How to Repair Shingles Blown Off Near the Ridge
This is one of the easiest repairs to do, and I will illustrate with some pictures I took doing this very same repair on a home in Haverhill Massachusetts just Yesterday.
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First you need to get the necessary supplies, This means you will need to match your shingle. This can be the toughest part of the repair. In order to match the color and size of the shingle you have to know who the manufacturer is.
The easiest way to determine the manufacturer of your shingle is to bring a piece from your roof to a local building supplier that stock multiple brands of shingles. once you identify the manufacturer, the color will be obvious.
If you know the brand of your shingle it may help you to also know, Home Depot stocks GAF products, Lowes stocks Owens Corning products, and the two biggest shingle manufactures are GAF/ELK and Certain-Teed.
To do this style of repair you would simply:
- Remove all the caps along the ridge above the missing shingles.
- Remove any damaged shingles.
- Install new shingles starting with the lowest and working your way to the ridge (Top).
- Install new caps on the ridge.
- Finish off the last cap by face nailing it and sealing the nails with Geocel
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