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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, well, 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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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. I can only cut so high
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And I've got something else to deal with. This is a great tool, Katz Paw Pry Bar
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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
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They're not that old. It's not inconceivable that this sort of thing can happen, you know
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fairly frequently. If it was pouring rain right now and I couldn't get to this job
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the underlay you see here would protect the house. So that's why it's pretty important
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This is the bit I want to get rid of. And it goes up about to about here
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So what's holding it in now? What's holding it in now are the nails that I can see going through
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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
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going to hold this shingle on? Well, if I lift it up when I'm done, as you'll see, when I lift it
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up, I can re-drive those nails. And in those situations where I can't re-drive a nail, I'm going to
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use some roofing tar in a caulking tube. And in a couple of hours, that's going to be nice and hard, just
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as secure 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 to
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trim it a bit. It's a little bit too long, but it's going to go in there
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So I'll just get the snips out again. Now we've got just one more piece to put in, and it goes from here
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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
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of thing doesn't happen again. Just a repeat of the same process, as you'll see
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Okay, so that repair is basically complete. And now I'm going to do the tar application, which is very important
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because if I don't, we get another wind. That's just going to, I'm going to be up here again, and I don't want
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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 on
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a steep roof. This roof is almost 45 degrees from horizontal, and yet I can work here
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I don't have to set up any roof jacks or anything like that. I'm basically just hanging here on the rope
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This is a harness, pretty comfortable as these things go. And this thing here is called a shunt
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And see, the rope goes through here and my weight is on this lever
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And inside, can you see in there, inside in there? Part of this lever is pinching the rope against the body of this
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with my weight, which means I'm on here. If I want to go down, I have to take the weight off, relieve the
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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
