How To Repair A Roof Shingle

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How to Supplant Asphalt Shingles

How to Replace Asphalt Shingles

Unproblematic Instructions to Remove and Replace Asphalt Shingles on Your Roof.

Cobblestone shingle roofs, when properly installed, typically require very little maintenance — i of the main benefits of a shingle roof. However, at that place may exist the odd occasion where a little fix is needed, and, fortunately, asphalt shingles tin easily exist removed and replaced in just 7 steps. Fifty-fifty though the procedure is straightforward, IKO recommends that only properly trained professional roofing contractors engage in the shingling or repairing of roofs.

Step One – Break the seal on the target shingle.

The images below describe Sedona Dynasty with ArmourZone shingles.

In the photograph below, the "target" shingle (perhaps it needs replacement due to harm from a falling object or roof pests) is located. (In these photos we've marked it with black spots.)
The first step plainly requires the removal of the nails holding that shingle to the roof deck. To access the nails, the shingle will need to exist lifted, but information technology is likely bonded to the shingle beneath past the shingles' asphalt sealant spots. Although this sealant bond is quite potent (strong enough for the shingles to resist wind uplift), information technology tin be broken by sliding a flat pry bar carefully under the target shingle's border.
This sealant separation is all-time done in cool conditions, as the sealant bond will be more easily sheared past the pry bar when cool — in hotter conditions, the sealant will be more gooey and tenacious, and harder to divide cleanly.

A word of caution: In cooler conditions, the shingles volition exist stiffer than in warmer conditions. Do care to avoid distorting the shingles more than necessary.

Step One – Break the seal on the target shingle

Step Two – Break the side by side seals.

One time the sealant bond is broken on the target shingle, the same bond volition need to be broken on the overlying shingle or shingles, and then they tin can be gently lifted to expose the nails in the target shingle. (Since shingles in successive courses up the roof are installed starting time from the courses below, you may demand to perform that step on a shingle to the right or left of the overlying shingle as well).

Step Two – Break the adjacent seals

Stride Three – Remove the nails.

Sometimes the nails can be removed past direct access, but often trying to pry out the nails from above the shingle can damage the shingle'southward granular surface. It is therefore ameliorate to lift the shingle AND the blast at the same fourth dimension, then you'll need to access the bottom of the target shingle.

Slide the pry bar upwardly tight to each nail area and pry upwards on the shingle, which will too lift the smash out of the deck. Lift all 4 nails out of the target shingle. (In the photo beneath we've shown this step at a roof edge for a clearer view.)

Step Three – Remove the nails

Blast IN THE TARGET SHINGLE

Pace Four – Remove the adjacent nails.

Once all four nails take been pried upwards and removed from the target shingle, you'll find you nevertheless won't exist able to remove it. That's because the nails in the shingles higher up it will also be penetrating the upper edge of the target shingle. This fact, that each shingle on a roof is actually held in identify with TWO rows of nails, is a key factor in the overall roof system's wind resistance.
So, you'll need to perform the same sealant bail-breaking step on the shingles two courses above the target shingle as well, and and so remove the nails from the shingles in the class immediately above the target shingle.

roofing nail pulled out from shingle

Nail REMOVAL FROM OVERLYING SHINGLE

Step V – Out with the sometime shingle.

At present that all the sealant bonds take been broken and all the nails have been removed, the target shingle should be loose, and tin be removed.

shingle being removed from roof

Pace Six – In with the new shingle.

Take the new replacement shingle (which must exist the same size every bit the one-time one), and slide information technology into position. Nail information technology into place and and so re-nail the overlying shingles wherever other nails have been previously removed.

shingle being inserted into roof for replacement

roofing nail being hammered through shingle during installation

Step Vii – Reseal the shingles.

Lastly, remember breaking all those shingle-to-shingle sealant bonds? Well, although the new roof shingle will probable seal to adjacent shingles in fourth dimension with enough sun warmth, it is recommended to manually seal the new shingle in place at present. Merely use three small spots of asphalt plastic roof cement under the new shingle's tabs, evenly spaced along the shingle length, and press the shingle flat down into place.
Seal down any surrounding shingles that may have had their sealant bond separated in the aforementioned fashion. This ensures the roof'southward wind resistance will keep as before, uninterrupted.

spot of asphalt plastic cement being applied to a shingle

roof worker holding down laminated shingles

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