How to Repair Roof Shingles

If you have wind damaged shingles and are in need of DIY roof repair. This video shows how to replace shingles that have blown off. The first step to repair shingles is to remove all remnants of the old damaged shingles, including pulling or pounding in all the nails. Then take your new shingles and starting at the bottom of the damaged area, install them with 5 nails each and using tube roofing tar to make sure they are sealed down.
Check the surrounding area for loose shingles and use the tar to seal them before the next wind tears them off too.

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[constructiongeek]

Have the same amount of wind damage to replace. Local roofers started at $1k minimum to show up. $50 in Home Depot and 30 minutes later, banged it out. Thanks for the refresher, I hadnt done shingles since a summer job in 1996!

[orotify]

I used to work for a roofing company for about a year and recently got offered to help out on fixing some shingles and this video refreshed my memory, thank you

[freedomfight]

Thanks, I was going to pay someone way too much to do that. Now I'm doing it myself!

[BIMLounge]

That slow-mo of the broken shingles being thrown off the roof did it for me. Thanks!

[bradyalbright]

Now this is a true American. Giving back. I appreciate this very much haven't roofed in 15 years. Thanks for refreshing the memory.

[brentjohnson]

We live I. North Texas and just lost some asphalt shingles on my pump house. So I have some of the ordinal shingles I put on about 33 years ago. Thanks for the tip of using tar to seal the shingles down. I am probably going to put down steel roofing later this year. But to make it weatherproof before our trip I will just replace the broker ones like you showed. Thanks for your video.

[PlayMyMusicPlaylist]

I like that u still include the original sound. It's really windy

[yellowbird]

Three shingles blew off my two story roof (looks like the same pitch you were on), and it's been a challenge to get anyone to replace them. I also have a small leak up at the peak somewhere. Everyone wants to re-roof. The roof is 18 years old on an original build. The guy I'm dealing with right now also wants to re-sheathe it, as the boards underneath are slightly warped (he called it "cupping.") But to do that, it would cost a ton, and I'm not sure it's necessary. I spoke to someone who knows about roofing and he said that there is nothing wrong with the boards underneath, as they are not that old, and the warping will be camouflaged with dimensional shingles (I have three tab on there now, a light grey) of a darker shade of grey. Am I being "upsold" on replacing all the boards when it is not necessary? Thank you for your excellent video. I live alone and am trying to learn all I can about roofing at YouTube University.

[mudnducs]

Thanks man!
Quick and to the point with out a bunch of blabbering!

[diehardfan]

You took your time tarred the right places, only thing I would’ve done differently is added more nails! Thanks for the video

[tonyrodriguez]

Appreciate ya. We loss eight shingles during a wind storm. Insurance said its a border line situation which probably means we won't pay. Time to head to Lowes and see if they can match what I have on the roof. Thanks.

[TheOnlyGoblinCaveman]

The slow motion throwing of the old shingles was great

[owenmartin]

We're from texas and we just have storm last night and damage some part of our shingles. The following morning we decided to see how much will it cost repairing them. And was shocked that this guy wanted the whole roof to be remove instead of repairing what has been removed by the storm.

[Benzo-vo]

Thanks man very helpful I was having trouble ❤

[jmsegurac]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing brother. Now I am going to patch up the roof on my house.

[DeathValleyDazed]

Super helpful and well edited. I’ll follow your techniques tomorrow on my own roof.

[LoveOutLoudonutube]

At first I thought I was watching Kevin James and one of his comedy videos you could be his double LOL thank you for the video very informative

[LuisLopez-uyjc]

Thank you for making this video. Very helpful.

[mikenguyen]

Wish I could do this. Live in the hot south (louisiana) and my 5 year old shingles won't even pry up enough to hammer underneath like that. If I try to use the pry bar to lift most times they will tear and get worse. My solution seems to get what you can underneath the sections you take out and use this roofing tar to seal up the adjacent connecting joints. Thanks for the video though.

[kassandralondon]

Fantastic video! Keep on making more videos!