Hey guys, good morning. This is Andre from the Roof Repair Specialist.
I want to take you on one of our job sites today in Arcadia.
So this is a job that we're replacing the roof on.
It's a single family residence.
We tore off two layers of old shingles already,
and we're in the process of installing new shingles here on the primary house.
And we've got a detached garage that we still haven't got to over there.
The plywood was in good condition.
We replaced a few of the pieces of plywood,
and you can actually see kind of where that was,
the new plywood will look a little newer.
And the pool was covered, so that was helpful.
You can see right there is where we've
installed the new plywood. You can see the new coloring, but the rest
of the plywood was in good condition, no need to replace it.
We've got our underlayment installed, and today we're in the process of
installing the shingles, we just started this morning.
So making pretty good progress already.
You can see the Owens Corning low profile vents,
these are pretty much like O'Hagin vents that get installed.
Now one thing we do is install ice and water shield around them to protect it.
And we pretty much improve the waterproofing around those areas.
Those are probably one of the most vulnerable areas of the roof,
vents, exhaust fans,
pipe penetrations, pipe flashing and stuff like that.
Around all those,
we always like to install the ice and water shield.
This chimney's gonna get new saddle flashing, actually, I think it's new
cricket around here. And new step flashing.
So we're going to re flash this chimney.
We've got a drip edge already installed underneath. It's always
important to remember you install your drip edge first, then your underlayment
on top of that. Keep in mind we're in Southern California in LA
so we don't install ice and water shield here at the edges because
we don't have ice and snow and snow dams and stuff like that.
So always take your underlayment all the way
to the edge of the drip edge.
We're gonna be installing all new flashings on here.
One thing you always want to make sure on the power lines:
be careful when you're working around them.
You want to be very cautious around them.
So anytime you have power lines hanging around, just be mindful of that.
We have our Owens Corning Deck Defense. We're installing Owens Corning Duration
shingles. We really like them because they have the Sure Nail Strips.
So that's I think one thing that differentiates Owens Corning a lot from
the rest of the other manufacturers, that Sure Nail Strip which really helps
the installers know exactly where to nail, and
it also helps the wind rating on those shingles.
You can see that we haven't installed the underlayment at the ridge.
And the reason for that
is we get the materials loaded, then we install underlayment.
So instead of moving all those materials, what we always do is just install the
rest of the roof. Then do the top section,
install underlayment, and stuff like that.
This is the garage.
So we're installing the shingles on the garage here today.
And you can see we're almost wrapped up with it.
So we've made good progress yesterday, we wrapped up the house.
So on those hips, the one thing we always like to do is overlap them.
So even though they are gonna get ridge caps and hip caps,
we still like to overlap and pretend like if ridge caps or hip
caps were are not being installed, this roof should still be watertight.
You can see here that we're installing those nails. You want those nails
really flush with the shingle. You want to be careful of overdriving nails.
Over driven nails can really lower the wind rating on your roof,
and really have shingles blow off a lot easier.
And here's pretty much the finished product. We've got our
shingles installed. We've got our shingles overlapping our drip edge about
half an inch, and we've got a little gap in the drip edge.
So if the customer decides to install gutters, they're always able to.
We've got all our flashings painted.
One thing we like to do,
which I don't think many other roofers do but I've seen it once in a while,
is the bottom of those flashing, we like to round off.
I think it looks better personally. And also, it
takes away those sharp corners so they're just
better to work with. You can see we've got our little cricket installed.
This is a custom fabricated, galvanized cricket.
The crickets are required
on chimneys over 30 inches. So it's a great way to divert water
on both sides. And we've got the step flashing here installed,
one with every shingle. So if you have any water that's going to be
around here, it's going to easily roll off around the chimney.
We're really happy with the way this roof turned out.
We've got these O'Hagins in,
which in my opinion, look a lot nicer than those old
half round dormer vents. We've got new Hip and Ridge shingles installed.
One thing you see here is a gap around
those O'Hagin vents, we've got a half inch gap, and that was actually
left intentionally, you want to leave enough of a gap
to have the water flow around. Same goes for the pipe flashings,
and all that. You can see that little gap, it's not a mistake,
that's done intentionally to allow the water to flow around those flashings
and not backup.
So overall, it was a successful project.
Happy to show you guys around.
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