Anyone make a heated roller for roofing?

Hey all
I just 'shingled' my garage with 3 tab Owens Corning Supreme as siding. Rationale was that the color matched the brick of the house pretty well and I couldn't afford to put a brick veneer on the garage...enough said.

Anyway, hanging vertically it's a pita to get them bonded with the course below via the seal strip and I don't have the time to do them all with the heat gun. Does anyone make a heated roller that you can use to seal these things down? I'm concerned that the longer they aren't sealed the more likely they are to break off.

Looking for something that will help me to get these sealed down (cured) before winter blows in....which isn't too far away.

I'll post up a pic later so you can see what it looks like.

Thanks

Steve

I'm not sure I could do the whole garage with a heat gun, it's completely (or will be) covered in shingles.

steve

Hogwildz said:

Hope you mailed them really well. Chances are they may come off anyway. Ain't made for vertical installation. The weight of the shingles alone can cause them to tear around the nails.
Hope they hold up for you.

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I did a typical nailing pattern on them. Shingles were actually applied quite frequently years ago, there are still several houses in my neighborhood with shingles installed in the gables and around dormers where I assume once there was cedar. Out in the rural areas where I grew up it was common to see garages covered in asphalt roofing material of different types.

My main concern is getting the shingles to bond to one another efficiently. A heat gun would take forever for this process and hanging vertically they never will bond without assistance. If I can get them to bond then the likelihood of the siding staying in place would be far greater over the long term.

Looks like I'm going to have to invent something to help with the bonding situation

thanks

steve

pen said:

I just can't get the ill-fated image of you up on a ladder w/ a torpedo heater trying to get this done.

I understand your frustration, no matter what you try, just double check yourself and make sure what you are attempting is a good idea rather than one out of frustration and determination!

All you need is one sunny summer day! Certainly can be frustrating.

pen

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haha....torpedo on a ladder. I have one but wouldn't dare lug it up on a rickety ladder to get this done. I have plenty of sun, but that does no good since there needs to be reasonable pressure applied along with the heat. I could get by on the south and west with a simple roller if the sun were out in full force, but on the north and east it's a different story. The east is blocked by the house for most of the day, the north is bad for obvious reasons.

A friend of mine built an infrared heating element for stripping paint from wood trim. I've contacted her about borrowing it and I'll work up something to mount it to a roller so I can push the thing across the surface heating the surface and then forcing it down.

I've hand pressed some on the south when it's sunny out and it seems to work ok, but our temps are going to be dropping some so I think the heating assembly will be necessary. On the ones I used the heat gun it worked solidly but only by lifting and directly heating the seal strip

We'll see how this goes!

steve