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Hi, it's Jay Beacham again.
It's the day after Thanksgiving, the 23rd of November, two thousand twelve
I don't know why they call a black....
Today I want to do something.
I've been working on some other roofs
and some roofs that are made with
architectural shingles. This is part of an architectural shingle.
The white line across there is very important.
That's where the nails were supposed to go or the staples.
This particular type,
I'm sorry about the red on the back, that's just the way it is here and Ivins
Utah,
right up here at the top,
this is where
a piece of cellophane was attached,
to keep them from sticking to
the other
shingle in the stack.
Now some of these architect shingles aren't built this way, some of them
have it here at the top,
embedded underneath
material they have the
cellophane stip here
right across where my thumb is.
and a...
they stack it instead of back to back, on top of each other that way,
and those are really hard to get off, because you have the kind of bend the shingle
in order to
gets them off.
I guess I should show the rest of that before I get into the next
little thing with that piece of broken shingle.
here are two of them in the stack,
You can see by looking at it.
There's the glue part
and on the other side
the cellophane strip.
And they lay down,
two together
like that.
And then so they don't stick in the stack and that's why when you get on the roof, you
take that cellophane strip off
so that it will stick to the roof better.
Now I did some work recently on a roof
and here's a shingle
that fell apart
with the wind.
You see where the staple is?
The staple was up there and they had another stable over here
where my thumb is, through to there.
But look at the back of this shingle.
The stable was up in this
section,
Where my thumb is.
You see the staple?
Now that's not going to work very good.
There's only this little piece of material right here
where the two parts are put together, and that's whee a stable is supposed to go
Otherwise there's... it doesn't hold it together.
Well, let's look at these. they cost more for architectural shingles
than 3-tab.
Are they really such a great shingle?
Let's look at a little piece here.
Now, you see it has that little teeny piece there.
Snf then they have these extension or build up pieces down below.
So it kinda looks like shingles, you know, like wood shingles.
But look at this.
See how that little piece is just glued on right here in the middle
there is a glue strip,
and there is a glue strip at the end,
and the little glue strip up here
in the middle.
Now that's not a lot of
holding together
A 3-tab is one full piece of shingle.
The only place these have one full piece of shingle
is on these little outcroppings.
The little underneath pieces,
that are in between or low,
like you can see here, the lower part,
That only has just a little teeny piece right there.
And that's all it is.
And it doesn't have much of holding .. I mean there's not much there.
If you don't get that nail in the right place, there's nothing to hold it.
The cellophane on there's is going to prevent it from sticking evenmore.
In my estimation these,
though they are heavier,
cost more,
fewer are in a bundle
than three tab, I don't think this is the best type of shingle to use.
Though it may have a look that people like.
And and when
and then when you put them on they really need to be put
a roof that has some pitch to it,
not on a flat or close to flat roof
as I've seen them done.
When these shingles blow apart, as seen by this,
the whole shingle comes apart. I mean it just blows apart. Just pieces.
where the 3-tab shingles
just the tab blows off.
So back to recount what we were doing.
The nail
or stable
shouldn't be up in the flat like this. should be where that white line is.
Well that's what they stick it on there for.
There's not a lot more to say about
architectural singles except
if you're going to do it,
you really ought to do a right!
This is Jay Beacham for
"How not to build a house".