How To Remove Roof Sheathing

One way to remove the sheathing is to go at the nails with a cat s paw but that takes a lot of time and causes a lot of damage to the sheathing.

How to remove roof sheathing.

They have a fulcrum welded to the back of the shovel head to pry up materials. Use the saw to cut along the perimeter from which you removed the shingles and wrap. The roof sheathing needs to be cut in order to be removed. Drive stakes into the ground at the corners of the house.

Wedge the end of the pry bar. Mike made his own tool or rather modified an existing one to do the job faster and with less mess. Climb onto the roof and walk up to the roof peak. This job required removing the lowest course of sheathing on the roof.

Be sure to like and subscribe in order to help me bring you more helpful videos. A special tear off shovel. We knew that this old house had significant gaps in the wood p. Remove the wood from the roof using the longer pry bar to assist you.

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. How to remove plywood easily. How to remove roof sheathing 1.

Put on your safety goggles and work gloves as you will be using the reciprocating saw. This video is showing one of many ways to tear off a roof with the sheathing.