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• Cause and Repair of Asphalt roof shingle splices, photographs

This document is a chapter on an unusual asphalt shingle product defect: spliced asphalt roofing shingles. This forms part of our larger set of articles which tell readers how to identify & explain the most-common asphalt roof shingle failures and how to obtain asphalt roofing shingle failure claims assistance.

By listing common causes of asphalt roof shingle failures and how to recognize them, building owners and roofing contractors may also be able to reduce the occurrence of asphalt roof shingle storage, handling, and installation errors that affect roof life. Readers are also invited contribute roof failure information to the web author for research purposes. web author for research purposes. © Copyright 2008 Daniel Friedman, All Rights Reserved. Information Accuracy & Bias Pledge is at below-left. Use links at the left of each page to navigate this document or to view other topics at this website. Green links show where you are in our document or website.

Asphalt Shingle Splices

Splice Shingles used to keep material moving during the manufacturing process should be discarded but they almost always end up installed on the roof. Spliced asphalt shingles are a factory defect - and were not supposed to have been installed.

The occurrence of spliced shingles on an asphalt shingle roof will be rare and multiple spliced-shingles quite rare. This defect is very unlikely to be a substantive roofing defect though if the splice is left un repaired a local leak and related water damage could occur.

I recommend simply replacing the damaged area with a new shingle. Temporary repair can be made by sliding a piece of metal flashing under the damaged area.

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