Originally Posted by
Richard Stanley
Perhaps I should have stated my reason for posting that info. I thought that the previous posts to mine might cause someone to report that replacement was needed for all shingles with exposed nails.... obviously this is one exception. If they are covered with roof cement, they aren't exposed!
No, that's not a correct statement either.
I'll try it again.
"I thought that the previous posts to mine might cause someone to report that replacement was needed for
all shingles with exposed nails.... "
That is a correct statement.
"obviously this is one exception."
Obviously, but not as stated below:
"If they are covered with roof cement, they aren't exposed!"
Totally incorrect.
The *obvious* "one exception" is that last ridge shingle which must be face nailed with its nails exposed. This is because there is no other shingle to be installed over it, it *is* *the* *last* shingle to be installed.
So, with that "one exception", the nails in *that one shingle* are allowed to be covered with plastic roof cement.
Covering *other* nails in *other* shingles does not constitute them 'not being exposed', they still are, they are exposed out from under a shingle. Those *other* nails in the *other* shingles are exposed, meaning that *those shingles need to be replaced*.
Obviously. (So I thought ... obviously.)