The honest answer about whether you need a new roof.

Where roofs actually leak

Almost never in the middle of a slope. Water finds the joints.

A leak in the ceiling is rarely above the stain. Water travels along decking and rafters before it finds a place to drop, which is why chasing the stain instead of the source is how a leak comes back three times.

• Flashing around chimneys, skylights and wall junctions
• Valleys where two slopes meet and carry the most water
• Pipe boots, which dry-rot years before the shingles do
• Nail pops that back out and lift the shingle above them
• Ice dams and gutter backups pushing water under the first course