Home For Sale In Knoxville Getting New Roof

Various shingles on this roof have visible damage on them. Many of these shingles have granule loss on them, and there is also a couple of holes in some of the shingles.

Most of the shingles on this roof can be easily pulled up. The glue strip on the shingles is no longer holding them down as well. This is extremely important, so water doesn’t get in under the shingles.

The back side of this roof has five boots, and they are all in bad shape. These boots have deteriorated and would be very easy for water to get in and cause problems inside the home.

This home has an old metal ridge vent. These are not the best, and when we install the new roof, it will be getting a new bigger plastic ridge vent that will allow the roof to breathe better and extend its life of the roof.

The old roof was torn off of this house. Shingles, boots and underlayment was all taken off. The wood was checked to make sure that it is acceptable to take the new shingles.

Once the old roof was taken off and all of the wood was checked, synthetic underlayment was laid down to protect the roof. All new drip edge, pipe boots and starter shingles were installed before the new shingles were laid down.

The dumpster was placed at the driveway to make sure all trash was collected.

Drip edge was installed along the entire roof to protect the edges of the roof. This roof did not have drip edge before and was most likely the cause of some leaks at the ends of the roof.

New ridge vent was installed to allow the roof to breathe. Better ventilation of the roof will extend the life of the roof.

This roof had a brand new roofing system installed with GAF Natural Shadow Weatheredwood shingles, starter shingles, drip edge, synthetic underlayment and pipe boots.