How To Remove Ice Shield From Roof

It s a fairly low slope roof 2 1 2 12 pitch with a southern exposure and it takes a real beating from the sun.

How to remove ice shield from roof.

Removing ice and watershield i wouldn t remove the shield if anything i d supplement it possibly by going over it. And often shingles stick to the ice shield and that can easily add hours if not days to the tear off project. I ve stripped a few roofs with i w and it s extremely difficult to get back to the original deck. It is a 4 year old roof with the ice and water shield on structural insulated panels outer layer is 3 4 osb so we are not able to simply replace the plywood we need to remove the i w and build a new roof system 8 above the existing one for circulation reasons.

I knew it had an ice water shield underlayment around the perimeter because i was the one that installed the roof 22 years ago. Hi my name is howard this is my first time using the forum. With that said i m pulling back a portion of my roof to tie a new roof into. Some work better removing the bulk of the shingles first leaving those who stick badly then peeling the ice shield off diagonally from one corner one or better two or three people pulling being careful not to back off the roof and one other person going along on the exposed surface with along handled driveway ice scraper like a mutt but.

Unless you hate future roofers that you don t even know yet do not cover the entire deck with iws. I had a roof that was stripped and re shingled 22 years ago 1989. Removing ice and water shield for re roof. Open to any and all suggestions thanks.

Start early in the morn and hurry up before the sun hit it. As anyone who has tried already knows it can be very difficult to remove shingles from ice shield. By design ice shield adheres to the roof deck. Good luck getting the shingles off the i w.