Okay, I cannot tell a lie. Every now and again, I like to leave the molding details and brain-surgery framing my remodeling projects always seem to call for and blast off on a simple shingle roof. I'm always a little happy when I roll out tar paper and pepper it with a million staples from my hammer tacker. My project is getting dried in and protected.
However, if I can't get to installing the shingles right away, I'd better have used cap nails instead of staples. Otherwise the first super cell to come through might tear off the tar paper in sheets, and we can't have that. Of course, I don't roof enough to warrant owning a cap nailer, so I'm stuck — unless I have the new and cool looking Stinger CH38 Cap Hammer.
The Stinger is a combo hammer tacker/cap nailer. Staples and caps are collated so that one whack onto the roof deck dispenses both about as fast as you can move. The Stinger also looks sweet for slapping on house wrap. Again, the large surface area of the caps provide the ideal holding power to keep the house wrap in place before the siding goes up.
The Stinger weighs 2.6-pounds, holds 168 1-inch caps and staples and, at about the same price as a hammer tacker, I can easily justify the purchase. After all, I'm going to have to head back to those molding and framing details sooner or later.
National Nail Corp.
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