Nail protection
If you used your over-garage attic for storage, and it had exposed roofing nails that threaten to puncture your head if you're not careful...
What would you use as a (relatively) inexpensive solution to cover those nails and protect one's head? Ping pong balls? Foam craft balls?
Looking for unique and creative solutions, please! Thanks!😃👍
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Is that safe to do on the roof of my home right next to my son's room? We get high winds here in CO, plus hail & snow, not to mention extreme temperature swings from freezing to hot to freezing again in a 24-hour period....
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Seems like you could shove sheets of foam insulation over them and it would also insulate the garage a little. Bob
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BobJudy does the thinking for most of us here. Darn good suggestion.
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montanajoe: 30509711920411/comments/30509744980635
BobJudy does the thinking for most of us here. Darn good suggestion.
Thank you for the compliment but it isn't really accurate. The breadth of knowledge on this forum is amazing and that is why I hang out here, so I can gain some of that knowledge. As for me, it is more like the theory of give a monkey a typewriter and eventually, and rarely something legible comes out.
While I do wear glasses, I don't have that much hair anymore. So before anyone says it, that's not a self portrait!😄 Bob
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Agree, foam board, either cut to go between rafters or nailed to the bottom of rafters.
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They make a heavy duty pair of what i call "Nippers" that will cut the excess nail off. Jaws fit right up next to plywood/tongue and groove board and as I recall leaves a little flat section so nail wont loosen up or pull up in windstorm. Won't be perfectly flat like a grinder but it worked for me and goes very fast.-----------------------Ray
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I used the foam board and construction adhesive. I wasn't cheap.
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Doesn’t that add heat to the shingles in the summer?
Not sure if that’s hard on shingles or not.
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Spray Foam insulation
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BobJudy: 30509711920411/comments/30509727649051
Seems like you could shove sheets of foam insulation over them and it would also insulate the garage a little. Bob
I did the same thing in my old garage with foam insulation. I also backed it up with some heavy twine and a staple gun on each rafter.
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cut Styrofoam sheets to size and stick to the nails, insulates at the same time.
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Seems like it would be a lot cheaper and quicker to get a hammer and just bend them over (stir, stir).
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swim noodles
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Gregor62: 30509711920411/comments/30509754880923
Seems like it would be a lot cheaper and quicker to get a hammer and just bend them over (stir, stir).
the next roofing crew would love you..........
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Or...wear a hard hat.
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I'd like to hear from any members that are/or were roofers. I recently had a hole patched by a roofer and his comment about the original crew that put the roof on was that they used too short of nails, seems he felt they were not sticking through enough... he said they used 1" and should have used 1.5" I have no idea what is correct, but before I'd cut any off I'd want to hear from a professional... just my 2 cents on the topic. I do like the idea of adding some type of foam or foam board though.
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Not a roofer or professional wood butcher but methinks the nails need to protrude thru the sheeting . At least enough to provide maximum holding power.
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Having cut the crap out of myself on those nails, I wear a hardhat. Would not cut them, using a grinder is an invitation to try out your fire insurance from the sparks. UNFACED foam insulation is likely Styrofoam (expanded polystyrene) or isocyanate. Both burn like crazy when in a vertical orientation. Helped investigate a triple fatality on a high altitude jobsite. Welder had set binary foam alight with his torch.
Hardhats are cheap, have a least a half dozen around here.
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End cutting pliers/nippers
I roofed for 18 years. Generally (there are exceptions) you want to use nails that will penetrate to get the most surface area possible. The extra protruding through isn't holding anything. When you cut them off be careful not to push the nail up.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This!
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