Don Young wrote:
"Red Green" wrote in message
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Robert Allison wrote in news:Zm2sj.3301$qV2.155
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Jack W wrote:


have a strip of cellophane-like tape over the black adhesive.

That tape is simply there to keep the shingles separated while they are
in the bundle. You do not need to remove that strip and it has nothing
to do with the shingles blowing off.

I will bet that the shingles were installed with staples, right?


I want to see that answer too.

When I redid this house this summer some parts were nails and some
staples. The ones with staples you could get the corner of a section up
with the shingle rake, grab the corner with both hands and pull up a
whole section. That says something...

I have read this several times but there must be some different staple
systems. When I had my house and garage re-shingled the crew complained a
lot about how hard it was to get the stapled shingles off the garage.

Don Young

We have the same complaint from our roofers, but not for the reason you
are thinking. Shingles with nails are easier to remove because the demo
tools will hook the nails and they will come out cleanly, while the
staples have a tendency to pull out one leg of the staple, leaving
nothing for the shingle tool to grab. They then have to be pounded down
or removed with a pair of kleins or end cutters.

The shingles come off easily, the staples don't. While on a roof with
nails, the shingles often pull out the nails and the remaining nails can
be removed with the same tool.

Having done thousands of roof repairs, I will tell you what I have on my
roof; nails.

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Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX