Exposed Nails In Attic

Something caught my attention in the attic.

Exposed nails in attic.

Tear off or not it is a lousy job in my opinion. What should you do about exposed nail heads. In the worst case it will lead to actual leaks in your attic and this in turn can lead to moist insulation mold problems and other water damage. Remove nail lift shingle and apply a small dab where nail penetrated shingle then push the overlapping shingle down and your done.

Smaller nail holes will be permanently fixed by this method standard roofing nails would be either 3 8 inch or 1 2 inch making a hole. No more nails in the head. If you use your attic for storage and need protection buy an insulating foam and have it sprayed against the walls. This is from a 40 year single family today.

Fill small nail holes with silicone caulk or roof cement. Stately attractive and open. Exposed roofing nails in attic dripping post by tnaval fri dec 29 2017 8 29 pm besides a table saw and a chop saw i used for a couple hours and my body heat. Just make sure that you don t damage the shingles lifting them up.

Unless you live in your attic the protruding nail heads shouldn t be a problem. But that rarely happens. I would recommend doing this on a sunny day and after exposed to sun for a few hours. The exposed beam ceiling look is one that many owners of conventional flat ceilings desperately want.

Desperately enough in fact to consider making the major step of pulling down ceiling drywall to expose joists above. There are no exposed nail tips in coming through the roof decking in pic1. Cut the tubing into pieces about 3 8 to 1 2 long depending on length of exposed nails in your attic then push a piece of tubing onto each nail point. Make sure the shingle has the proper number of nails in it also.

However you can take care of exposed nail heads. As you can see in pic 2 they drove screws through at rafter intersections only. Removing and replacing all of the shingles is not a very viable option because it s so time consuming.