If you have Amish around get them to price you a metal roof. We don't have them so the MA house got architectural shingles. They're fine and have a warranty long enough that I don't expect to ever replace them.
They're around the place in Maine so in a couple years we'll have them put on a roof. They rock up with a roll of metal and form it directly onto the roof so the panels stretch the whole length of the roof and are custom profiled to fit perfectly. A couple years ago I watched them roof a neighbor's garage in a day which would have been just a morning if they didn't have to strip the old shingles and make some repairs. They don't waste a motion... -Curt On Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 06:33:56 PM EDT, Allan Streib via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: I have a big roll of asphalt roofing (can't remember why I originally bought it) that I have used for patching up missing shingles. It's nice because you can unroll a piece that's big enough to cover what you need. Knock on wood, all the areas that I have patched with that are still OK. I use roofing tar/adhesive to glue it down, and roofing nails if I can tuck them under overlapping shingles. I'm probably close to needing a complete re-roof though. Not sure about going with asphalt shingles again, or metal or some sort of composite. I like the look of spanish tile but as the house was not originally framed for that I'm not sure the trusses would take the weight. However you can get "fake" spanish tile that is a composite and much lighter than actual clay tile. On Sun, Sep 10, 2023, at 16:10, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > Todays project was to replace several sections of shingles that were > blown off in the last couple of months high wind events. It’s a job > that is not rocket science but I hate dealing with. Been trying to get > somebody to give me a quite to fix it and/or the entire roof for a > couple of months, finally had a roofing company come out and I have yet > to see the quote. It’s now starting to leak so I tackled it myself. > It’s not that hard but takes a minute to future out what’s what as far > as what has to come out since your are starting in the middle of the > roof, and to peel back the good layers to get the replacement up under > without tearing the good ones up. I got a package of shingles from my > dads roof job. They left him probably 10 or more extra packages of them > from when he had his done. They are much lighter than mine but it’s on > the backside of the house where nobody will see it anyway. Ended up > having to replace 9 shingles in one spot and 3 in another. Also used > plenty of roofing adhesive to make sure the new ones and the layer > above are stuck down good and don’t catch the wind. > > Not a job I would care to do again. You couldn’t pay me to do that job > on a regular basis, > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
