Roof Wood Repair

Pull down to remove the old soffit.

Roof wood repair.

Roofing professionals should handle any large or complicated jobs. This video shows from start to finish the repair of rotted endbeams on a house using the endrot system. Once you repair the hole in the roof plywood you need to seal up the seams and recover the roof. A shingle that has lifted from the roof can simply be renailed down and the nailheads sealed with roofing cement.

Hold onto the old shingle mold if it looks to be in good shape. Begin by removing the shingles down to the wood sheathing and slip a strip of adhesive ice and water barrier available where roofing repair products are sold under the soffit main roof joint. Depending on how the roofs join you may have to cut a slot to work it in far enough. Repair a split shingle by closing the gap between the two pieces nailing them to the roof deck and sealing the crack and nailheads with roofing cement.

885 tropi cool 100 silicone seam and repair roof sealant. The national average roof repair cost is 891 with most homeowners spending between 354 and 1 441 most common small roof repairs cost between 150 and 400 labor runs around 45 to 75 per hour. Lay felt paper onto the roof overlapping the existing paper to get good coverage. Cracked warped missing or broken shingles need to be replaced.

Soffit and fascia repair 1. Cover the seams between the old and new decking with bitumen tape. Remove weak spongy wood preserve and protect wood wi. Staple it to the roof decking or nail it with plastic capped roofing nails.

Be careful not to damage any nearby roof shingles or flashing. If it comes off without splitting reuse it later. Starting at one corner of the roof wedge a pry bar into the narrow space at the top of the shingle mold the thin wooden strip that sits just below the shingles.