InterNACHI Field Guide for the Inspection of Wood Roofs

InterNACHI Field Guide for the Inspection of Wood Roofs

This is a PDF download, not a book. You will receive a link via email to download the PDF after purchasing.

Written by Kenton Shepard, author of InterNACHI’s Certified Roof Inspector course.

This 34 page field guide , containing over 55 photographs, illustrations and diagrams, and is meant to be used as a tool to help identify problems with wood shake & shingle roofs. Content covers:

• standards and warranties
• types of shakes and shingles
• installation- proper and improper
• aging characteristics
• wind & hail damage
• biological growth
• hail damage
• end of useful life

Table of Contents
Performance standards/warranties, 1
Shake and shingle grading, 2
Manufacturing and application standards, 2
Wood species, 3
Grain exposures, 4
Installation details, 6
Underlayment/interlayment, 10
Flashing, 13
• Headwall, 11
• Sidewall, 11
• Kickout, 13
• Vent, 1
Fastener defects, 16
Moisture, 19
• Discoloration, 19
• Extractive bleeding, 20
• Decay, 20
• Loss of extractives, 23
• Erosion, 24
• Distortion, 24
Splitting 27
Hail, 29
Biological growth, 32
End of useful life, 33

***PDF is 75 MB in size, so allow some time for the download to occur. We STRONGLY recommend that you do this on a high speed internet connection.