Roofing Felt Has Been Rained On For 4 Days

It is best to avoid rainy day installations.

Roofing felt has been rained on for 4 days.

Will the trapped moisture below the shingles be ok. There are several good inorganic deck protections on the market ranging in price. If your roofing contractor suspects a storm is approaching expect a call postponing the project until the weather has passed. Shingle mate is a very good product that is more than sufficient for most sloped roof applications.

My contractor put all of the roofing felt on couple of days ago. They installed the shingles on half of the roof in the rain. Our osb is rated exposure 1 and that means that it will withstand normal delays in construction. Harris started out as an insurance adjuster and recalls countless claims from homeowners with interior ceiling damage but no sudden and accidental roof damage to reference in filing the claim.

Osb like all other wood will expand. When installed properly your new roof will last you ten years or more. Roofing felt that has gotten wet can be covered with shingles as long as it is allowed to dry out first the surface underneath did not get wet and it did not wrinkle bubble or rip. If your roofing company uses only inorganic roof deck protection and installs it correctly you won t have a problem with rippling.

Certainly it would have been better to have covered the roof with a tarp or roofing felt before it rained. The origin of 4u roofing. But when they were installing the asphalt shingles yesterday it started to rain. Delaying a repair a few days for foul weather to pass is well worth the wait.