the eaves.
It is quite possible that your roof doesn t actually have a leak but the wind driven rain can cause the sheathing to get wet inside and this may give the appearance that you have a leak when you haven t.
Most roof decking is made from sheets of plywood.
Water shield is the next roofing layer that creates a water proof barrier where ice or water can buildup near the roof eaves.
Eave flashing is installed under roofing material and wrapped over the edge of the eave to prevent wind and water damage.
In order to give yourself clear access to the eaves you may first need to detach the drainage structures covering them.
