[time-nuts] frying pan antenna

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Tue Mar 16 20:33:06 UTC 2010


Putting the paper down doesn't hurt, so I always do it, but you would
have to do a really lousy job for it to help.  The only time I can see
it really helping, after the shingles are on, is if you have a massive
tear off due to a storm.

I frequently leave a new roof in tar paper for several weeks before I
can schedule time to put the shingles on.  That is the real use for
tar paper in roofing.

I never use the lines on the paper.  I layout the roof myself,
using a chalk line to mark out the courses.

-Chuck Harris

d.seiter at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> I think tar paper basically has two functions these days-  it's a cheap backup in case the roofers don't install
> correctly, and the lines on the paper are used as a guide to install the shingles.




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