Use common sense safety precautions and make sure you can.
Replacing vent stack boot on roof.
Obtain another rubber seal.
Perma boot costs 16 to 20.
Now it is time to work on the roof.
A gasket less two piece pipe boot repair system designed to repair the leak around the vent pipes that penetrate the roof.
The best way for a do it yourselfer to repair a roof boot is to seal the existing boot and apply a new rain and repair pipe collar.
Step 1 clean pipe and boot.
The collar and sleeve looks like the new construction version without the roof flange slides over the plumbing vent pipe and damaged boot flashing.
Carefully pry up the shingles around the roof jack using a flat pry bar.
Remove any roofing nails and slide out the shingles.
Easy installation and no tools required.
Works for any size pipe.
Vent pipe rubber boot repair step 1.
Existing pipe boot repair and preventative maintenance the perma boot is a gasket less two piece pipe boot repair system designed to permanently repair the most common type of roof leak the leak around the vent pipes that penetrate your roof.
To replace a damaged roof vent jack on your home.
Make sure you need a new boot may just need a bit of bitumastic caulk if it is leaking a bit at the duct contact as they commonly do as the rubber gets older.
Slides over the existing roof vent boot preventing future leaks.
I purchased a plastic flashing assembly from the local home improvement store.
Figuring that the rubber collar on the new flashing may split before it s time to strip and replace the roof shingles another 20 years hopefully.
The bell shaped base encloses around the dome of the original boot flashing and sheds water around it.
The perma boot can also be used as a very effective preventative maintenance product to guard.
In simplest terms a new vent pipe boot flashing is slid over the top of the existing one and the top edge of the pan is lapped beneath the overlying shingle course.
They also make a boot flashing repair version.
Slide a new roof jack sized to fit your vent pipe.
Video turorial on how to change out a plumbing vent boot.
You will need only a few materials and they will all be available at your local home improvement store.
There s no need to lace the flashing pan into the shingles since the boot and bell of the new flashing will shed water around the damaged part of the old one.