Step 2 attaching the felt to your roof.
How to repair torn roofing paper under a tile.
Fasten the felt on your roof using the cap nails.
Cut away the parts of the tar paper that are badly torn wrinkled or damaged using a sharp utility knife.
Make sure the caulk is rated for the temperatures and apply it liberally so you don t create a water pocket.
It is necessary that you start from the bottom of the roof and then cut the felt using the knife.
Alternately get more roofing felt and a tube of roofing caulk and glue felt patches over the rips with the caulk.
The roof let water fall all of the way to our hardwood.
Then they will replace the roofing tiles.
Nail down the new edges with roofing nails driven through metal disks.
To replace a small section of roofing felt involves stripping the tiles from the roof and replacing felt between two joists.
Another roofer recommended the same approach but with two layers of 30 pound felt as the underlayment.
Is the contractor right.
They said they only had to put tar paper around where the tiles were broken.
These discs function as large washers distributing the pressure of the roofing nail and decreasing the risk of tearing.
Where wind driven rain is working under the roof and causing leaks then the felt will need to be replaced.
Two weeks ago i had a large fir tree branch fall and break 13 tiles on my roof.
You have to line up the felt so it will hang over the lower portion of the roof.
One roofer recommended removing the composite roofing tiles and replacing the old underlayment with 90 pound paper.