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Jeff Avitabile on 29 Mar Trends in Roofing Underlayment Thank you for your comment Norm. We haven't seen wrinkling or underlayment that may not be completely flat causing the situations that you mentioned,
Norm on 28 Mar Trends in Roofing Underlayment Installation instructions for GAF's FeltBuster synthetic underlayment indicate to "install without wrinkles". The obvious reason why wrinkles must be eliminated is to avoid telegraphing […]
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Thank you for your comment Norm. We haven't seen wrinkling or underlayment that may not be completely flat causing the situations that you mentioned,
Installation instructions for GAF's FeltBuster synthetic underlayment indicate to "install without wrinkles". The obvious reason why wrinkles must be eliminated is to avoid telegraphing […]