Replacing A Damaged Shingle With A New One

December 2, 2009 by Scott Rodgers
Filed under Business

A damaged asphalt shingle disturbs the overall integrity of your roof setup and calls for a timely replacement. The leaks and the voids resulting due to these damaged shingles affect the affiliated roofing components as well.

Even a novice with a good supervision over his head and a right blend of required tools and supplies, can make the things work.

A pry bar tool has to be purchased before the commencement of the project. Make sure that the tool is a large and flat one which would add to it’s efficiency. The pry bar tool would do the actual job of going under the damaged asphalt shingle and nailing it out of the affiliated setup. In addition, a small-sized wooden bar would also be used during the course of action.

Also make way for a first-aid kit as the task is likely to cause minor nicks and scratches on your body. An eye-rinse solution and rolls of adhesive bandages are primarily constituted in your first-aid kit.

Take a ladder and rest it against the wall such that it reaches well to the top of the roof. Once you’re on the roof, attach yourself to a rope which in turn is tied to a ridge. This particular caution would prevent you from a free fall from the roof.

Kick off the actual task by tapping the pry bar under the damaged asphalt shingle in such a way that the business-end of the tool is inserted above the gap between tabs. Keep forcing the tool in until the concerned end of the pry bar centers on the nail of the shingle. Exert some downward force on the other end of the pry bar while the business-end holds the neck of the nail. Thereafter, place a wooden bar in the gap under the partially uprooted nail. This particular alteration renders a fulcrum setup to the task and allows the nail to be easily removed.

Remove all the other nails with the same method and pull out the damaged shingle from the setup. Replace the old asphalt shingle with a new one and nail it down well. Make sure that the new shingle has similar dimensions to the old one. Apply a moderate amount of roofing cement on the nails to bind them well to the shingle.

Put some cement in the gaps under the tabs that were altered during the detachment task and add final touch to the installation job.

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