I was repairing an exterior garden door for a customer. She mentioned there was a leak the last big rainstorm so I checked the flashing above. Sure enough the zinc flashing had seen better days.
To contribute to the problem the guy who fixed it before me had caulked the gaps in the shingles above. Also there was a heavy bead of silicone between the top of the flashing and the shingles above. Any water that managed to get behind the shingles had no where to go but in.
I had not come to the job prepared to remove shingles, so I grabbed an old steel square from the back of my truck and with the cutting wheel on a 4″ grinder I fashioned a Shingle Ripper. Thin enough to slip under the shingles and wiggle onto the nails, I hammered down on the short end of the square to remove them.
I lost some skin off my knuckles (no gloves) but was surprised how well the thing worked in a pinch.
Gord
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Good save and you have an excuse to buy a new square!
and U can harpoon a whale on the way home!
Multi-task ... btw ... have that sucker hanging off yer belt come check-collecting time ... I see quick payments in your future.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
I won't need to carry that thing at collection time, I just need to use it for a few minutes.
Bloody knuckles.
Gord
I really admire your willingness to sacrifice your tools AND your desire to get the job done!
But that thing scares me! Yes it does....
Jake Gulick
[email protected]
CarriageHouse Design
Black Rock, CT
i have about 20 squares that i bought at garage sales for a buck or two. i never would have thought or cutting one up but that was smart only thing is if someone finds that thing 80 years from now you are really gonna mess with there heads they wont know if you were a carpenter or fisherman or a drug crazed iperson
Look for a thread here in about 10 years titled "What Tool is This?" witha picture of that thing.
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." Pascal
A living example of the old saw, 'Necessity is the mother of invention.'
"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." Invictus, by Henley.
Interesting Save of the situation
but I am kind of curious how you came to be doing any kind of work like that without at least a flat bar with you?
Even a small painters bar would have worked out faster?
Stephen
I had the flat bar, but the shingles were 24" long with 10" exposure. I couldn't get up that high with a flat bar, or do you mean shingle bar? Some of the shingles had 4 nails each and were face nailed to boot.
Factory made shingle bars are a rarity here in Nova Scotia.Gord
I wass assuming some variation of standard asphalt shingles
you must have been working with some kind of wood shingle?
My mistake
Stephen
But is it still square ?
On a hill by the harbour
It now has ten sides.
So it's a Polygamist?Gord
Do you have a note from your mom to be out ?
On a hill by the harbour
My apologies.
I overlapped you name on the frappr map.
If you zoom in, the Novy balloon is in Africville.
Whats up with that?Gord
Gord,
You are a silly deaf man
Let's have a beer soon
RF
On a hill by the harbour
Novy, Gord,
Me too! Mee Tooo!
Ron (Proud possessor of two shingle rippers)
I think it is time for a Halifax Minifest. I will start a new thread in the fest section.
On a hill by the harbour
Fold that bottom leg straight up at the corner, and you won't have bloody knuckles anymore.
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
"Fold that bottom leg straight up at the corner, and you won't have bloody knuckles anymore."
Where the heck were you last friday?
Be BleedingGord
Well, wherever I was, I didn't have bleeding knuckles.;o)I think the first time I cut a knuckle I pretty much would have immediately stepped on that thing and bent the bottom leg upward.=0)Don't hate me cause I'm a jeenyus.(There're plenty of other reasons to hate me. LOL)
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
Dont try shooting that thing out of your new compound bow that you are getting for Christmas. If you do, make a movie out of it, I could use a good laff.
blue
I bet Blue is thinking to himself
"I'd like to see him do that with a girly speed square!"
Jon Blakemore
RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
The only way to make that work would be to cut it open and straighten it.
Blue might enjoy doing that to a speed square.Gord
lol