sam weaver I’ve been in the working industry my whole life. I went from an installer to customer service and now I’m in sales. Yes Roofing is my life. Sales is very easy. Never gonna get rich but you can make a decent living.
Good for you guys 👍🏽 Looks like you actually take your time to train etc and put less stress on your guys. I have an all Mexican crew and yes, they’re fast but I’d love these extra toys to help them out. No hate all props.
Ive roofed for 13 to 14 yrs and the one thing it taught me was to learn how to something else like windows or siding. Let them young guys learn them lessons. See ya n a few years on the wall.
looks like this machine is nobody used to is brand new. and inspected the harness before they put it on. on the unloading shingles not wearing any harness and when they lay down the synthetic felt not hook up to any anchor on the roof. THEY DOING A GREAT JOB. NO QUESTION ASK.
How come on all roofing videos when they show a rip off it's always just a one layer rip? Where are the 3 to for layer or the 6 to 7 layer on the flat roofs. Show that , and you get my respect. The 1 layer rips are a walk in the park, compared too.
@@1stknigh I think I saw some of the last of those get torn off nearly 10 years ago. They're few and far between now, but you do see some 2 layers here and there.
This is luxury roofing. We had to tote 80 pound bundles of shingles one at a time Up the ladder and place it on the roof, then go down and get another bundle and repeat until The job was finished. Plus to tear off the old shingles we used a pitch fork and had no machine whatsoever that could just pop everything up nails and all. That is pretty cool tho. And we threw the old roofing and debris off the roof on a tarp and had to lift it or throw it by hand into a dumpster so that sucked too. I wish it would have been like this when I used to roof.lol would have saved a lot of back pain.
Yall so extra. When I work with my father We use pitchforks to tear off the shingles. We do it in a way where it makes no mess and the shingles are easily rolled up and are able to be thrown out.
@@davidbudy6256 as a roofer in Florida tearing off double layer 6 nail architectural shingles it absolutely will. Does a fantastic job even on roofs with dimensional lumber for decking you just gotta run it crooked down the roof so you don’t hit each board. Outside of double layer it’s fast but to much wear an tear on the user, double layers though that machine is where it’s at. *edit only if bottom layer is gonna crumble anyways, if top layer peels and bottom ain’t to bad it’s a tossup
You're talking about the shingle tear off machine? The Equipter buggy is really nice. Friend of mines got a few of them. The tear off thing he had one and nobody liked it.
Sorcery I say! Magical Tear Off machine flipping Shingles. Giant Robot positioning to catch Tear Off, Material slides to feed the Robot. Are these Roofer's from Outer Space, or Warlocks of some sort? They must be, those guy's had a WATER COOLER AND PROPER TOOLS! SORCERY I SAY !!!!!!! :)
I was on roofs in TN, thats as brutal as I can take it. Here in South Florida? I'm not getting on a roof! And they make y'all do all kind of craziness too - you're not doing a tear off / reroof in a day.
@@notsure7874 it is brutal down here. Especially when you pair up summer time with torched roofs. We only do commercial roofs so theres no such thing as anything in one day. A person needs several summers on the roof to be able to withstand the conditions, let alone be productive within them. Not for everyone.
@@southpaw602 I was on mostly residential, some commercial roofs, but not a ton of them. They're a different animal for sure. Here I was feeling bad for Florida shinglers - forgot all about the guys torching stuff down or doing hot mop (do they even do that here?) Up "north" you see more hot mop than torch down, but no hurricane codes. I'd say that I'd rather do TPO down here, but all that white and the bright sun could make y ou go snowblind too. Screwed either way! I try to explain to friends up north that temperature and humidity isn't everything. Being closer to the equator, the sun is more intense. More rays per square inch and whatnot. 85 here feels closer to 92 there. They don't get it! I've actually been wonderiing - I see a lot of torch down here where I'd see self adhering up there (on residential, more BUR on commercial). Is SA not allowed even on residential (idk if you know res codes ...)? All I know about it is no more 3 tabs, double nail decking, 6 nail shingles, drip edge on all edges, no overhang, and cement the shingles down to the drip edge. - Oh and metal tabs for underlayment instead of plastic. I've got to do my roof probably next year (be my first roof in 5 years) and I've got a small flat I'm not sure how I can do it here. I'm not torching down anything myself. I have a hand torch for the garden, but I'm not putting fire on my roof! Torch down has always terrified me.
True that. California or weave if it's same pitch. I can shingle without a hook blade! Some people just would have a hissy fit if they didn't be have one just to do a crappy job that will be seen in 30+ years. Or before.
Have you tried a hook blade on an ocsilating tool? its slick. We try pretty hard not to do weaved valleys here in Maine. With the snow load and temp fluctuations they are always the first point of a roof to fail. The cut valleys last alot longer in our neck of the woods.
Good point Eric. You'll notice that we put underlayment at the peak so we could stage the shingles. Of course the rest of the underlayment was then brought up under that to properly shed water.
OK, so just how weatherproof is Deck Armor? (Of course you guys are in and out before you'd notice.) Also, what kind of shears are you cutting them with?
60FpsGoodness it depends where you live. In high heat and windy areas clay roofs are best. Not so good for the weight of snow. Shingles also install faster, lighter, they don't break and if they tear there is a something under to protect your roof because of the way shingles overlay.
he asked why houses are made of wood. and we used to use wood shingles as well, shakes. then we moved to more modern types of roofing materials. wood is plentiful here. places that use brick/slate and other types of material probably do so because they don't have a large logging industry.
@@hollywoodspirit5176 never m8nd the fines. Do it for safety. That's one of the biggest problems with osha and getting fined. People are doing it to not get fined or cause osha says to do it. You gotta have the attitude that I'm setting harness up so nobody gets hurt and we all go home at the end of the day
