Climb onto the roof with a shingle scraper.
Remove shingles for metal roof.
Some roofing contractors recommend reroofing with standing seam metal because the total roof weight is but a fraction of a standard asphalt shingle roof which helps preserve the roofing integrity.
Remove roof shingles before installing a metal roof.
Push them down the roof so they fall into the trash bin.
Every roof needs to be evaluated individually.
Continue tearing off the shingles and underlayment until you reach the roof jacks then start over at the top of the roof.
In my opinion going over the old shingles is worthy of consideration because of the benefits of doing so.
Push the shingles down to the roof jacks.
However before you decide on reroofing with a metal roof you have to keep in mind that there are specific conditions that make reroofing with a.
The shingles will roll up like a ball in front of the fork.
Beginning at the peak slide the scraper under the top layer of shingles and pry them off.
1 remove the shingles before installing the metal roof the first way to install a metal roof over shingles is by completely removing the old shingles before installing the new metal roof.
A benefit to doing it this way is that you can see if there is any rotten plywood that needs to be replaced before installing the new roof.
In a typical year approximately 90 of the roofs our company manufactures are installed over old shingles.