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If you guessed a bullet hole, you are correct!!!
Have some water damage in my ceiling which I noticed back in 2011 and hired a general handyman to take care of a few things, including patching that. Well, he was unreliable but had reported he sealed the suspect area (popped out nail). I can do most stuff myself, it's often just a matter of time/schedule.
Last week I heard a drip in the same room during a recent rain storm. Roof is only 6 years old, house was built in 2007.
Today was a nice day, so I climbed up there and expected to find a popped nail, or a damaged shingle.
Sure enough, a nice .30 caliber sized hole, right through the shingle and OSB. Given the water damage going back a couple years, I'd say this dates back a few years. My guess is just a NY Eve celebratory angled handgun or rifle shot, a quarter mile away or something along those lines. Had enough punch to go through the roof, but not the ceiling (as far as I can tell).
My attic has terribly difficult access, but after fighting with the ladder and being a gymnast to get into the attic and into the small area to patch the hole... I used some liquid nails to cement some roofing felt against the inside of the hole, and a piece of 1x over that, then sealed it good with some liquid roofing tar... then used the liquid roofing tar to fill the hole and then adhere a piece of roofing paper to the exterior of the hole. Then a nice smooth liberal coating of roofing tar over the paper. Should work for a decade or so, until a new roof is needed.
I spent some time digging through the blown insulation to find the bullet but no luck. I had expected to quickly find a bullet, but the blown insulation is about 2' deep in that area, and it's like finding a penny in a snowbank. Sprayed the ants that had made a nest in the moldy ceiling area...
Between the discomfort of balancing on beams, and breathing in hot insulation dust, and bug spray, I aborted my search of the bullet... I was curious, but not that curious.
I live in a nice house in a middle class small-ish city, plagued with typical modern problems - poverty, drugs, desperation... but it also has just normal hard working middle class folks.
I never would have expected a bullet hole in my roof though.
If I garner more ambition I may go back up there to do a more thorough investigation for the bullet, it may have angled one way or the other...
Have some water damage in my ceiling which I noticed back in 2011 and hired a general handyman to take care of a few things, including patching that. Well, he was unreliable but had reported he sealed the suspect area (popped out nail). I can do most stuff myself, it's often just a matter of time/schedule.
Last week I heard a drip in the same room during a recent rain storm. Roof is only 6 years old, house was built in 2007.
Today was a nice day, so I climbed up there and expected to find a popped nail, or a damaged shingle.
Sure enough, a nice .30 caliber sized hole, right through the shingle and OSB. Given the water damage going back a couple years, I'd say this dates back a few years. My guess is just a NY Eve celebratory angled handgun or rifle shot, a quarter mile away or something along those lines. Had enough punch to go through the roof, but not the ceiling (as far as I can tell).
My attic has terribly difficult access, but after fighting with the ladder and being a gymnast to get into the attic and into the small area to patch the hole... I used some liquid nails to cement some roofing felt against the inside of the hole, and a piece of 1x over that, then sealed it good with some liquid roofing tar... then used the liquid roofing tar to fill the hole and then adhere a piece of roofing paper to the exterior of the hole. Then a nice smooth liberal coating of roofing tar over the paper. Should work for a decade or so, until a new roof is needed.
I spent some time digging through the blown insulation to find the bullet but no luck. I had expected to quickly find a bullet, but the blown insulation is about 2' deep in that area, and it's like finding a penny in a snowbank. Sprayed the ants that had made a nest in the moldy ceiling area...
Between the discomfort of balancing on beams, and breathing in hot insulation dust, and bug spray, I aborted my search of the bullet... I was curious, but not that curious.
I live in a nice house in a middle class small-ish city, plagued with typical modern problems - poverty, drugs, desperation... but it also has just normal hard working middle class folks.
I never would have expected a bullet hole in my roof though.
If I garner more ambition I may go back up there to do a more thorough investigation for the bullet, it may have angled one way or the other...
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