Shingling A Roof

Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm.

Shingling a roof.

Nail each side of the shingle to each side of the ridge just below the shingles self sealing strip. Keep this up until you reach the other end of the peak. Your last shingle is an exposed shingle. Use your chalk and tape measure to mark about 12 inches up on the roof for the first set of shingles.

Required tools for this how to shingle a roof project chalk line hammer roof harness utility knife. Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges. Asphalt roofing shingles simply rely on the force of gravity to shed water from rain or snow melt. Install the next shingle approximately 2 3 past the seal strip of the first shingle.

Starting at the bottom of the roof map out a guideline with chalk. If the roof shingles and all accessory roof components are arranged and overlapped with this in mind the roof should successfully shed water. So instead the whole roof was removed and the decking was being replaced. Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof.

Place the first shingle end flush to the edge of the roof. However the plywood sheathing underneath the shingles was beginning to fail. In the dictionary to shingle is defined as to lay out or arrange so as to overlap. Continue laying roof shingles aligning the top edges with the horizontal chalk lines and the ends with the vertical chalk lines to create the proper 6 inch offset.

Remove existing roof and underlayment the original plan was to preserve a portion of the existing roof since the shingles still had some life left in them. Snap vertical layout lines every 6 inches across the roof.