Removing Nails From Corrugated Siding

Use a straight claw hammer or flat.

Removing nails from corrugated siding. Start at the highest point of the roof and work downward. The best way to do that is to pound the pointed jaws of a cat s paw under the head. In this gem from the fine homebuilding video vault john ross shows us how how finesse and a few special tools help to free bent headless and the most stubborn of all galvanized nails. Take your hammer and find out the nail you want to remove.

Insert a pry bar between the piece of siding from which you want to remove the nails and the one above it. When the head rises make a secure and tight hold on the head of the nail and create a sideway with a little bit pressure. Corrugated roofing panels overlap each other making the. Pulling nails from boards with a hammer claw using brute force is a sure way to create ugly gouges and to bruise your knuckles.

Use a straight claw hammer or flar bar to pull the nails. Set your hammer to the head of the nail and then pry it. How to easily remove roof nails from a metal roof. As for the 2x4 s with nails embedded down below the surface a tool like the deck wrecker will work very well.

Access the roof with a ladder. If not pick a section of siding preferably one at the top or near an edge. Look along the edges of the corrugated panels. Use a safety harness when working on the roof to prevent falls.

Pulling nails to pull each nail you first need to raise the head a small amount. Position the pry bar beside a nail and pry the upper board outward until the nail pops. Slide your zip tool back and forth parallel to the section of steel siding that you have chosen. Ring shank nails are a bear.

If the nippers you re using won t work i d suggest better nippers. Walk or stand only on those portions of the roof that have nails in place. How to remove nails from corrugated roofing. Find the nail heads on the roof.

That s assuming the nail heads are on the ridges of the metal and the problem is merely inability to cut the nail. That s why they were made.