Tracing water ingress in a Hume corridor home

In short: Roof drainage is where most of these start, and the damage appears a long way from the cause.

The stain is not the problem

Water travels. Where it shows is rarely where it entered, which is why describing the damage is useless.

Roof drainage first

A spreader discharging in the wrong place or a blocked valley puts water somewhere it was never meant to go.

Then the covering

Cracked and broken tiles, flashings and capping grading.

Then the framing

Accessible roof timber beneath the affected area, checked for damage that has already happened.

What the report gives you

The entry point, the cause and what the standard requires, so the builder has something to answer.

Written by our local inspection team from work carried out in Mickleham. Licensed building practitioners.