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

Joe · 2004-11-21T20:53:52+00:00

Putting on new shingles - IKO brand, Chateau type, single (1) tab,architectural or "designer" style, 100% asphalt (not fiberglass).On the back of each shingle is 3 strips (running the full length ofthe shingle) near the top, the bottom, and the center. The strips aresome sort of shiny black tar, about 1" wide (but not very thick). Twoof these strips are solid, and one is intermittent (like a dashed line- - -).The two solid strips are covered by what seems like a very thin,transparent release strip made of plastic. This strip resembles"saran wrap" except it's more "crinkly" when you peel it off andhandle it.These black tar strips seem to function as a way to bond or seal theshingles together once they're nailed down and have been heated by thesun. The release strip would function to prevent the shingles frombonding to each other while bundled.What I don't understand is that roofers don't seem to peel the releasestrips off the shingles before they nail them down (I admit that itseems to take as much time to pick away and peel these release stripsoff the shingles as it does to nail the shingles down).So, if the purpose of the black tar strips is to help the layers stickto each other, then how can the tar strips function if the releasestrips are NOT removed from each shingle?The instructions, diagrams, and warnings printed on the wrappers ofthe shingles say nothing about the black tar strip or the membranestrip that covers them.Should I peel these strips off before the roofers nail them down?

Nov 21, 2004 34 Replies

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John Willis 21 years ago

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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R&D 21 years ago

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Tom 21 years ago

Sigh.... Work at your leisure!

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Nehmo Sergheyev 21 years ago

- R&D -

- Nehmo - Please link.

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Stephanperi49 10 years ago

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..

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hrhofmann 10 years ago

Has anything changed in the 12 years since the OP?

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gfretwell 10 years ago

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

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trader_4 10 years ago

The poster came from the HomeOwnersHub portal.

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gfretwell 10 years ago

Isn't that a google spawn?

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Stormin Mormon 10 years ago

More Mexican roofers in the USA.

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Stormin Mormon 10 years ago

Most likely reading off Google archives?

See you all in twelve years.

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trader_4 10 years ago

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.

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Scott 9 years ago

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.

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