RambleOnRose wrote:
Decided to pull out the inside ceiling and add cross support beams and seal the roof outside. (side note - I'm fairly certain the roof hasn't been sealed in ages....)
With the bottom of the metal roof now exposed on the inside,
This sounds like my experience. I was told I could walk around on the roof of our 4 year old former rental and I think a cross piece in the roof slipped or broke. I’m a “take-it-apart and see what’s going on” guy myself so I thought about taking off a sheet or two of ceiling near the leak in the cabover. I’m also a bit scared of taking in too much so I just opened the join between the two sheets so I could get my arm inside. It felt to me like the 2x2 cross piece was depressed. So I put some pieces of wood over it to partially eliminate the low point in the roof. Every year there was a leak on the cabover bed until I admitted the caulking wasn’t working. I scraped it off the join between the front cap and the main metal roof. Calked in again sparsely, then covered it with a 4 inch wide strip of Eternabond. Same for the vent over the bed. No more leaking.
