How to Replace a Roof Shingle (The RIGHT Way!)

Well, what we are doing here is a three tab

shingle

replace

ment. If it's something you're comfortable doing on your own, that's great, it sure could save you a few dollars instead of calling a

roof

er to fix the problem. Now, what we have. here is a broken tab this will happen in higher winds this is a three tab

shingle

it doesn't have a very high wind resistance rating so this is one of the most common calls we will get so this shingle here has a two three tab And how do I know that if we scrape this guy we can see that that's where the shingle ends, so what we're going to do is we can use a flat bar pry bar to get underneath just to break the seal. a strip of tar on the bottom row so we can break that seal and free the shingle a little more now that we have that, we're going to pull out the nails so you want to get under it, lift it up, push the shingle down and We can grab that nail and we're going to break that seal in the course above to find out that now that was blown out by the previous

roof

er, maybe he had his air compressor up too high, so once we break that seal we get to the next nail and again that one has also been blown out. been, let's pop that every now and then we're at the end of that tile you can see that now also put it in my tool belt and get it later now if you fall on the tile it's not going to come off because it's not just nailed here, but in this row up here there are nails that also hold a tile, so you will also have to go over the nails that hold that tile.

Still, we'll have to take them out for now, we're trying to be pretty careful because we can break the shingle if we're not careful, we're going to take these nails out and put one more over here, go underneath, pry. Push down on a shingle and you will be able to get those roofing nails out now as we have removed all the nails from that shingle which should come out pretty easily now the nails were in the tar line but they were also on the top of the shingle . Okay, now that we've got that shingle out of the way, we've got a new one here that we're going to slide

right

into place, so you're going to want to line it up with the other shingles, just stay.

There for now until we get some nails in, so we'll be careful when lifting them up, they're a little more pliable in the warmer climates, but in the cold you don't want to bend them too much, so we put our first nail lower than it actually is. they did, moreover, the tar line dipped a little bit, so we'll move it up third now and fourth now. We have also removed the nails from this top row that holds this shingle. so we'll go back to where we were that shingle and we'll also hit the top of this shingle, remembering to keep the nails up where they'll be seen, but low enough on the top of this shingle now, since this is where a shingle ends and it begins a new shingle, we need a nail there and also here there, we have it now, since they are not going to seal very well very quickly, I like to rub my corners like this, these are older and they are not going to adhere very Well, any Whatever you touched or disturbed, I'm going to take it down with roofing cement or elastomeric exterior caulk, whatever your preference.

Disturb this one too, so we'll leave it as it is, since it's not sealed. We will put up that foreign shingle and

replace

it. You can do it yourself. You'll save yourself quite a bit of money, but that's the roofing tutorial on how to replace a three-tab shingle.