On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:19:22 -0800 (PST), Harry K
wrote:

On Jan 8, 10:59*am, Paul wrote:
I have been up on my roof and have seen a couple of spots where the
shingles don't actually touch--I can see the paper that normally lies
underneath the shingles. *Now I have not noticed any leaking or
anything like that, but I'm thinking that an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure.

My options a I do have some leftover shingles in the garage, that
are much wider than these gaps. *I also have a few bits and pieces of
older shingles that have come off the roof, that I have kept for
situations like this. *Also, in the past, I have worked with Henry's
roof cement, a black sticky tar-like substance.

I'm wondering what would be the best product to fill in gaps that are
probably less than an inch wide, maybe 4-5 inches long. *I'd rather
not use a whole, new shingle if I can avoid it. *Are older ones that
have split up no longer good--would they be more likely to split up
again?

The roofing job was either extremely old or the installers don't know
anything about roofing. Being able to see tarpaper anywhere on a roof
is a new one on me, never heard of anything except a totally worn out
roof where that ws possible.

Bite the bullet and get a new roof. It is a case of pay it now or pay
it in the very near future. No amount of patching is going to hold
for long.

Spread the word around for people not to use whatever outfit did the
roofing.
Harry K

Biting a bullet is bad advice. Sometimes they fire off and you could
end up killing an innocent animal like a coon or sumptin.

I gots sum roof patchin education. If roof leaks, git sum duck tape.
Bout 100 rolls, start the tape on the bottom of roof and go up over
the top and back down the udder side. Cut off roll and do dis again
and again. Bee sure to overlap tape by a quarder or half inch each
time. You gots to cover da whole roof like dis. When ya done, gets
yoself a 12 pack, git naked, and sit on da lawn an git drunk while
looking at your new cool lookin silver roof.

Optional: You kin put da tape the udder way on roof. Start on north
side of house and take tape to south side. If roof goes east and
west, you probably need to get a house mover to turn the house or just
write "north" on the west end of the house and "south" on the udder
end before you start da tape. Remember tape from bottom up, not top
down or you got leaks.

Caution: Roof must be dry. Do not use duck tape when its raining or
snowin. Rain an snow means it a day ta git drunk, not work. Also do
not fix roof during hurricanes or tornadoes cuz yo ladder mite fall
down. If you gots holez in roof, dont step on them. Nail an ol board
over them before using duck tape.

Better idea: Git yo ol lady to do the tape while you kill a 12 pack.

Remember: Duck tape will fix anything, except a broken duck.

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