Former Neighbor J, when walking me around and telling me his concerns before he moved away and left me as caretaker, said to pay particular attention to the shingles on the windward side of the house. This house is naked on the top of a ridge that gets blasted by wind.
Finally got some action during yesterday’s walkaround. Since yesterday’s wind was calm (and very hot) I waited till this morning to fix it while it’s still cool.
It ain’t pretty, but it won’t pull back up and it won’t leak. Tools put away before 8 am.
LB was a doll, guarded the Jeep and didn’t give me any grief even with the provocation of some cattle. Speaking of which…
At the foot of a steep grade, just after a sharp right turn so I’ve got zero momentum, I had to stop and wait while a calf got breakfast.
“Mom? Where ya goin’? Mom?”
Mom was pretty unhappy about the whole thing, so she split the moment Sonny Boy unplugged. Took him a minute to look around and get with the situation.
Friends that live out on an open prairie had to switch to interlocking shingles to keep the shingles on the house.
Yeah, most people here don’t use asphalt shingles at all. The environment is harsh in all the ways they don’t do well with.
If “Former Neighbor J” was sufficiently wise to store a few spare shingles somewhere, then you can use that plastic roofing cement to glue a chunk of shingle over those black spots and all will look (and be) as good as new. (Perhaps even better)
Ben, I considered that. There are some spare shingles but I question whether the roofing cement would hold it against the wind. Nobody on the ground can actually see this repair as it is.
One of my least favorite jobs, shingling. It’s nasty, back breaking work at the best of times not to mention gravity is not our friend. I didn’t realize that the winds were that much of an issue. Are shingles your only option? Would rubber sealant roof paint work?
http://www.chirienterprise.com/Roof-It/Roof-It.html
When I needed to seal a roof on a chicken coop that I built, I used spray-on truck bed liner.
That stuff is TOUGH, and doesn’t seem to let go of anything it touches while wet.
MJR, one of the claims of that Roof-It stuff is :”Protecting against high winds, which can lift shingles.” And I believe that is true, but only if you are willing to apply a multitude of heavy coats that totally encapsulate the shingles and effectively become your new roofing.
Cautionary tale: My neighbor paid a guy to paint her asphalt shingle roof with a similar product. He used one, possibly two coats. Over the next year or two, that stuff shrank. The shrinking not only opened cracks between the shingles, negating any sealing effects, it CURLED UP the shingles where they would catch the wind!