How To Remove Roof Sheathing

Wedge the end of the pry bar.

How to remove roof sheathing.

Climb onto the roof and walk up to the roof peak. This video is showing one of many ways to tear off a roof with the sheathing. Remove the wood from the roof using the longer pry bar to assist you. Drive stakes into the ground at the corners of the house.

Framing tips vandam construction inc is licensed in utah for commercial and residential construction of any project size. It s important to know what kind of a substrate is underneath the wood shakes before removing. Be sure to like and subscribe in order to help me bring you more helpful videos. The roof sheathing needs to be cut in order to be removed.

Mike made his own tool or rather modified an existing one to do the job faster and with less mess. By starting at the peak and working toward the eaves you ll always. One way to remove the sheathing is to go at the nails with a cat s paw but that takes a lot of time and causes a lot of damage to the sheathing. This job required removing the lowest course of sheathing on the roof.

A special tear off shovel. Special tear off shovels have serrated edges that not only tear up the shingles but also pull out most of the old shingle nails at the same time. Tie yellow caution tape between the stakes to alert. How to remove roof sheathing 1.

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