New roof shingles: Remove thin plastic strips on back of shingles before nailing down?

Nov 21, 2004 34 Replies

"John Willis" wrote

I think you know better than this John. If the OP felt compelled to remove the strips, then stack them back up. They would still stick together while out of the package.

Can you imagine going to a job, to find out a HomeOwner did this? Would you be livid or what?

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:56:07 GMT, "Cal" scribbled this interesting note:

Must have been a pretty small job...

Doing this to even just one pallet of shingles would take more than a day. Doing it to two, three, or more pallets? Like I said, this fellow must be in search of a new hobby!:~)

-- John Willis (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)

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replying to willshak, Stephanperi49 wrote: I had shingles sitting the the sun for years and finally used them.. They were not stuck together even aftet all that time.. So i do think that they also serve for that purpose..

Has anything changed in the 12 years since the OP?

Yes Google started giving people a portal to 12 year old posts.

The poster came from the HomeOwnersHub portal.

Isn't that a google spawn?

More Mexican roofers in the USA.

Most likely reading off Google archives?

See you all in twelve years.

I see no evidence that it's part of Google or has anything to do with Google. Just looks like a web portal that someone set up on their own.

replying to John Willis, Scott wrote: If your slow then yeah... Lazy people these days I swear. I did my 2 car detached garage in one day and I peeled off all of the tape.

The tape on shingles is not meant to be removed. Read the instructions.

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