How To Remove Roof Tiles With Nails

Go down to the next row and loosen it.

How to remove roof tiles with nails. This maneuver will help to remove the piles together with nails. If the nail is proving difficult the tool will cut through the nail. If you do not have a scraper use a garden spade with a flat blade to hook the tiles underneath. Work your way through the top row of tiles weakening and pulling them.

Begin by lifting up the next door overlapping tile. This will lift the overlapping tiles on the row above so the tile you want to remove should come out easily. The force of the hammer is usually enough to. Remove tiles from the roof ridge first.

The steel blade slips under the tile until one of the barbs of the arrow shaped tip hooks round the nail that is driven into the roof batten. Removing a tile from the roof. If your tiles aren t lifting they may have nails holding them in place. Once engaged pull out the nail by pulling down on the tool or giving a hammer blow on the curved handle.