Hi, I'm Tim Carter from MasterBuilder.com and I'm here at this little house just by
the lake here in New Hampshire that had some damage over the winter and I want you to look
at this. Check it out. Alright, see up there on the roof
See those puckered shingles? See the faded tar paper and you can even see over there the edge flashing
Well the question is, is it time for a new roof or do we have to, can we get by just
repairing this roof? Because you know what, that's going to save a lot of money if we can just do the repair job
Okay, so here's what we have to do. Let's look at the shingles that fell off the roof and that's going to help us make the
determination whether it's time to do a new roof or, you know what, maybe just get by
with a repair. Let's go look right now. Okay, here are the shingles on the ground that fell from the roof
Let's take a look at them and let's look really closely. So first of all, the shingles look to be in pretty good shape
You know, there's not a lot of granules missing. They're not brittle
I can still bend them. I mean look at this, I can bend and overall they look pretty good
You know, so what happened is that they were installed incorrectly. This is why they failed because this is where they were nailed
They were nailed way up high and in reality they should have been nailed down here low
And when you do it that way, you actually get two layers of nails, you know, two rows
of nails going to each shingle. So I can tell you that because these shingles are still pliable, they look really good
the shingles up on the roof are in great shape, so you can absolutely repair this roof
It's not time to replace it. So this homeowner is going to save a lot of money
So that's all you have to do. You just have to inspect the shingles and if that means kind of getting up on the roof
and looking in, do that too. But the point is, the shingles are in really pretty good shape
It's just the fact that the original installer kind of goofed up when he put the shingles
on and sadly, that may be the case for the rest of the shingles
Unfortunately, they may all have to be re-nailed. But the good news, you don't need to spend all the money on new shingles for this particular roof
I'm Tim Carter for askthebuilder.com