Roofing repair: DIY
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Roofing Repair : DIY
Roofing just like AC is one of the other dreaded DIY job. It's very expensive to repair (roofs costing > $20K to replace, usually $50K or so to get a good roof). Again you are dependent on the contractor to do a good job, and it's big money. A lot of companies may charge you less, but do shabby work with low quality material. You can never go just based on price. Also, there is no way to know the kind of work that the Roofing Company did. Just like a AC repair, you will come to know about the quality of their work few years down the line.
There are lot of scalpers who will go home to home advertising "free roof inspections", and will immediately point to a lot of hail damage and other damages to the roof. Even for newly built houses, they will find "roof damage" and insist on fling a claim with your insurance. They will also say that they will cover your deductible, so that your out of pocket cost for replacing the roof is going to be $0. I never believe these guys. Most of the times, insurance won't even approve the replacement of roof. May be these scalpers are able to have a 10% success rate, but that's good enough for their business. Also, since they aren't charging you any money, they will have to resort lowest quality material and shabby workmanship to still make a profit. Roof is an expensive repair, and if you aren't careful, ou might end up with a roof, which is worse than what was there before :(
Repairing a singlr damaged shingle: Remeber that shingles are put in overlapping layers, where one 3 ft shingle has 2 shingles on top in a layerd fashion. We have 4-6 nails on our damaged shingle right under the first shingle on top of it, and then another 4-6 nails on our damaged shingle right under the second shingle on top of it. Only when we remove both layers of nails (Total 8-12 nails), we can remove the damaged shingle.
Vid on replacing single architectural shingle => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1lXsXM2E4c