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This is Steve Maxwell from Bailey Line Road
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And I've got a bit of a job you might want to join me on. Right up there, near the peak, just to the right of the skylight
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I lost some shingles. We had a lot of strong wind the other day
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This is the first shingles that have ever come off this roof since it was re-shingled about six or seven years ago
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Get to see what I'm going to do to weave some new shingles into that damaged zone
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So let's head on up there. Lots of fun
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These things always seem to happen when it's below freezing too. Lucky for me, this happened close to the skylight
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So my son Robert can hand me tools and stuff. So let's get started, Robert
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I think the first thing... Oh, look at that. These never, these never sealed down
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See, these ones I can't lift up. The tar has gripped them, but for some reason not here
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That's why it went bad. I'll lock these shingles down with some tar and caulking tubes
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It's great stuff for repairs like this. But first, we need to, we need to make a square cut
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See this shingle here? It's torn. That's no good. We need a straight cut
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It doesn't really matter where we do it. As long as it doesn't line up with a seam anywhere
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A replacement shingle is as good as any for marking that square. Tin snips are great for cutting shingles like this
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Especially this kind of shingle. Right here, it's got a double layer
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So it's kind of hard to cut any other way. Now, I can only cut so high
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And I've got some nails to deal with. This is a great tool
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Cat's Paw Pry Bar. I'm going to sneak in and I'm going to lift some nails that are
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holding this, this piece that I want to get rid of. So that's all done
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Now, I need to cut this one off a little bit over. We don't have our seams aligned
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I like to put underlay under everything. These are high-quality shingles. They're not that old
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It's not inconceivable that this sort of thing can happen, you know, fairly frequently
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If it was pouring rain right now and I couldn't get to this job, the underlay you see here would protect the house
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So that's why it's pretty important. This is the bit I want to get rid of
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And it goes up about to about here. So what's holding it in now
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What's holding it in now are the nails that I can see going
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through this course of shingles. So those are the ones I need to pull out
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And you might think, well, if you pull those nails out, then what's going to hold this shingle on
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Well, if I lift it up when I'm done, as you'll see, when I lift
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it up, I can re-drive those nails. And in those situations where I can't re-drive a nail, I'm going
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to use some roofing tar in a caulking tube and in a couple
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of hours, that's going to be nice and hard, just as secure
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as a nail. So I've trimmed these out nice and even and I'm going to start
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my repair from the bottom up. As it turns out, this scrap of shingle is just, well, I have
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to trim it a bit. It's a little bit too long, but it's going to go in there
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So get the snips out again. Now we've got just one more piece to put in and it goes from
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here to here. And then I'm going to seal down these loose shingles, the shingles
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that should have sealed when the roof was installed. So this sort of thing doesn't happen again, but just a repeat
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of the same process as you'll see. Okay, so that repair is basically complete and now I'm going
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to do the tar application, which is very important because if I don't, we get another wind
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That's just going to, I'm going to be up here again and I don't want to be. So that tarring is very important in a situation like this
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I just want to explain how vital a setup like this is for working
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on this deep roof. This roof is almost 45 degrees from horizontal and yet I can
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work here. I don't have to set up any roof jacks or anything like that
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I'm basically just hanging here in the rope. This is a harness, pretty comfortable as these things go
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And this thing here is called a shunt and see the rope goes
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through here and my weight is on this lever and inside. Can you see in there inside in there
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Part of this lever is pinching the rope against the body of
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this with my weight, which means I'm on here. If I want to go down, I have to take the weight off, relieve
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the lever pressure a bit and then let the spring grab. And if I want to go up, I just pull it that way
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So really handy. Not only does it make it safe, safer, but it allows me to work
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So it's not just a safety thing
