Do I Need a New Roof 1

Hi, I'm Tim Carter from AskTheBuilder.com, and I'm here at this little house that's by

a 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..

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, they, um

there not a lot of granules missing They not brittle I can still bend them I mean look at this I can bend And overall they look pretty good 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 go into 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 at them, 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 EssilBuilder.com