How To Remove Roof Sheathing

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.

How to remove roof sheathing.

Climb onto the roof and walk up to the roof peak. We knew that this old house had significant gaps in the wood p. This job required removing the lowest course of sheathing on the roof. 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. Put on your safety goggles and work gloves as you will be using the reciprocating saw. Wedge the end of the pry bar. This video is showing one of many ways to tear off a roof with the sheathing.

By starting at the peak and working toward the eaves you ll always. How to remove plywood easily. The roof sheathing needs to be cut in order to be removed. They have a fulcrum welded to the back of the shovel head to pry up materials.

Framing tips vandam construction inc is licensed in utah for commercial and residential construction of any project size. Mike made his own tool or rather modified an existing one to do the job faster and with less mess. Drive stakes into the ground at the corners of the house. Be sure to like and subscribe in order to help me bring you more helpful videos.

It s important to know what kind of a substrate is underneath the wood shakes before removing. Remove the wood from the roof using the longer pry bar to assist you.