How To Remove Ice Shield From Roof

Hi my name is howard this is my first time using the forum.

How to remove ice shield from roof.

Start early in the morn and hurry up before the sun hit it. It is a 4 year old roof with the ice and water shield on structural insulated panels outer layer is 3 4 osb so we are not able to simply replace the plywood we need to remove the i w and build a new roof system 8 above the existing one for circulation reasons. Good luck getting the shingles off the i w. With that said i m pulling back a portion of my roof to tie a new roof into.

Open to any and all suggestions thanks. As anyone who has tried already knows it can be very difficult to remove shingles from ice shield. It s a fairly low slope roof 2 1 2 12 pitch with a southern exposure and it takes a real beating from the sun. I am going to replace my roof my question is do i try to remove the existing ice and water shield or just lay new ice and water shield over the old.

Unless you hate future roofers that you don t even know yet do not cover the entire deck with iws. I knew it had an ice water shield underlayment around the perimeter because i was the one that installed the roof 22 years ago. I had a roof that was stripped and re shingled 22 years ago 1989. I ve stripped a few roofs with i w and it s extremely difficult to get back to the original deck.

By design ice shield adheres to the roof deck. Removing ice and watershield i wouldn t remove the shield if anything i d supplement it possibly by going over it. This is great but ice shield also creates other problems for roof installers. Removing ice and water shield for re roof.