Jobsites - Fast Felt® Installation Examples

• FLORIDA               Spring, 2006         Various Slopes on Large Roof                                  QuickTime (27MB)   |  Windows (7MB)
• Note to the Florida video in the link above:    The movie portions of the above referenced video were taken on our digital camera and are the amateur video clips of a real Fast Felt® roofing underlayment installation job.  A production studio professionally edited them for presentation purposes.  This was the post-hurricane damage re-roof of an approximate 800 condominium unit club house  building.  This was part of the roofing crew's first experience installing Fast Felt®.  Many members of the roofing crew really appreciated the ease of installation, specifically no crawling around on the roof and no handling of tin caps which cut their fingers and hands.  At the lunch hour, crew members said they were less fatigued because of the mimimal physical bending over that was required to install Fast Felt®..

• TEXAS                    November, 2007     Steep Slopes on a Windy Hillside in Austin
• Other Texas Fast Felt® installations we have observed: Brenham, Amarillo and Houston. In Brenham, the Fast Felt® product was installed on the complicated and varied sloped roof of a house located on the top of a hill and left open to the weather for approximately 2 weeks.  The constant wind shears over this two week time period caused no material tearing of the felt underlayment.  In Amarillo, we observed a late-Fall (upper 30° F, windy, overcast) installation on a median income duplex low-slope re-roof.  The roofing contractor realized that the secure performance of the Fast Felt® would result in savings that he does not usually quantify but are savings nonetheless.  These would include (a) no "re-trading ground" repairing felt ripped during the overnight changes in wind, (b) reduced jobsite clean-up of plastic cap/nail combo fasteners and (c) reduced physical stresses on the roofing crew during installation.  In Houston, Fast Felt® was used as a house wrap under redwood shakes.  The objective was to get a heavy felt, quicker to install, under the wood shakes.
• TEXAS     -     August 2009     Re-roof of a building within 100 miles of the Gulf Coast

                                Look at the type of corroded tin caps that were found under the old roof covering:

• SOUTH CAROLINA    April, 2008            Steep Slope Re-Roof Before a Heavy Rain
• Note to your review of this jobsite:  The use of the Spanish version our video and having a pre-installation inspection of the Fast Felt® product was instrumental in the training of this roofing installation crew.  The crew practiced nailing the Fast Felt® tabs to a scrap piece of 2" by 6" lumber, placed on the ground, and used this nailing practice to set the correct pressures on each nail gun used in the underlayment installation.  We also had Spanish speaking members present for specific questions and/or explanations.  We ran the video or parts of the video 3-4 times during the pre-installation training.  For 4 crew members, the training did not last longer than 15-20 minutes.