Hello everyone, My house has a flat roof and I hate it, and for many reasons it is going to be replaced by a pitched metal roof. I have put on several metal roofs in Florida with little excitement and event so I'm planning on doing the same here. To he house has a concrete basement and wooden single story on top of the basement. current flat roof is on it's way out. My plans were to measure the existing roof and go to our local truss company to design the new roof structure and build it. then remove all the old flashing, gutters.....bolt the new roof structure to the trusses. Then the easy part the roof. Here's a question. The house is only one story with a concreate basement. Should I have a structural engineer asses the structure and make the plans.

Hi folks, I'm having some shingle problems and need some advice. About 7 months ago (July 09) we had our 20 year old roof re-shingled. I noticed then that the roofers removed only about 30% of the clear plastic strip that covers the tar on the bottom part of the shingle. I was told it's not necessary to take the plastic strip off. A wind/rain storm this week peeled about 15 of my new shingles off starting at the ridge. These are IKO asphalt laminated shingle with a 30 year warranty. I think if the plastic strips had been removed, so the tar could stick the shingles down, that this might not have happened. So my first question... Should the plastic strips covering the tar on a new shingle be removed before nailing the shingle down? My next question has to do with tar paper. When the roofer came to replace my 15 shingles I don't believe he replaced a 2ft by 5 ft strip of tar paper that came off near the ridge. Can you lay shingles directly to bare wood and expect it not to leak? I think that I may be done with this roofer. He has an excuse for everything, and it's obvious that he has no pride in his work. Thanks for your thoughts, cheers - Mike