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How to Replace Cobblestone Shingles

How to Replace Asphalt Shingles

Uncomplicated Instructions to Remove and Replace Cobblestone Shingles on Your Roof.

Cobblestone shingle roofs, when properly installed, typically require very niggling maintenance — one of the main benefits of a shingle roof. However, there may be the odd occasion where a little gear up is needed, and, fortunately, asphalt shingles can easily be removed and replaced in simply seven steps. Even though the procedure is straightforward, IKO recommends that simply properly trained professional covering contractors appoint in the shingling or repairing of roofs.

Step I – Break the seal on the target shingle.

The images below depict Sedona Dynasty with ArmourZone shingles.

In the photo below, the "target" shingle (perhaps it needs replacement due to impairment from a falling object or roof pests) is located. (In these photos nosotros've marked it with black spots.)
The starting time footstep obviously requires the removal of the nails holding that shingle to the roof deck. To access the nails, the shingle will demand to exist lifted, merely information technology is likely bonded to the shingle below by the shingles' asphalt sealant spots. Although this sealant bond is quite strong (stiff enough for the shingles to resist wind uplift), it tin be broken past sliding a flat pry bar carefully under the target shingle's edge.
This sealant separation is best done in absurd weather, as the sealant bond will be more easily sheared by the pry bar when cool — in hotter weather, the sealant will be more gooey and tenacious, and harder to separate cleanly.

A word of circumspection: In cooler atmospheric condition, the shingles will exist stiffer than in warmer weather. Exercise care to avoid distorting the shingles more than than necessary.

Step One – Break the seal on the target shingle

Pace 2 – Break the adjacent seals.

Once the sealant bond is broken on the target shingle, the aforementioned bond volition need to be broken on the overlying shingle or shingles, so they can be gently lifted to expose the nails in the target shingle. (Since shingles in successive courses up the roof are installed offset from the courses below, yous may demand to perform that stride on a shingle to the correct or left of the overlying shingle also).

Step Two – Break the adjacent seals

Step Three – Remove the nails.

Sometimes the nails can exist removed by directly admission, but often trying to pry out the nails from higher up the shingle tin can damage the shingle's granular surface. It is therefore better to lift the shingle AND the nail at the same time, so you lot'll need to access the lesser of the target shingle.

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

Step Three – Remove the nails

Nail IN THE TARGET SHINGLE

Step Four – Remove the adjacent nails.

Once all 4 nails accept been pried upwardly and removed from the target shingle, you'll notice you still won't be able to remove it. That'due south because the nails in the shingles higher up it will also exist penetrating the upper edge of the target shingle. This fact, that each shingle on a roof is really held in place with TWO rows of nails, is a key factor in the overall roof arrangement's wind resistance.
And then, you'll need to perform the aforementioned sealant bond-breaking step on the shingles two courses above the target shingle as well, and and so remove the nails from the shingles in the grade immediately above the target shingle.

roofing nail pulled out from shingle

Boom REMOVAL FROM OVERLYING SHINGLE

Step Five – Out with the old shingle.

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

shingle being removed from roof

Step 6 – In with the new shingle.

Accept the new replacement shingle (which must be the same size equally the one-time i), and slide information technology into position. Smash information technology into place and then re-nail the overlying shingles wherever other nails take been previously removed.

shingle being inserted into roof for replacement

roofing nail being hammered through shingle during installation

Pace 7 – Reseal the shingles.

Lastly, remember breaking all those shingle-to-shingle sealant bonds? Well, although the new roof shingle volition probable seal to adjacent shingles in time with enough sun warmth, it is recommended to manually seal the new shingle in place now. Merely utilize three pocket-size spots of cobblestone plastic roof cement under the new shingle's tabs, evenly spaced along the shingle length, and press the shingle flat down into place.
Seal downwards any surrounding shingles that may have had their sealant bond separated in the same mode. This ensures the roof's wind resistance will go along as before, uninterrupted.

spot of asphalt plastic cement being applied to a shingle

roof worker holding down laminated shingles

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