How to replace a damaged shingle

We had a wind storm recently blow off one shingle and damage 3 shingles on our garage. We had to replace them, and all the roofing companies said to do it ourselves, because its easy.

Winds of 100km, the yard was a mess, garbage, shingles, toy pools, wishing wells and leaves everywhere.

Step 1 Get New Shingles

Take your shingle to the store and get a bundle of matching shingles. Make sure you get a bundle, because I thought I needed one and I ended up using 4 and breaking 2 by dropping them.

In our case it was a laminated NY Driftwood bundle for 25 dollars at RoofMart.

This image will help you determine what to get: http://images.oldhouseweb.com/stories/bitmaps/10149/figs1thru4.gif

Comments

[Harryone]

Some shingles come with a few spots of roofing cement preapplied. After a coupla warm days they'll glue their flaps down automatically-at least, hopefully. Black gooey stuff is at other places, too. I'd suggest the warmest day available since it makes the goo softer and easier to abuse. Wear a hat.

[mweston]

We just had a winstorm here in Cincinnati Ohio... except our wind actuall took all the shingls off Happen to have an instructable on that :)

[mweston]

BTW, I like the pictures, they make it a lot easier!

[sbrown]

Actually, no but I can make one. I re shingled our shed last year. Do you want me to make one?

[mweston]

No thanks, we are having a roofing company lay down all new shingles, but if you ever happen to need to re-roof something, post pictures - Im sure it would help a lot of people.

[sbrown]

Indeed, I will be doing a shed in what 20 years? :D haha i just did it last year.

[FreshPineSent]

It's even harder when the previous owner of the home re-shingled the roof incorrectly.

[srhadaham]

looks like you did an excellent job and your pictures made it easy to follow