inspector didn't like staples on a comp roof...

---Roofed a house for a guy selling. Buyer had an inspector look the house over as is pretty customary. Inspector says that staples are not allowed on comp roofs. (that may be true...???) Buyer freaks out. Real estate agent calls me in a panic as the sale is now at risk and so is his commission. ---I told him a would have the shingle manuf. fax him a statement that the full warranty was in effect even tho the roof was stapled. Local rep had the factory tech send just that to the real estate agent. Everyone was happy.

---I have installed stapled comp roofs since the 70's and have never once had an issue. But I guess the building standards established in hurricane Florida are creeping westward.

Lanny

Right on. Staples are very good. Every fastener has to be installed correctly, and that includes hand nails, staples and gun nails. I like staples though.

im a hand nailer but id take a staple over those nasty coiled things that come outta those guns any day!

The only shingle I know of that won't allow staples shot in it is Landmark TL.

We haven't run a staple gun for going on 10 years but did a few hundred with them with no major issues. Back then the shingles were good for a whopping 62mph!

My father, and uncles have put on thousands of stapled roofs.

The last couple years running the PW homeowners would panic when they saw it. It would be like walking into church with a cig in one hand a beer in the other!

In tearing off shakes, I find the shakes are nore likely to split because of the fastener hold on it with staples than with nails.

Egg, you are correct there. they have to be parallel to the bottom of the shingle, but when they are correctly placed and even with the bottom of the shingle, they are hard to beat. I have used them sonce 1972, so over 40 years now. still do and I love them.

A big time Urban Legend dubya. I have never seen staples fail anymore than nails. The tab of a shingle blows off. How is that the staples fault? The staple blows through the shingle? Not the staples fault either.

Oh well. This is roofing. The Tail Wags the Dog

Until I started on this forum I'd never heard one positive thing about stapling a shingle. But then again, placement isn't the concern of too many around here. I know I like to tear em off!

Placement and orientation. I have no use, however, for staples in wood shakes. I have NEVER seen a properly fastened wood roof that had been put on with a gun. Never, ever and some of them were put on by top-quality experienced wood men. You cannot aim a gun at a piece of wood thousands of times a day and put the staples where they belong and not where they don't. Lifting, curling, splitting, drifting. All of it and all of it bad. There's no love in it.

Amen OS!

Staples are "BETTER" than gun nails in my opinion, and I too have installed thousands of roofs with them; did one today in fact. Look at almost any gun nail and see how they are cutting through the shingle. Most are put in at a slight angle and the corner buries into the shingle.

Fastener placement is the focus and it doesn't matter whether you are using hand nails, staples or gun nails. if they are put in wrong, the roof is bad.

Nothing wrong with staples....Put on 1,000's of roofs w/staples....never had an issue...Fastener placement should be the focus.

I get a lot of anti-staple feedback lanny.

Ya gots to remember: This is roofing. The Tail wags the Dog.