How To Temporarily Patch A Roof Hole

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How to temporarily patch a roof hole.

Use 1x2 along the perimeter of the tarp and a few nails or screws to hold them in place. Nail the plywood sheet section to the braces with 8 penny nails. Isolate areas when you run the hose. A few holes in a roof that needs fixing anyway is pretty cheap insurance.

You ve searched how to repair a convertible top and you re looking for answers because your convertible top has a hole a tear or a rip and you want to fix that problem. Start low soaking the area just above where the leak appears in the house. Now you can pull the ropes and the tarp into place. Have your helper stay inside the house waiting for the drip to appear.

I cut out the existing shingles in the area around the hole. For example soak the downhill side of a chimney first then each side then the top on both sides. Cover all the nail heads with roofing cement. Straighten out any curling shingles by softening them with a heat gun and gluing them down with roofing cement.

Really you don t want to be up on the roof in a storm trying to retrieve your flapping tarp. Anytime you throw something over the house there is a risk of hitting a person pet window etc. Wind can be powerful and damned persistent. Tie the string to the lash ropes on the tarp and pull the ropes over the house.

Replace a plywood section with new plywood cut to fit the exact size. To make sure it doesn t blow away in a light breeze you can use your tools boxes of screws strapping etc on the undamaged side wrap one end of the tarp around the 1 3 furring strip making sure the furring strip extends past each end by 1. For large patches nail 2 by 4 braces inside the existing rafters with 10 penny nails. One way is to tie lightweight string to a tennis ball and throw the ball over the roof.

Slide any loose shingles back under the bottom edge of the row above and nail them down securely with 6d galvanized nails. Helping our customers solve their automotive upholstery problems the right way and. Temporarily screw the rolled end down to the roof with at least two or three screws.