How to remove shingles to do a repair

hi my name is Gary Jones we're up here on the a3 tab shingled roof and I'm going to show you how to start removing these and then how to put them back one of the main things that you're going to need is a flat bar and very handy on the roof trying to do anything with without a flat bar is going to make your life a little harder and also a couple knives the hook blade which is good for cutting the shingles with the face up and then you have a straight blade that's used for cutting the backs of the shingles not on the top because those are it'll slide it across the granules it will blow your knife a lot quicker it's harder to use so hug blade on the face is the best one to use so let's get started so to start removing the shingles if you if you want to take this shingle out you have to go to shingles above and you have to pull these nails out so this is the one that we're wanting to take up so polygamy is up and it's it's cloudy day out it's clothes in the morning these shingles are in pretty bad shape so they're nice they're not sticking very well to the seal tabs of the shingles to this very easy you can see they're just looking up sticking it all again one take this one up you got to take these nails out now these are nailed to high hell they're supposed to be one inch above the cutout you get your flat bar up underneath raise a nail then raise the tab that's how well ahead just work right off can you have that in this here city the slide right out as you can tell Mel's up here did catch the top of the shingle here and over here over here is to highest I didn't catch the top just barely right there on the edge and again the nails supposed to be about one inch above the cutout and on the ends one inch up and one edge over that's a good nail pattern on steeper roofs where the shingles could slide the building codes and the manufacturer of the shingles may require you to put a nail on each side of the cutout so you have one here two here two here and then one the other end so let's take the next shingle out and these are put on a running bond line they're stepped over six inches if you have a 12-inch tab and as you can see here six inches this way six inches back and then fix inches over this way again and that's how they're put on so as you can tell this nails not catching the top supposed to catch the top of the shingles that way you have two rows of nails on a channel and supposed to be dependent minimum of four nails per shingle so some people lift this tab as you can see here there's not a nail there so that's called a three and four pattern yeah those are gonna gets three nails as I don't want to get four that's not the proper way to do it let's put these shingles back always try to use new nails we'll slide this up under here you want to line the shingles up and go on just a drop or go higher it's just it's not a good way to do it want your eye to be nice and neat about it so I've got an elder if I want to so we have four nails in that shingle and lining them up and that is over here will I have we're missing a nail so you want while you're here you have to put a nail right there make sure this end distill it up bill that can't forget this one that beer we had to pick nails out to get it in a well we won't go along and make sure your nail out these good just do a quick check make sure and once again you got your flat bore these are sold at the building supply hardware stores just about everybody carries these as you can see my my corners are rounded off when you buy them they're usually sharp and that'll cut into shingles this one's been used a lot and could get a grinder and just grind the sharp edges off I think you're just respect you got your utility knife with the hook blade and a utility knife just with a straight blade I like having two knives I don't have to to change a mouth change the blade out if you're just doing a repair to you know one knife where you can change the blades out that if you find this one's good for cutting felt paper and like say the backs of the shingles this one had just just mostly used just for cutting the face the shingle it just it just glides right through it not good for felt you know it's good for 90-pound and things like that so anything with a granules on it it works very well with so and that's it thank you for watching

Channel: Gary Jones

Views: 2,079,158

Rating: 4.8822765 out of 5

Keywords: shingles, roofing, roof repairs, repairs, roof work

Id: 8PX_noHwDxw

Length: 7min 18sec (438 seconds)

Published: Sat May 02 2009