How To Take Off Old Roof

Clean the roof with a push broom and remove or pound in any remaining fasteners.

How to take off old roof.

Staple felt every 6 to 8 inches. If you couldn t get the trash container close to the house throw the shingles onto a tarp on the ground. If you ve had old roofing stripped off about 10 000 nails came with it and most landed on your grass mulch and driveway. How to remove old flat roofing.

Make the pile on a flat area away from flowers and shrubs. Nail down loose roof sheathing to rafters. Besides being tripping hazards they can work through and damage the new shingles. Work from the top bottom and sides to save back muscles.

As the old roofing material piles up at the roof jacks carry it to the edge of the roof and toss it into the trash container below. Contractors have a tool that makes it easy to pick these up a giant magnet on wheels that they pass over the yard to grab the dropped fasteners so they don t cause any flat tires or injuries. Place a pitchfork flat garden shovel or shingle scraper under the shingle. Pry off old roof shingles with pitch fork.

Remove the old shingles with tear off shovels. Install a course along the snapped line then install succeeding courses using a guide or a snapped line. Pry the shingle from the roof. What to do if the old roof is not straight if the existing roof has wavy horizontal lines you can take out the waves by snapping a horizontal line 1 2 inch below the shingle bottoms of one course.

Flat roofing has some advantages but when it ages or falls into disrepair it can be troublesome. The nails in the shingle should come up with the shingle when you pry it off. Call for free estimates from roofing pros now. In this video this old house general contractor tom silva explains how to reshingle a roof steps.

Remove all of the shingles on the roof. Find a pre screened local roofing contractor. Cover roof deck with 30 pound felt underlayment.