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Posted by Lar on April 26, 2007, 12:48 am
Robert Allison wrote:
> When my roofers are roofing, there are about 10 people up there, and
> roof jacks are just too tedious and are never everywhere you need them.
> We just cut strips of valley metal into 2" x 12" pieces. Nail 3 of them
> to a 12' 2x4 and then nail the strips to the roof (as you would a roof
> jack). When you need to move the 2x4 up, you just slightly raise the
> shingle covering them and cut them off above the bottom edge of the
> shingle.
>
> One note; I would buy valley metal from a roofing supply for this as
> the stuff at the Borgs is probably too thin.
>
I used to just flatten some strips of drip edge and that worked fine too.
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> roof jacks are just too tedious and are never everywhere you need them.
> We just cut strips of valley metal into 2" x 12" pieces. Nail 3 of them
> to a 12' 2x4 and then nail the strips to the roof (as you would a roof
> jack). When you need to move the 2x4 up, you just slightly raise the
> shingle covering them and cut them off above the bottom edge of the
> shingle.
>
> One note; I would buy valley metal from a roofing supply for this as
> the stuff at the Borgs is probably too thin.
>