T-Locks

Hi ya'll was driving through an older part of town last week and saw a house that had them , not much left but you could tell what they were . when I was a kid 40 yrs. ago working for my dad we put them on every once in a while.are they still made ?

Daryl, Oh the good old days. All of those neighborhoods have changed tremendously. I wouldn't want to be working there these days.

Yo Jerry I remember those houses in Berwyn and Cicero, I grew up in the local Hoods lol my Mother had a roofover don on one of those bunglows for under $600 she called me up in Florida and asked me if I would reroof her house lol, well I found a local roofer sent him a check and the job was done, but moms got pissed because I didn't send a crew to complete the task lol

Used a lot of 'em on dairy barns back in the '60's and '70's. Single coverage and double coverage. Certainteed was the last to make them that I know of, but they've been discontinued for a long time.

Used to do a lot of them in the early 70's on bungalows in Berwyn and Cicero where the houses were so close to gether you could step from one to the next. Single coverage, 2 nails per shingle, you could cover a lot of roof in a short time. Was a pain to go around dormers and keep everything aligned. Haven't seen any in a long time.

I think you can order them from Canada. Also sometimes called Hurricane Locks.

I installed some of these about 28 years ago. We always started the first course with a "dime" width between them because if you didn't, by the time you got to the ridge on an average roof, they were squeezing together.

Fun to install and stand up to a lot of wind. They'll also make a rough roof look smoother on a recover.

As far as I know, no

Good question. I don't think so. Celotex used to make them and so did GAF. The GAF ones were called "Tite ons", and the Celortex ones were T-Locks.