How To Put Shingles On Your Roof

Both step shingling and racking will yield a watertight roof.

How to put shingles on your roof.

Center a minimum 610 mm 24 wide minimum 28 gauge pre finished galvanized metal valley liner in the valley and fasten with only enough nails to hold it in place nailing at the edges only. Remove old shingles and. After completing a column the roofer can go back down to the eave edge of the roof and start laying the next column of shingles. Preparing the roof 1.

This will help determine how the shingles will lay on the. Pattern curling and shadowing color blending. To lay out the design for the shingles begin at the bottom of the roof and place a tape measure inch from the edge of the roof to ensure the shingles overhang the drip edge. Starting at the bottom of the roof map out a guideline with chalk.

Snap a horizontal chalk line over the starting row to use as a guide. Cut six inches off the length of the first starter shingle nailed on then use the rest of them full size. Continue to chalk additional guidelines based on the width of the shingle through at least four courses rows across. Measure the length of a shingle as it lies across the roof.

Overlap each metal piece by at least 150 mm 6 and use asphalt plastic cement under each section of overlap. It generally takes three bundles of shingles to cover 100 square feet. You won t void your warranty by going with the racking method but with some manufacturers you d have trouble collecting a settlement on two specific problems. Lay the first row of shingles directly covering the narrow starter row.

Mark 12 inches up on the roof for the first course of shingles then mark every 5 inches all the way up the roof to set your reveal.