Chad Fabry Posted May 25, 2012 Report Share Posted May 25, 2012 Excuse me, I think someone paved your roof? Click to Enlarge 59.79 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dirks Jr Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 Hey, who got lazy and slapped roll roofing in the middle of all that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 5 ? World record.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 I see those here a lot in the older Seattle neighborhoods. Cedar shingles used to be king here; hell, Kenmore was founded by a guy that started a shingle mill and got rich. It's not uncommon to find old bungalows here with comp roofs where the roof is sagging at center span; and then to go into an attic and find yourself looking at the underside of a cedar shingle cover over skip. It was once normal for roofers to cut back shingles at the perimeter of roofs, nail on some some 1 by 10 material and then roof over; but most roofers doing roof-overs here omitted the 1 by 10 banding step and just went over those covers with comp again and again. Chad, was that cover slipping? I've had them where there were so many layers that the roofing nails used never penetrated to the cedar deck and were only hitting previous layers of asphalt. When that happens, gravity takes over and the covers start to sag and slip. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark P Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 Here is one from a few years back. It had the cedar shingles / shake on the bottom with about 6 or 7 layers of asphalt on top. Click to Enlarge 54.25 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 Here is one from a few years back. It had the cedar shingles / shake on the bottom with about 6 or 7 layers of asphalt on top. Click to Enlarge 54.25?KB I had one like that several years ago. I was able to push a 2" roofing nail all the way down with just my thumb and still didn't hit the cedar shingles beneath it. Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bain Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 Here is one from a few years back. It had the cedar shingles / shake on the bottom with about 6 or 7 layers of asphalt on top. Click to Enlarge 54.25?KB Is that Thing, from the Munsters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillip Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 You have to use 16 penny nails to hold down the shingles. At lest that what they used on one we torn off about 20 years ago 5 layer on top of the wood shingles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted May 27, 2012 Report Share Posted May 27, 2012 Marc, That beats everything I have seen, except for one house that had 5" crown mold turned upside down, as horizontal decking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Moore Posted May 27, 2012 Report Share Posted May 27, 2012 My house came with 2 layers (at least) of 3-tab over cedar shingles. During the first 14+ years we would occasionally lose a section of shingles on the weather side slopes to wind storms, which resulted in some leaks and various repairs...some of them very, very stop-gap. At one point you could actually see the silver repair tape from space! Because we knew we were eventually going to remodel, we held off until then...with fingers crossed every time the wind blew hard. The picture is from 2006 when the whole roof finally got replaced during the remodel. Hard working crew! Click to Enlarge 69.35 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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