The offices under this curved glass roof had been getting wet for years. The drops of water usually came down days after the rain — not surprising, given the height of the brick wall above, a likely water reservoir. I inspected the flashings as well as I could from the ground and began to develop some theories about the sources of the leaks.
I did some controlled testing, but ultimately we had to rent a bucket truck and do some deconstruction to home in on all of the problems. View the slideshow to see what we found and how -- with the help of a roofer -- we fixed them all. The drawing below provides some important clue