Do I Need a New Roof 3

Hi, I'm Tim Carter from Ask the Builder.com

And you know what? Let's take a look at a third roof. And I think this one will be fascinating for you to look at

It's going to be a little tougher for you to figure out what to do in this case. Let's take a look right now

Okay, look at this roof here. Yep, see all of these missing granules at the edges of these shingles

and you can see up above there. The shingles curled a little bit

We'll get a little closer here. You can actually see there a nailhead

And you can see missing granules. And you can actually see right here. Look at all the exposed felt paper

This is how the shingles are made. You can see it here. All along here, we've got exposed felt paper

Even here, right in the middle of this shingle right here, look at that

See, there's missing granules. Okay, what do you think? Well, I'll tell you what, this is a 30-year shingle

It's rated for 30 years. It's a very heavy-duty laminated shingle. And when I say laminated, that's because, see right here, this is part of a shingle

but this tab is glued on top of this. one. So this part here is actually two shingles thick. And then, of course, it overlaps the shingle

here. This shingle down here actually goes way up underneath this one. So you have lots of roofing

that's protecting the house. But this is a 30-year shingle, guaranteed, and it's only about 12 years old

So you wondering why are we seeing damage like this Well I tell you why And look at this one See all the felt paper on that one that exposed Well this particular roof it in the northeast in New Hampshire

gets a lot of snow and ice on it here at the lower edge of the roof, and that's where we're at. We're down near the gutter line

You can see, here's the gutter. And the missing granules were caused by ice damage

So this particular roof, especially if you could look up way up high

higher on the roof, and you really can't see it from here, but you don't see any of that damage

The shingles up here look really, really good. And in my opinion, this roof here does not need to be replaced, even though you're seeing

damage like this, that doesn't mean that the roof is leaking. You know, the only place that you might have a leak sort of happen is actually right here

where you see that exposed nailhead. So this needs to have a little piece of flashing slit up underneath here

that extends, a piece of metal that extends from here to here between my finger and my thumb

and it goes all the way up and it slides up about underneath here so that it fills this gap

And that way any water coming from down the roof will ride over the flashing

it won't have a chance to get to this nail, and then the water will exit right about here

So that's how you fix that nail. Don't try to put any roofing cement on top of that

That'll just fall apart in a few years. It's that simple. All right, so there you have it

So that was a tough one. You can see that you just have to use a little bit of common sense

You have to know a little bit about shingles. But there are roofers that would come out here

I guarantee you and tell this homeowner, oh, my goodness, you need a whole new roof

That would be thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars, when in fact they really don't

So I hope this helped you. and I hope you're going to be able to diagnose whether or not you need a new roof

I'm Tim Carter for Ask the Builder.com