10/20/2026
Did your roofer forget to peel this off? 🤔
Customers ask me this all the time: "Did you take that little plastic strip off the back of the shingles before you nailed them down?"
Nope. And that's correct.
That strip has nothing to do with how your shingles stick. It's there for the packaging. Shingles get bundled face to face, and that strip sits right where the glue line hits the next shingle, so the whole bundle doesn't fuse into one brick on the pallet.
On the roof, the sun heats the sealant strip and it bonds the shingle above it. The plastic strip stays put and doesn't get in the way.
So now you know. 🏠
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