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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)
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
Ice and water shield - brands better than builder grade? I do my own roofing - I know there a good roofers out there - I just have not been fortunate to buy a house with a well properly installed roof When I first was required to use ice and water shield, I bought the cheapest generic material In the last decade I have become a fanboy of Grace IWS Now I am building a pole barn
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 The rafters will be toe-nailed directly to the beams as well as hurricane ties If I wrap the beams prior to assembling the roof with a rubber membrane, such as Grace IWS, will this be enough to protect them? If so, should I leave the bottom of the beam open? These will be trimmed with PVC trim-boards as well
Reconstruction reusing original roofing plywood - DIY Home Improvement . . . My question is about saving and reusing the roofing plywood that had ice and water shield on it 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
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!
Roof replacement, ice dam mittigation - DIY Home Improvement Forum This past winter was the first time that an ice dam trickled into the house The tenant collected a few oz of water on two occasions After the first water leak event in early Jan, I did use a roof rake to scrape the snow off in the area of the bay window When I did the roof in '94, I used the IWS as required by the building dept but made no changes to the attic venting Prior to the water