I find it interesting.

As a child, my dad bought a hundred-year-old colonial, and I lived through gutting it down to studs and putting it entirely back together.

I re-roofed that building, we did all the electric.

There was a, we were in the house about 18 months, we got doors for Christmas so we didn't have doors in our bedroom.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, our regular discussion with building

industry professionals.

This is the senior editor, Patrick McComb.

This is the second part of my two-part interview with Diami Plotkey,

senior project manager for roof services on Long Island, New York. You can hear the first part in

episode 290. You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Homebuilding

Podcast at finehomebuilding.com slash podcast. You can leave feedback and ask questions there too.

You've sent me photos of your spray rack that you use for testing or looking for leaks,

and it's a pretty cool setup. It looks like you made it in your garage. Can you tell me how it works

in the genesis of it? Why did you need this? Absolutely. Well, an experienced roofer

will be able to find

most leaks by doing an investigation.

By looking at things. By looking at things, exactly,

by doing a visual examination. They always begin by

you look inside, see where it's leaking, and then

go up to the roof and find the corresponding spot

and figure out how it's traveling. But there are times when a visual examination doesn't reveal enough or anything

at all. So historically, we've always done water tests, which can be as simple as taking a hose up

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