Fortunately it's on the back porch, but still shouldn't be happening. I've had several maintenance contractors look at the roof and they report that they don't see anything wrong and are mystified why the roof is leaking when we get an extended or heavy rainfall. I guess if they can't see a problem, they can't fix it, only to try to re-shingle the low sloping roof (see attached photo of the problem area); and even then they can't guarantee that will solve the problem. I wanted to know if getting a can of car undercarriage sealant (similar to the Flex Seal advertised on TV) and spraying it over where the water is coming in would be a good "quick fix"?

Totally out of my area of expertise but I have used Flex Seal on a motorhome and it has worked to fix a leak, for now. The porch area on our home leaked around the chimney but only when the rain was coming from a certain direction. When we had the roof replaced about 10 years ago the contractor added flashing to that area and we haven't had any leaks.

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Weakest Link,
Is it leaking between the brick and the roof? I don't see an flashing in the picture. Though I suppose the darker red might be flashing instead of just wet bricks.

See this article for proper flashing: http://www.hometips.com/how-it...s/roof-flashing.html

I wouldn't use the spray stuff as it is a temporary fix at best.

One of the contractors that looked at the roof said that dark red was flashing and he's never seen flashing like that before. It is "alligatored" now. It's always been there, even when my patents bought the house in 1975, and how long it was there before that - who can say? (see close-up of flashing)

Weakest Link,
I'd probably look to do a tear off and complete re-roof installing proper flashing as outlined in the article I linked above.

I would NOT shingle over this mess, I'd tear it off to the bare decking and start over.