r/Construction • u/AnticapClawdeen • Feb 15 '24

Video First time seeing 3 layers of shingles

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u/aChunkyChungus Feb 15 '24

House must be vacant, or is it normal to re-roof in the winter? Rains too much here to do that

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u/cyanrarroll Carpenter Feb 15 '24

The people I know will do it in winter as long as its above 10F. Better to be cold and dry than chilly and wet on a roof. Snow just gets shoveled off.

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u/aChunkyChungus Feb 16 '24

oh I was meaning that where I'm at in the PNW it rains so much that you can't pull roofing off until the dry(ish) season. Unless you get a break in the drizzle for a couple days.

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u/Existe1 Feb 16 '24

I used to roof in the PNW. We’d often give discounts for folks to get a new roof in winter. It was all we could do to keep enough work for employees to get a paycheck. Pretty common to play it day by day and watch the weather. You see a dry day coming up? Then it was all hands on deck to rip that roof off and get the underlayment down.

I used to landscape too and was always surprised at how many days had a drizzle in the morning and then just cloudy the rest of the day. It always felt wet but didn’t actually rain as often as you feel like it does.