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Let me start off with saying I'm not too experienced with roof repair. A few weeks ago, I noticed the corner of my roof's overhang was collapsing, so I finally decided to address my admittedly bad roof. I got up there and started tearing away the rot and discovered my roof is asphalt shingles...

Yeah, I had to squeeze the pans to get them out of the valence retainers. Then I noticed the tabs on the pans at each of the other retainer, bent those in and then bent the ends upward to free them from the mounting bar and they all slid right out. It'd be pretty cool seeing how they used to...

Thank you for that manual, it did help me remove the top pans. But I'm now stuck trying to figure out how to remove the bottom pans on my awning. This part is quite different from the one in the manual. Here's some pics that show how the lower pans are retained. The members that retain the...

On my patio I have an aluminum awning that was installed in the late 1950s. It looks exactly like this but much larger: https://superiorawning.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/sa_alumawninggallery18.jpg I need to temporarily remove a bunch of the vertical slats to make room for a ladder so I can...