How To Pulley Shingles Onto Roof

All the ladder lifts i saw on youtube were too labor intensive and so i designed my own with stuff i had around the house.

How to pulley shingles onto roof.

Start on the lower edge of the roof install the starter shingles by nailing them down using roofing nails. You ll also want a knife or scissors handy for adjusting the size of a shingle to fit in certain areas like the corner of a roof. Ensure that each cap overlaps the one below it by 1 4 inch 7 cm. Nail each side of the cap shingle into the roof.

Install the roof shingles. It took about 90 minutes to make. I loaded a stack of shingles on the wood board and then as i pulled the rope pulley the board with. I placed a temporary pulley up on the roof top.

Place the ridge cap shingles over the roof ridges. Finally the preparation is over you can now install the shingles. One man stays in the truck loading shingles onto the belt while another is stationed on the roof offloading the supplies as they are carried up by the moving belt. Chalk line helps with outlining straight edges to evenly lay down shingles.

I m ready to shingle another house. But i m now 71 and not up to manhandling shingles onto the roof. Make your own pulley system to get 72 bundles of roofing shingles up to roof top 1 2 story house the supplier i am buying from doesent deliver saving 400 even after i rent a truck to pick them up but my back is not what it used to be. How to get shingles on your roof easily.

Essentially this system is one where a conveyer belt on a rigid platform extends directly from a truck up to the roof. Place and nail the shingles from the bottom of the roof to the top. Roofing nails are for securing asphalt shingles in place as opposed to regular nails that aren t always strong enough.