Robert Allison wrote in
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Don Young wrote:
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Robert Allison wrote in
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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,

Does anything below your waist not hurt any more? :-)

I will tell you what I have on
my roof; nails.