How To Remove Roof Sheathing

Mike made his own tool or rather modified an existing one to do the job faster and with less mess.

How to remove roof sheathing.

How to remove roof sheathing 1. Drive stakes into the ground at the corners of the house. We knew that this old house had significant gaps in the wood p. Wedge the end of the pry bar.

Use the saw to cut along the perimeter from which you removed the shingles and wrap. Climb onto the roof and walk up to the roof peak. This video is showing one of many ways to tear off a roof with the sheathing. Be sure to like and subscribe in order to help me bring you more helpful videos.

Tie yellow caution tape between the stakes to alert. This job required removing the lowest course of sheathing on the roof. By starting at the peak and working toward the eaves you ll always. Remove the wood from the roof using the longer pry bar to assist you.

A special tear off shovel. Put on your safety goggles and work gloves as you will be using the reciprocating saw. It s important to know what kind of a substrate is underneath the wood shakes before removing. 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.

They have a fulcrum welded to the back of the shovel head to pry up materials. How to remove plywood easily.