Remove tiles and slate by prying them up from the bottom which may cause them to break.
How to replace sheathing on roof.
I m halfway though sheeting the roof of my shipping container shop and already need to redo some of it.
Step 1 marking the work area.
Discard the roofing materials since you will install new ones later.
Estimate the extent of the damage.
Lay felt paper onto the roof overlapping the existing paper to get good coverage.
Staple it to the roof decking or nail it with plastic capped roofing nails.
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It will be impossible to know for sure how much of the roof decking has rot until your roofers can.
Cover the seams between the old and new decking with bitumen tape.
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Step 3 remove the roof sheathing.
Very rarely is a roof ever so bad that it needs to be totally and completely re sheathed.
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Step 2 accessing the roof sheathing.
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Once the nails detach grasp the shingles or tiles and pull them off.
Remove all of the shingles using a pry bar or a shingle ripper tool to detach the nails.
A typical instance where a roof will need all new decking is when a composition roof will be installed on a home that previously had cedar shakes or shingles installed.
Step 4 the new roof sheathing.
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Slide the sheet one rafter width over the end of the roof so the edge is centered on the next rafter offset one rafter spacing from the first piece of installed sheathing from the row below.