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How to throw water away from the building and look professionally done?
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My first thought is a leader box and downspout to catch the water and keep it off the wall. That's truly a bad design.
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I recall previous discussions over 'dead valleys' which looks like what you got there. A search of the forums for dead valley may help.
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Looks like all the roof drainage runs right to the wall so if your not going to have a different roof pitch added sort of to bring the drainage point up higher then you need to use all the protection you can get for the existing structure,get some Azek for trim boards install ice and water barrier or equivelent on the wall after stripping the existing siding off prime all sides of clapboards with several coats of paint if necessary and make sure all is properly step flashed.It is also possible to put a rain diverta in place its nothing more then an upside down dripedge nailed to the roof at an angle diverting the water to another area.
I'd build a saddle in that dead valley. I'd start with a minimum of 12" of horizontal roof where it appears that you've got galvanized flashing now. And slope it as far up the roof as you can get (which doesn't look like much). And hopefully you'll achieve a minimum 4/12 pitch (hopefulley more) on your saddle. Then I'd run ice and snow membrane on the saddle, in the new valley, and maybe 12" up the wall. Then I would reflash and reroof. Essentially with this you no longer have a dead valley and you've relocated the valley 12" away from the wall.
Good luck,
John
J.R. Lazaro Builders, Inc.
Indianapolis, In.