How To Remove Ice Shield From Roof

And often shingles stick to the ice shield and that can easily add hours if not days to the tear off project.

How to remove ice shield from roof.

Good luck getting the shingles off the i w. With that said i m pulling back a portion of my roof to tie a new roof into. This is great but ice shield also creates other problems for roof installers. I had a roof that was stripped and re shingled 22 years ago 1989.

It is a 4 year old roof with the ice and water shield on structural insulated panels outer layer is 3 4 osb so we are not able to simply replace the plywood we need to remove the i w and build a new roof system 8 above the existing one for circulation reasons. Ice and water shield re roof i was told by i w manufacture that u can only have 2 layers then u need to remove the plywood and start over. Open to any and all suggestions thanks. As anyone who has tried already knows it can be very difficult to remove shingles from ice shield.

By design ice shield adheres to the roof deck. Some work better removing the bulk of the shingles first leaving those who stick badly then peeling the ice shield off diagonally from one corner one or better two or three people pulling being careful not to back off the roof and one other person going along on the exposed surface with along handled driveway ice scraper like a mutt but. Hi my name is howard this is my first time using the forum. Removing ice and water shield for re roof.

I am going to replace my roof my question is do i try to remove the existing ice and water shield or just lay new ice and water shield over the old. Removing ice and watershield i wouldn t remove the shield if anything i d supplement it possibly by going over it. It s a fairly low slope roof 2 1 2 12 pitch with a southern exposure and it takes a real beating from the sun. I ve stripped a few roofs with i w and it s extremely difficult to get back to the original deck.