How To Repair A Hole In A Metal Roof

How to repair a hole in your metal roof.

How to repair a hole in a metal roof.

Cut a 4 inch square out of the sheet metal using the tin snips. Use the putty knife to fill the whole with putty cement. Use scissors to cut two pieces of acrylic mesh or wire mesh made of the same metal as your roof into a square that is 1 inch wider than the size of the first hole. Be sure to round the corners of the metal patch to prevent sharp corners from catching snow or ice.

Urethane roof cement is an excellent product that can help you patch holes on corrugated metal roofing. Obtain some roofing mesh and cut out 2 identical square patches. How to repair nail holes in a metal roof. Measure the repair area.

Next cut a patch from a sheet of metal roof panel slightly larger than the size of the hole that. Apply urethane caulk using the caulk gun to the back of the square of sheet metal and place it over the. 6 lay one of the mesh patches. Clean the repair area.

Press one patch over the roofing cement. The patch should overlap the metal panel on your roof by at least two inches past the edge of the damage. A hole in a metal roof system. Once you put the patch on you can t clean under the.

To repair the hole first clean the area you re going to need to repair. Measure the area that will be repaired and cut a sheet of metal to the corresponding size.