How to remove shingles to do a repair

Hi, my name is Gary Jones, we're here on a three tab shingle roof and I'm going to show you how to start removing them and then how to put them back on. One of the main things you will need is a flat bar and very useful on the roof, trying to do anything without a flat bar will make your life a little more difficult and also a couple of knives, a hook blade which is good for cut, cut the

shingles

face up and then you have a straight blade that you use to cut the back of the

shingles

, not on the top because it will just slide through the granules, it will dull the knife much faster, it's harder to use, so a hook blade on the face is the best to use, so let's start, to start removing the shingles, if you want to

remove

this shingle, you have to go two shingles higher and you have to take out these nails, so this is the one I'm wanting to lift them up, so these are up and it's a cloudy day, it's cold, it's the morning.

These shingles are in pretty bad shape, so no, they are not sticking very well to the sealing tabs on the shingles. uh so this is going to be really easy you can see they're just lifting up and they're not sticking at all so again I want to pull this one out you have to pull these nails out now they're nailed too high they're only supposed to be one above of the cut. along, you put your flat bar underneath, you lift a nail, then you lift the tab, you pull the nail out, that head just broke off, so we have that one loose and down here, pull it out and watch it slide out, as you can see.

Nails up here. it caught the top of the shingle here and here over here it was too high so it didn't catch the top just right there on the edge um and again the nail is supposed to be about 1 inch above the cut and on the ends one up and one up, that's a good nail pattern on steeper roofs where the shingles could slide. Building codes and the shingle manufacturer require that you drive a nail on each side of the cutout, so you have one here. two here, two here and then one on the other end, so let's take out the next shingle and these are placed in a continuous seam line, they go over 6 inches because you have a 12 inch tab and as you can see here , 6 inches. this way 6 inches back then 6 inches up this way again and this is how they are placed so you can see this The nails don't catch the top they are supposed to catch the top of the shingles that way you have two rows of nails each shangle and it's supposed to have a minimum of four nails per shangle, so some people lift this tab, as you can see here, there's not a nail there, so that's called three and four pattern, yeah, this fish gets three nails, this one will get four um That's not the right way to do it, so let's put these tiles back up.

Always try to use new nails. We'll slide it down here. Now you want to align the shingles. You don't want this to fall or rise any further. It's just It's not a good way to do it, you want to try to be nice and neat, so I've got a nail there about one up, so we've got four nails on that shingle, slide this one back lining them up in a T and notice. Over here we just have, we're missing one NA, so while you're here, go ahead and put a nail right there, make sure this end is still up.

Nail you can't forget this one up here, we're headed to take the nails. Go out to get it out so you want to go ahead and make sure you nail all of this down that's good just do a quick check make sure and once again you have your flat bar they are sold at building supply hardware stores uh almost everyone wears these, um. As you can see, my corners are rounded when you buy them, they are usually sharp and cut into shingles. This one has been used a lot and you could get a grinder and just polish the edges of Shar.

I think it just works better, you have your knife with the hook blade and then another knife with just a straight blade. I like having two knives, I don't have to change them, change a blade, um, if you're just doing a

repair

or two, you know, a knife where you can change the blades, that's fine, this one is good for cutting felt paper and , like I say, the back of the shingles, this one is mainly used just to cut the face of the shingles, uh. it just slides through it, it's not good for felt, you know, it's good for 90lb and stuff like that, anything with granules works great and that's it, thanks for looking.