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Removing Ice and Water Shield for re-roof. - DIY Home Improvement Forum Here's what I learned today Unless you hate future roofers that you don't even know yet, DO NOT cover the entire deck with IWS With that said, I'm pulling back a portion of my roof to tie a new roof into It runs up the roof about 60" from the edge I was buzzing right along from the top
Ice and Water Shield under drip edge? - DIY Home Improvement Forum The drip edge can have the style D roof edge capped by the IWS (method 1) The IWS can be run over the edge and hanging down on the fascia with a style L roof edgeover the roof edge and into the gutter (method 2) Finally the IWS can go under the style D roof edge and then it is sealed with a strip of IWS over the top (method 3)
Tying new roof into old. - DIY Home Improvement Forum put down a 36" wide IWS at the valley directly on the roof deck Lay the old underlayment, that I pulled back, back over the the IWS Put new shingles back on the old roof and run up the new roof For the shingles on the new roof, I'm going to cut at an angle to follow the roof line up (Done this way to match the current dormer ) Questions:
Ice and Water Shield - DIY Home Improvement Forum Recently, I had GAF 30 yr Timberline shingles put on my 80 year old house by a GAF certified Master Elite contractor and purchased the Golden Pledge Warranty The way I understood this roofing system was that Ice and Water shield would be laid down on the eves and 3 ft around all penetrations
Reconstruction reusing original roofing plywood - DIY Home Improvement . . . It's a simple shed roof, 20' x 12', 26 57 pitch Building reconstruction using original material Several plywood sheets have IWS with shingles stuck to it Budget and desire to not waste more important than time, home owner willing to invest time to remove shingle residue If the shingles are removed as much as possible, heat used to remove the remaining bits and more or less smooth the
ProPress tools, someone talk me off the ledge - DIY Home Improvement Forum My house is just over 30 years old, plumbed w copper, and we've got really hard water It's leading to corrosion showing up in quite a few places, and when I remove valves and fittings I'm finding over a 1 8" thick mineral deposits building up at the lip of two fittings My mom is in a 45
Protecting LVL for outdoor use. - DIY Home Improvement Forum I'm building a covered deck that requires LVL beams to make the span for a roof These won't be in direct outdoor elements (under a roof) but I still need to protect them from weather The rafters will be toe-nailed directly to the beams as well as hurricane ties If I wrap the beams prior to
Grace vs. Certainteed - DIY Home Improvement Forum Grace Ice and Water Shield versus Certainteed Winterguard HT, which is better? Both claim to be far superior than the competing brand's, but locally they sell only one or the other of these!
setting deck posts (4x4) in concrete anchors piers Grace IWS does fine around roofing nails which go straight in, but he suggested using Blueskin, and it was the same price So I went with the one that someone had first hand experience with I'm sure IWS would also work fine, but I just preferred a little more tar for around the screws